hah--take that you silly hot weather!

I've been having fond memories of my nice, cold house in Tassie. You know the one, where I needed to sit upon an electric blanket, whilst wearing tights, heavy skirt, wool slippers, long sleeved shirt, a heavy wool sweater, and a heavy wool blanket in order to cuddle up to my nice, heat generating computer in order to do my uni work? Yah, that one. Sounds pretty good lately.

Milan, in the summer, is amazingly constant in temperature. Unlike many places I've been where hot days are followed by cold nights, Milan just holds reasonably steady. Day time highs in the low 30's, followed by night time lows in the high 20's. Here, were it not for the mosquitoes, clothing would be optional. (If I take an icy cold shower to lower my body temp the mosquitoes leave me alone for a while, so I don't need to get dressed straight away afterwards--this is a good thing, since I like the part where I'm not hot.)

I've largely adapted to the heat, save for the part where my heat-generating computer makes me want to be somewhere, anywhere else. I am getting far less accomplished each day than I used to do in Tassie as a result of fleeing the computer for a chunk of each day. But, despite that challenge, this evening I sent off a draft of a paper for publication to my advisor in Tassie, so progress is being made, in the tiny number of hours I've been working. But I'm looking forward to the summer's end and temperatures cool enough to make cuddling with my computer for hours on end look attractive once again.

hah--take that you silly hot weather!

I've been having fond memories of my nice, cold house in Tassie. You know the one, where I needed to sit upon an electric blanket, whilst wearing tights, heavy skirt, wool slippers, long sleeved shirt, a heavy wool sweater, and a heavy wool blanket in order to cuddle up to my nice, heat generating computer in order to do my uni work? Yah, that one. Sounds pretty good lately.

Milan, in the summer, is amazingly constant in temperature. Unlike many places I've been where hot days are followed by cold nights, Milan just holds reasonably steady. Day time highs in the low 30's, followed by night time lows in the high 20's. Here, were it not for the mosquitoes, clothing would be optional. (If I take an icy cold shower to lower my body temp the mosquitoes leave me alone for a while, so I don't need to get dressed straight away afterwards--this is a good thing, since I like the part where I'm not hot.)

I've largely adapted to the heat, save for the part where my heat-generating computer makes me want to be somewhere, anywhere else. I am getting far less accomplished each day than I used to do in Tassie as a result of fleeing the computer for a chunk of each day. But, despite that challenge, this evening I sent off a draft of a paper for publication to my advisor in Tassie, so progress is being made, in the tiny number of hours I've been working. But I'm looking forward to the summer's end and temperatures cool enough to make cuddling with my computer for hours on end look attractive once again.