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[rhivolution]

Didn't get any work on my Festivids entry done today. Blast. I've only got maybe 50 seconds left to do...perhaps later. I don't suppose anyone might be interested in having a look at the rough draft when I'm done with it? Drop me a comment and we'll talk.

It's time for Matt to watch one of my films--he showed me The Big Lebowski, so he gets to see O Brother, Where Art Thou? We may be trying to get through a bunch of Coen stuff and Westerns before True Grit comes out. It's a hell of a lot better than what's on telly here tonight...no offence to the many of you who may watch X-Factor or American Idol, but that is so very not my thing. About as not my thing as Glee is.*

Meanwhile, on the weather front, there's been a thaw here that's run long and warm enough to melt EVERYTHING that had fallen. There isn't much else to say about it except that it was perfectly timed as the shops were running out of perishables thanks to frozen roads. And that I was tired of worrying that I would fall and break my head open, or that Matt would fall and break his head open as his balance is off due to his hand, and...you get the idea.

It is now the real Scotland In December again, which is to say, damp and a bit sullen. I can live with that.


* Even completely setting aside the compounded pile o' fail--I mean, I'm a Star Trek fan, ffs, I know cognitive dissonance--I refuse to watch anything set in a high school in the last ten years, particularly US Midwestern high schools.

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[rhivolution]

The high today was allegedly 8, but I didn't go out today so I don't really know. Wasn't it terrible early in the week?! It was like Wisconsin, I hated it.

[littlebutfierce]

Do you think it feels colder here than it does at home w/the same temperature? I think it might--possibly b/c of the damp? I have a coworker who lived in New York during the winter & she agrees.

But also, I'm used to places -- offices, my house, public transit -- being heated more than they are here. It's one thing to be out in the cold if you can go into a cozy house/workplace, quite another when you go in & it's still not exactly toasty.

[rhivolution]

Yes and no? It was really dry here early in the week--walking to and from the hospital brought that point home. But when it's warmer than that, and windy, and damp, yeah--it does seem a little colder than it should be.

I agree about the heating, but I've come to the conclusion that the amount of energy consumption in the US is what's abnormal due to abnormally low costs. Between heating, larger appliance size, running the dryer several times a week...I can't imagine what I'd be paying to heat this flat like I'd heat one in the US.

[littlebutfierce]

Possibly Bristol is just extra-damp, cuz when I was a student in York I don't remember having any sense of dampness or having mold in my room or anything.

Oh, I agree that energy use in the US is super-wasteful (our apartment building at home was so hot in winter I could wear tank tops) -- but it's made me soft. ;) Although, really, the shitty way most buildings here seem to be insulated doesn't help. It'd be cheaper to heat this house if it actually had insulation over the kitchen & bathroom. ;_;

[rhivolution]

We are both soft! I get cold so easily. I remember my room at Glasgow Uni being really cold in January with high winds and damp, but our flat here's okay even in the bitter cold as long as you manage it properly (pull the shades after dark, close doors behind you to keep in radiator heat, etc.).

Augh, our bathroom is cold a lot because the window's at the back of the house which gets all the wind, and it's a long thin room with the radiator at one end, which is not the end where the toilet and sink are. sigh.