Good morning.
About a month ago, I wrote a post about how it's cold. Now I'm going to write a post about how it's not. Simply because I'm pretty sure you don't know what the weather is like in Finland.
So, a while back (around New Year's, maybe?) my facebook main page was filled with how it's cold in northern US. Very, very cold. Meanwhile people in Finland and Alaska were like "Cold? Guys, it's raining out there."
We had a colder period in the end of October. I mentioned it, it had been a little colder for a week, and we had snow on the ground. The following day it started raining. And it rained. And rained. And rained. Until January. That was when the temperatures dropped again, down all the way to almost cold around -15 degrees Celsius. During the day time, that is. I had been cold for a couple of weeks when I complained about cold a month ago. That cold period lasted for like three weeks. Then the temperatures rose again, and now we're back to raining.
I heard a rumour (as in haven't seen it being said anywhere myself) that they're predicting that was all the cold for this winter.
So now it's apparently spring here. The lovely time when the days grow longer warmer, and the sun melts the snow, and birds start to sing and nature comes to life.
Or, you know, not.
It is raining. All the time. Or if not raining, then at least cloudy. The temperature stays at about zero, a degree or two above. In the nights I guess a little below. And it's February. And, as you know, in February in Finland, the days aren't exactly long yet. So the daylight hours are short, and the little light we get during that time is blocked behind what seems like and endless, thick blanket of clouds. There isn't even much snow left to reflect around what little does get down here. I don't remember anymore how long it's been since I've seen the sun the last time. The air is moist all the time, which makes everything feel cold and wet. And just cold (though not too much) is better than cold and wet.
That's that it's been like at least in southern Finland. It might be colder in Lapland.
Though I guess if it has to be this kind of weather some time, I guess it's good it's now. At the moment I'm spending my time studying, because I have set myself a goal: Get everything you can right now out of the way by the end of the month. Which means that during the next nine days I will read through over four hundred pages (just about 400 left!) on how politicians use media, and the freedom of speech, and notes worth almost 50 hours of lectures, and take four exams. And do a group work on communication in groups, but that's a small thing and won't take too many hours. Anyway, this means it doesn't matter too much what the weather is right now. So that's gonna be fun. And not at all impossible, since on five of those nine days I have literally nothing else to do. Well, I have capoeira training on two of those five, but that's at eight in the evening and if I've spent the whole day studying, I don't think I'll want to keep going after that anyway.
Also, all this means that when February turns to March, I'll only have a little left to do for school this spring. A five page essay, a dozen lectures of logic, some more group communication, and a class about argumentation that I don't really know much about yet. Which means I will have time to study for some other exams, so maybe this year they'll take me in to study something other than mathematics.
Today I was planning on writing about why sitting is bad for you, but then the weather started to depress me, and I figured you might be curious about what kind of winter we've had here, since it hasn't been exactly a typical one. Maybe I'll do the sitting thing next week. Or maybe I'll write about why the freedom of speech is important, since I'll spend the weekend studying that.
~matu
PS. Just because.
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