Two days at once

[hawkwing_lb]

06-06-06

More sun today. I'm going brown in patches, but if this keeps up I'll be getting sick. The rockpools down on the shore are teeming with life: crabs and tiny flat fish and strange long-bodied antenaed things less than the length of my finger joint. Death and life and life and death, all within millimetres of each other.

Got the first line of a short story, too. On the Ile de Rien, in the Oceans of Night, the powers that were upheld the status quo with fire and steel and casual disregard for anyone who happened to be in their way.

I have chunks of ice melting in a bowl on my desk, in the hopes that that'll help keep the room a bit cooler than it was yesterday evening. Country like Ireland, you don't get a/c in private houses, and we don't have so much as a fan.

Weather like we have this week, feels like that might have been a bit of an oversight.

07/06/06

It's clouded over today, but it looks more like heavy heat mist than cloud from here. I'm off to town. The Lies of Locke Lamora is in at Waterstone's. Hopefully it won't heat up too insanely before I get back.

If the sun comes out again, I can sip cool drinks and sit in the shade reading my new book. Whee!

Comments

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

So, what's the temperature then? 22 degrees? ;-)

The bowl of ice is helpful, but if you really want to cool off, you really need at least a fan -- even a small one that stands on a table or desk. I lived in the Caribbean without a/c, at temperatures that rarely dipped down to 27 degrees C (and that was on a cold winter night). A fan blowing towards me, and a wet washcloth -- ah, that was heavenly. I could actually get chills.

Those were the days, so they were. I hated them. Me, living in the summer for an endless two years? Never any winter? Now you know why I have a soft spot for Jadis. ;-)