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Axver said:
Nice. :up:



Much in the way of future plans, or soaking in the freedom for now?
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I'm taking a gap year to work and then I'm gonna go to grad school to study public policy. Right now I'm playing guitar and just enjoying freedom before I start work as a research assistant with a professor next week.
 
time to complain.

it's so freaking hot here (103f/39c). the worst part is, summer's only just started so it's gonna get hotter. plus, i've been in much hotter weather before. the issue is, my heat intolerance has gotten just awful. these two medications i'm on (one's to prevent migraines, the other is a sleeping pill) interact with each other and cause that sensitivity. no doctor seems to care, even when i specifically bring up the issue. hell, the last time i visited my doctor, i mentioned a non-medicinal (but still a prescription so it's not something homeopathic) alternative i could try to prevent migraines. but she'd never heard of it so therefore i couldn't take it, i guess. unless i want to go to a specialist...like geez.

it's so bad that when my boyfriend came home for lunch today (i'm off on fridays, he works), i had to ask him to drive me up to the leasing office so i could pick up packages we hadn't been able to go get since we'd both been working all week. just walking to/from the car made me so overheated. i've got the thermostat in here set at 65f/18c and i'm still miserable, even though i'm also sitting underneath a ceiling fan and drinking iced gatorade (thinking maybe i need to replenish my electrolytes). i've also got a terrible migraine, probably because of the heat. maybe because rain's coming.
 
We had rain this morning which helped a lot, but I'm still staying inside with the air conditioning as much as possible. My skin has gotten so sensitive now that if sweat sits on it, it gets irritated and I get a rash. And since I live in HUMIDITY LAND, sweat doesn't evaporate at all.

Strongly considering getting some of those cooling pads for menopausal women that fit inside the cups of your bra, since my underboob is the first place I get skin irritation. For now I've just been using Goldbond.
 
#Firstworldproblem:

Phone alarm goes off. Snooze it. Get up anyway. Quick email/messages check. Consider bringing the phone into the shower to listen to tunes. Decide to charge it instead.

Get in shower, shampoo goes on. Snooze cycle finishes. Have to complete shower with growing rage as the bastard alarm seems to get louder and louder. Consider fashioning a noose out of the shower curtain. Get out and turn off alarm.

Re-evaluate life. The end.
 
DreamOutLoud13 said:
We had rain this morning which helped a lot, but I'm still staying inside with the air conditioning as much as possible. My skin has gotten so sensitive now that if sweat sits on it, it gets irritated and I get a rash. And since I live in HUMIDITY LAND, sweat doesn't evaporate at all.

Strongly considering getting some of those cooling pads for menopausal women that fit inside the cups of your bra, since my underboob is the first place I get skin irritation. For now I've just been using Goldbond.
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yeah, it rained overnight or something here too and it's cooled down a lot (it's only 79, omg). the good thing though is i'm home alone today as my bf has gone out of town with a bunch of his friends who've driven down from huntsville to go to a doof, so i really have no need to go anywhere until tomorrow when i need to go to work.

my skin's like that, too. if i sweat (and i don't even sweat that much if i get hot), i get really itchy. it's not any better until i can bathe.
 
Off to Europe this afternoon for a conference and more concerts. Must it be summer there? Had to bloody go buy more shorts yesterday.
 
Axver said:
It's going to be 30+ while I'm in Zagreb! One day is forecast to be 35. Christ on a flying fucking bike.

Also, got off the plane at midnight in Dubai... to 34C. Oof.
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I'll let this speak for itself. We've had nothing but rain :/ It's not much of a summer at all, and the forecast for July doesn't look too promising.
 
I can handle that.

But my week in Croatia and Slovenia is definitely going to be an uncomfortably warm one.
 
I loved Boston when I spent a week there in 2005.

Well, that was a short but enjoyable visit to Copenhagen. Nice to see a different part of the city to what I had seen before, and Midnight Oil were amazing last night. Can't believe I got to see them in such a small setting, and I scored some of my favourites that they don't play much, like Hercules and Bullroarer. We got one of the longest sets of tour so far, 27 songs.

Now off to Zagreb for a week!
 
For my first act in Zagreb: tram fare evasion.

(Not on purpose! But they sure didn't make it obvious where or how to purchase a ticket.)
 
They really won't. Me and another Melburnian were busy criticising the standard of graffiti here last night.
 
Axver said:
I loved Boston when I spent a week there in 2005.

Well, that was a short but enjoyable visit to Copenhagen. Nice to see a different part of the city to what I had seen before, and Midnight Oil were amazing last night. Can't believe I got to see them in such a small setting, and I scored some of my favourites that they don't play much, like Hercules and Bullroarer. We got one of the longest sets of tour so far, 27 songs.

Now off to Zagreb for a week!
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Awesome man! Was hoping you'd get to go. They've really dug up some of their deeper tracks for this tour. I saw they opened Chicago by playing 10 to 1 straight through. I felt lucky to get Lucky Country at my one and only show in 2002. Had to miss them in Denver in May but funny enough they played it there too.

Edit: Looks like you got all of Species Deceases (love Progress), and the show before in Germany they played Diesel and Dust straight through.
 
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U2inUtah said:
Awesome man! Was hoping you'd get to go. They've really dug up some of their deeper tracks for this tour. I saw they opened Chicago by playing 10 to 1 straight through. I felt lucky to get Lucky Country at my one and only show in 2002. Had to miss them in Denver in May but funny enough they played it there too.

Edit: Looks like you got all of Species Deceases (love Progress), and the show before in Germany they played Diesel and Dust straight through.
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This tour's setlists are amazing. I'm not a hardcore fan by any means but it's the sort of thing that really tempts you to follow a band around. They were SO good too, incredibly tight and enthusiastic, like they'd been playing these songs non-stop for the last 15 years. I was very impressed.
 
coolian2 said:
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Oh I met Dr Yoshinori Ohsumi, the prof. who got Nobel Prize In Physiology or Medicine. i was actually visiting the different lab last year but his lab was nearby so i got to visit him. I talked to him for less than 10 minutes and he couldn't understand the difference between Michigan State and UMich for the whole time. however i met him BEFORE he got the prize and at that time i didnt expect him to win because CRISPR was (still is) huge and all that
 
So, I knew almost nothing about Slovenia a couple of days ago. Now I know it is pretty and lovely and deserves a return visit. The train ride from Zagreb to Ljubljana was pretty fun.

But oh boy then the train from Ljubljana to Vienna! That route is special. I can see why the Semmering mountain railway has world heritage listing. Vienna was just a convenient stopover—the city always seemed overhyped to me, but now I totally get it.

I'm on an ICE to Wiesbaden to finally see God Is an Astronaut live, and I'm super excited, but to be honest I really did not want to leave Vienna. What a place.
 
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