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My family's having DRAMAH at the moment, which fortunately I am far removed from, but it is wearying to have to come up with appropriately soothing and comforting but non-authoritarian things to say about it to the concerned parties (for once, none of them are Bernard, miracle of miracles).

I wasn't terribly interested in the drama the first time round so I'm not going to recount it here or anything, but my temper's a bit short today. That can be a good thing; it means I'm capable of reminding my family that I do indeed have opinions about their behaviour, I just have better manners than to express them quite so freely as they do. There is a certain satisfaction in saying, "This upsets me" and getting shocked silence back, as if they'd forgotten that their actions have consequences. It's probably quite petty of me, but it's not like they don't need reminding, so it might as well be enjoyable for someone.

I do love them. I just get on so much better with them when we live in separate states.

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THIS HEAT IS UNREAL. I HAVE HEAT RAGE.

Seriously, I know it gets hot in Chicago in the summer but this is just stupid. Especially for June. I might put up with this bullshit in August, because I have never lived anywhere that had a pleasant August, August is a loser month with no holidays and horrible weather.

Why are we having August in June? Walking home I actually felt my IQ drop from the heat. The only reason I'm capable of using the shift key at the moment is that I'm sitting directly in front of my air conditioner. If I walk into the kitchen (where the bread is sitting on the counter quietly toasting itself) I forget how to use multisyllabic words. I'm pretty sure some of the furniture in the living room is melting.

ARGH HEAT.