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Been a strange, nerve-jangly sort of day.

I missed a lecture because there were no fucking buses for 40 minutes. I know I could've turned up late but I was all wound up by then, and I can catch up because the lectures and slides are recorded.

We got the orange sun around lunchtime, it's clear and sunny here now (though still with particles of dust in the air hurting my eyes) but it's gone down south where a million more people are tweeting about it, and a million freaked-out status updates on Facebook and bad-joke tweets haven't helped somehow. That we feel such a sense of impending doom at such a minor change in the quality of the light makes it easy to see why humans had to invent religion.

I didn't feel doomy but I was also pretty sure it was something to do with the hurricane, and the hurricane is because of climate change and that make terrified and so miserable. My anxious brain told me "One day we'll look back on these as the good old days, weather-wise," because my anxious brain hates me.

I slept awfully last night. Went to bed early, woke up after midnight and didnt get back to sleep until five in the morning.

Andrew emailed while I was out saying the washing machine is broken, he thinks he can fix it but I'll need to help. But when I got back home he's out, so I'm sitting here writing this instead. I hope the washing machine's okay, we can't afford it not to be. Don't know where he is, but I think he was going to buy food. And I thought of something on my way home that I wanted but I forgot to tell him to get.

The people next door are having building work done on their house, and the loud whine of the drills makes it hard to concentrate or relax.

I need a hug or a cry or a sleep or a vacation. But none of those things seem like they'd be enough really.

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Date: 2017-10-16 03:41 pm (UTC)
worlds_of_smoke: A picture of a brilliantly colored waterfall cascading into a river (Default)
From: [personal profile] worlds_of_smoke
Well, hurricanes hitting the UK isn't unheard of. So this could just be a fluke instead of CLIMATE CHANGE DOOM.

-offers hugs for everything else-

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Date: 2017-10-16 04:37 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] angelofthenorth
Hugs

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Date: 2017-10-16 05:32 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sfred
:-( xx

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Date: 2017-10-16 05:45 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] benicek
I was quite impressed by the sudden red darkness and I thought it would be followed by cathartic wind and rain...but nothing.

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Date: 2017-10-16 07:03 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] barakta
Erk, sympathies. Hoping washing machine is OK and you can recoup some spoons soonest!

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Date: 2017-10-16 08:32 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sir_guinglain
Good to see.

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Date: 2017-10-16 11:33 pm (UTC)
barakta: (Default)
From: [personal profile] barakta
Phew indeed! Well done you both.

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Date: 2017-10-17 07:33 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] quantumcupcakes
I found the red sun and the sky colour to be beautiful but yes, that sense of doom was rather all encompassing. And I think these events, social media and the instant connectedness of everything make it seem even more so. Spreads the mass hysteria.
I'm definitely glad we live further inland than when we did, the wind and waves here were insane.

I hope the washing machine is ok.

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