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Jul. 7th, 2010 04:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cblj_backupIt's hot here. Hot as fuck. Hotter than fuck. Fuck can only dream of being this hot. Mum sent me an email saying that she saw a news report about the possibility of rain in Chicago, but I think the rain decided Chicago was too hot and detoured.
There is no breeze, there is no shade, there is no God.
But then I think about the fact that this heat will end by no later than September, while it is a year-round function in Austin, and I'm okay. When I moved to Chicago I noticed that the primary topic of small talk here was the weather, which makes sense in retrospect. There's no point in talking about the weather in Austin (hot) or Oregon (wet) or California (mild) because it's always the same, but here the weather is a neverending variable.
They say the motto of Chicago is "Urbs In Horto" which means "City in a garden" but I suspect the real motto is Et Hoc Transibit: THIS TOO SHALL PASS.
It might be Adfatimne calidus est prote, "Hot enough for you?"
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jenna_thorn has tips on how to stay safe and stay cool.
There is no breeze, there is no shade, there is no God.
But then I think about the fact that this heat will end by no later than September, while it is a year-round function in Austin, and I'm okay. When I moved to Chicago I noticed that the primary topic of small talk here was the weather, which makes sense in retrospect. There's no point in talking about the weather in Austin (hot) or Oregon (wet) or California (mild) because it's always the same, but here the weather is a neverending variable.
They say the motto of Chicago is "Urbs In Horto" which means "City in a garden" but I suspect the real motto is Et Hoc Transibit: THIS TOO SHALL PASS.
It might be Adfatimne calidus est prote, "Hot enough for you?"
Appropriately,
jenna_thorn has tips on how to stay safe and stay cool.
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Date: 2010-07-08 01:01 am (UTC)Towns were running out of water. It was particularly bad outside the city/coastal areas, but even around here... Toowoomba in South East Queensland held a referendum on using (well-)treated sewerage water as the town supply. They're still very low on water, but I don't know that they've gone that route. It got pretty scary crop-wise about five years back, but we got just enough to sustain...
Dam levels around here are pretty high now, so Brisbane is ok.
:)
Jaydeyn
*nods*
Date: 2010-07-08 01:32 am (UTC)Brisbane, huh? Home of the ex-pat internet-famous Ben Croshaw. XD
Re: *nods*
Date: 2010-07-08 01:44 am (UTC)Must confess that I had to Google him! Hm. The Mana Bar, eh? That looks like fun!
:)
Jaydeyn