It's hot, so unbelievably fucking hot at 3AM. Especially considering that I was wearing a sweater and warm socks just last monday. Now it's 3AM and I've got the window open and I'm sitting here in just boxershorts and a shirt. I can't sleep because of the heat, even though I'm moderately tired and now I'm just trying to keep busy until the temperature finally shows any inclination of dropping.
My roommates were bitching about the bugs again, and they refuse to keep their windows open after sundown. This means that there has been no airflow through the house since it reached well past 25 degrees this afternoon. The mosquitoes don't bother me, they have no appetite for my odour and their buzzing doesnt really get to me either. But my two flatmates are each bothered by one of those. The window issue led to a couple of fights last year, but we finally resolved to screen off some windows, unfortunately we were too lax to do the other ones.
The heat is very damp and clammy, it has rained probably over 10 times today, usually for less than 10 minutes and it dried up almost immediately. Not a good atmosphere to exercise, but of course I had made plans already and I went rowing. I rowed in my single for an hour and I was drenched in sweat for 59 minutes of it. So much sweat came running off my head that it trickled past my eyebrows and eyes making me appear to cry.
I considered taking a dive in the channel I'm rowing on, but I encountered so much debris and weird foamy stuff that I decided not to risk my precious health. In a couple of weeks the average temperature of the channel will have risen so high again that the water-authority will start placing signs warning about harmful algae in the water. These will probably be hung right next to the signs warning NOT to touch our mutant fish, especially if they've got more than two heads.
It would probably be better to steer clear of the place entirely, but there's no other place to be on the water, and I need to be on water as much as I need to drink it. It's probably some genetic mutation too...