Welcome to Mt Clare

Ah, it's a perfectly cool summer day, the sun shining gently and a cool breeze is making it feel like a sky of happy faces is smiling down upon us.

Actually, I'm lying. God has turned on the microwave and accidently set it to 'apocalypse'. The trees are perfectly still as all the heat sits on us, with absolutely no breeze taking any heat away from out already overheated and painfully clammy bodies. This is why I hate the summer, I hate the heat, and I hate this entire half of the year, because even in England, there are days where the heat is unbearable and horribly uncomfortable, meaning that I cannot even sit in a dark room alone at a computer as it is too hot, and I am practically forced to go outside, meaning the donning of sunglasses just so my eyes aren't totally closed while driving.

I hate hot. Hate. I put 'hate' in a new sentence because it needed a capital letter and I wanted to remain grammatical.

I am now in Mount Clare, another version of Hell. In fact, I can think of very little worse than being in Mount Clare on a hot day. But to ease my pain, I'm with Mizuki, Kaori and Emma. They're getting up from their computers now, so now I feel I must end my blog horribly prematurely. But let me just let you know that had it not been for those three these past few days would have been intolerable enough for me to not actually leave my house at all. The combination of heat and general dampening of emotions, coupled with the sudden introduction of a £540 loan repayment, means that things hadn't been too peachy for the past few days. But it's been good to spend time with them again.

I haven't seen Jenny or Carlos properly for a few days. Maybe it's because I'm not nocturnal anymore, but I miss seeing them. Days should be longer. I have been getting up at a good hour again, except for today, when I had a lie in until 10AM. Wow, rebel, look at me go.

I haven't had the chance to train so much the past few days. Today has been the first day we didn't see Shouty and Katou (it turns out his name was this, rather than Katto). Shouty flew home yesterday, but we waved him off from Hammersmith tube station. It was really sad to see him go. We'll still see Katou a lot though, and I'm sure we'll keep learning each other's language.
After saying goodbye yesterday, I went shopping with the everyone and Yukina bought all the Nabe food. Green Day is on Sunday, rather than Saturday, so I can go to the Nabe on Saturday, which I hope isn't inconvenient to the amount of food purchased. Sunday is set to be 31°C, and that's 3 degrees worse than today, being only 28°C. Wonderful. Apparently, in a few days it will by muggy. The day after, it will be tuggy. After that, weggy and thurggy. Etc. That's one of my father's oldest jokes.

Today we went to pay the first month of our rent and the deposit, which for me was about £860, but at least I get a lot of that back later. I should be getting my Whitelands damage deposit back in July, which should help me out, at least a little, for my trip.

Speaking of my trip, it's looking like it will be something like eight million degrees or something. Hooray. I'll have to survive. Speaking of surviving, I rediscovered BitTorrents, which are my rediscovered lifeblood. Unblocked ports means that I can download as much illegal stuff as I want. I love it. Tsubasa Chronicle is my first port of call, as well as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy film, though I have the TV show and the radio show available to me as well, which I might go for.

Anyway, it's good to be watching 24 with Becky again. It's so great. Series two is getting exciting again after a very brief lapse after the key event in the middle of the show.