Too Hot

Just as I hear Britain is getting its first winter freeze, Australia is getting its first scorching days. It's 35° in the shade as I speak, same as yesterday, and this is just the beginning. The butter (for example), which I keep at the back of a cool cupboard downstairs in the kitchen, is liquid. If I hadn't used a butter dish it would be covering the floor.

Although we have air-con, it's expensive to keep it on max all day, so I spent yesterday in the university library, which has powerful air-con keeping the whole building pleasant. The only problem lay in getting to Uni without getting burnt, hiding in the shadows and running for cover etc. The evening was worse, when the Library closed I had to get home with heat coming at me in two directions: directly from above, and radiated from the superheated ground below.

Nighttime is also hot, but without direct sunlight, so almost bearable. I might become nocturnal during the summer just to sleep through the heat, drinking a lot of iced coffee, iced tea, and beer.

I still have one exam left before my holidays start, and a report due December 1st (which is so far after everyone else has started their holidays it's not even funny, and I have some sort of mental block preventing me from doing it until the last minute). Electromagnetic Compatibility (my last exam, tomorrow) I expect to do well on, involving a lot of speculation and opinion, and less memorising formulae. Did pretty well in the assignments too. As soon as that's out of the way, well lots of plans are already being formed on how best to start the holidays.

Most involve sea and sand.