Small talk

Good morning.

It's not morning.

I hate small talk, because in the end it's pretty useless. It's just words, that don't really matter, that's only purpose is avoiding awkward silences. People in Finland, I've heard, do less small talk than people in other countries. I'm thinking maybe that's because in Finland we're so antisocial, that silences aren't awkward, or at least talking would be even more awkward.

Today, even though I already said I do not like small talk, I'll talk about a topic that is in the very center of small talk: weather.
And probably some other stuff that sprawls from there, we'll see.

It was warm in Finland in the end of May. Now it's not. I wrote about how temperatures in Finland seem to vary during the year way more than in many other places.
However, it seems that now we've had a warm winter and a cold summer. Meaning that the almost the whole winter was +5 °C and raining, and the whole June it's been +15 °C and raining.
So that's fun.

Though I heard a rumour that it should get warmer again in a week. But then again, in late spring I heard a rumour that it's going to be a very warm summer, and we haven't seen that so far, so who knows.

The problem with the cold is also that strawberries are apparently later than normally and smaller and probably more expensive, because they don't get to grow. Some weeks ago I read from somewhere that because is was so warm in the end of May, the strawberries are just almost ready, because they got a good early head start because of the sun and warmth, and once it gets warm again they'll be ready to eat in no time. But the warm never came, so now instead of doing really well, they're doing worse than usually.

Oh, you know what else than strawberries is good? Lemons!

And ice cream. I've felt like buying some ice cream for a while even though it's been cold, but I haven't quite gotten to it yet. Which is good, because it means that the idea of me not having any money is very deep inside me, which means that even though I'm making 3500 over the summer if I keep this pace up, I can use that money for something other than what ever I happen to feel like eating at the moment. Like travel, which I think is a way better use for my money than buying ice cream. The place I'd most want to go right now is probably Mauritius. Did I make a post about that some way back? I guess I have a thing for biological hotspots. You know, places that are completely isolated from the rest of the world, that the animals and plants are completely different than anywhere else. Well, at least until human being come with their cats and rats and pigs, and eat all the dodos away.

Anyway.

I'd also really like to go to Malta, which would be way closer than Mauritius, and Brazil. And, you know, a bunch of other places. But those most. Also, New Zealand. Some places in Asia might be cool too.

... How did I get here?

During the last couple of weeks I've read more books. The Raw Shark Texts, Flowers for Algernon and Fahrenheit 451. It turns out that I don't like dystopian classics too much, because the language is somehow weird. Though it might also be that it's just the translation that makes them sound weird (yeah, I read then in Finnish because I borrowed then from a friend), because I really like 1984.
The Raw Shark Texts isn't a dystopian, and that one I liked best of the three. That might be partly because my brief studies in the field of journalism and communication during the last year, because the traces people leave by communicating were in a central role in the story.

Also during the last couple of weeks I've watched Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog through like twice, and listened to the soundtrack a few times, and had it (the whole, not just the soundtrack) play on the background while working some day. Simply because Neil Patrick Harris can sing so well.

Ok, that's probably enough of saying nothing for today. Next week I'll be cooking on a protu, so I'll have to write the post beforehand. So don't be confused if it's already up there, scheduled, on Friday.

~matu