and one on shore

Tomorrow I am planning to bury myself in the (very very air-conditioned) library and revise like mad, but today it is too hot to think about medicine, so I am going to lie around and watch Princess Tutu and drink lychee juice and occasionally poke at my answers to the things-I-know fic meme and try to pretend that I am in the Arctic.

I forgot to buy lemonade, so my grand plan to spend tonight drinking port & lemonade cocktails and poking my fic has been threatened. We'll see if the heat dies down to the extent that I can bear the thought of leaving my room.

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My shopping list for tomorrow is:

- soda water
- ice cube tray
- orange juice

This is because I have a bottle of red wine which highlyeccentric gave me last year, but looking at it and thinking about drinking anything that is not at least COLD makes me want to cry. So I'm going to be improvising some sangria. Anybody got any secret ingredients to recommend?

My wish list at this moment is:

- a vat of liquid nitrogen into which I could plunge my mugs of to-be-iced-tea, so that I don't have to wait two hours between making the tea and shoving it into the 'freezer' (part of the fridge. nominally colder. I am dubious.) and actually drinking it

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In the name of -- awareness-raising, I suppose? -- my country is having a pretty shocking time of it at the moment. We've been in a severe drought for over a decade, temperatures are soaring to ridiculous levels all over the place, and bushfire risk has pretty much never been higher. I can still remember driving back from the coast in a panic when Canberra had the fires of January 2003, because my family home backs onto bushland and we needed to be there to fight it in case embers hit the hill, and it's a pretty awful fear to be suffering through. So ... think good thoughts for those affected and those threatened, please?