falling uphill

[the_siobhan]

So due to the pussies in the Ravonettes cancelling their show, I got to get in my introvert time in last night after all. Bliss.

(Does living in Toronto give me street cred now? "Yo' you think you Detroiters are tough with your drive-bys and your 8 Mile. Well, I live in Plague City!"

Can the Zombie Apocalypse be far behind?)

As a direct result of this, I can see the office floor and my to-do pile is all neatly filed in a single place waiting for action. It's not really any smaller, but being all in one place counts for something, right?

Right?

I also managed to go to the gym today, which makes me very happy and puts a big ol' dent in the I-hate-the-world mood I've been in lately. I found I can get my cardiac in if I stick to things I can hang onto, like bicycles and stairmasters. I crashed into the wall as soon as I got off the thing of course. But it's Toronto so I pretend like nothing happened and every body else pretends like they didn't notice.

I also came to the realization that it's been long enough since I've been in a smokey environment that any temporary environmental effects would have worn off by now. I'm finally going to have to quit kidding myself and face the fact that my lungs really are getting worse.

Well, I'm not happy about it by any means, but at the same time I know I'm getting off easy. I know people who have asthma attacks any time they do anything physically strenuous and I'm nowhere near that bad. So I'll try to stay out of smoke as much as I can, I'll talk to my doctor about it, and we'll see what happens.

I have to be one of the very few people who is looking forward to the non-smoking bylaw going universal next year.

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It's been very spring-like in Ontario for the last couple of weeks, going from clear and sunny to raining like a bastard and back again in a matter of hours. Everything alive in this corner of world is blindingly green, embarrassingly fertile and madly spunking all over the place.

Meanwhile, I've been reading all these posts from people on my friends list who live in England and there has been an awful lot of bitching going on about how hot it is over there. Out of curiosity, I went to the BBC weather page and looked up the current temperatures.

As a result, I have this to say to you.

Y'all are a bunch of pussies.

Some of you are coming to Toronto in August. You will be finding out exactly why it is that people in North America drink their beer so cold.

Comments

[fross.livejournal.com]

ai!

even though the temperature is only high 20s, we're stuck in London's own microcosm of oppressive humidity and general distastefulness which is making it seem far worse. and of course, aircon is practically non-existant.

friend of mine's office was 34C yesterday, which goes a bit further to show what the heat is actually like...

relative hell

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I think what you fail to realize is that while places that are choking for the middle-class consumer dollar -- like say, shopping malls and movie theatres -- are air conditioned to arctic proportions, places where reprobates like me hang out -- like say, clubs, or any place where anybody might actually work -- are air-conditioned with somewhat intermittant results.

I worked in a lab for a while where I was called to carpet because none of my experiments worked. I had to explain to the people who were supposedly experts in the field that the organisms I was working with were heated by the fermenters to a temperature of 37 degrees Celcius -- but there was no cooling mechanism in place and the lab was running at 45.

(I used to strip down to my knickers and a lab coat to survive my shifts there.)

PS

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Just be happy we didn't hold C8 in Montreal in July... ;->

Re: PS

[fross.livejournal.com]

yeah, all the igloos would have melted!

;)