I am suffocating.
It is hot.
So hot.
Ég dey..

Sharp witted readers will have understood by now that weather here is warm, very warm.. which I generally regard as being good weather, but this is almost too good. It will take time for an icy hearted bloke like myself to get used to this, as it all happened so quickly. Just now, right before the weekend, this incessant and ever-growing heat struck the area, and it is not only here in Bratislava as I was in Wien (Austria) on Saturday and there the weather was incredibly warm as well. I am suffocating. Not only during the day, I sweat through the nights too.

I was visited by my mother and my friend Arnar on April 28, and they stayed with me until this afternoon. This weather (in addition to the prices of food, alcohol, and clothes) made them very happy. They melted the ice off themselves, sitting at every opportunity in the blazing sun enjoying meals and drinks.. I, on the other hand, preferred the shade. I understand them completely, they had just come from Iceland and found the heat here refreshing, but I have been living in the mid-European atmosphere for a while now and to me this heat was bordering on the unbearable. I also had a tough time trying to keep up with them in the consumption of alcohol. I found, as I usually find in the company of drinkers, that I handle less alcohol than the average drinker, and that the fun wears off drinking as soon as the state of tipsiness dissolves and becomes the state of drunkenness. Beyond that point suffering tends to step in.. tiredness, sickness, gloominess, and different kinds of different -nesses.
However, drinkers such as my mother, and especially my friend Arnar, are the types of drinkers that seem able to consume endless amounts of alcohol without it losing the fun, and it goes down seemingly like water. I know other people who are like them in this.. but I am very different, and this I discover again and again. And it seems to me that I have no chance of ever being able to handle alcohol like the average drinker, or enjoy its consumption to the extent most people seem to do.

It is not a bad thing. It just differentiates me, noticeably..

Melting,
..kH