Yes, this is another weather related entry — can’t help it, the weather is pretty much on everyone’s mind at the moment.

Working yesterday sucked, because the weather was gorgeous, absolutely fantastic — the kind of weather that makes a lot of people complain about heat and sweat, so altogether lovely. As long as one can enjoy it outside, that is. Working in it is horrible. But luckily it was still beautiful when I got off at 9pm, so I met up with my best friend Sibylle and we went to the Rhine, had a drink and talked.

It was still 25°C when I rode my bike home after 11pm.

Today started out great, too — I put on my favorite summer dress (which still fits me, after quite a number of years, yay! *g*) and settled down to research for my Salome paper (have I mentioned that I’ll probably write about the ‘femme fatale’ angle?). I wanted to be finished in the morning, so I could go to the open-air pool with a clean conscience.

Problem? At noon it started to rain. Or pour. And just maybe it’s thundering and not looking as if it’s going to stop any time soon. Great, just great!

Because what do you bet that it’ll be beautiful again tomorrow, when I’m stuck at uni? Yeah, thought so, too.

Unrelatedly: Been spending quite a bit of time trying to turn my palm into a reader. Found free programs for .prc and .pdf files — but unfortunately there’s nothing out there for Mac OSX that enables me to convert my own files into one of those formats (that is, I did find a site offering conversion into pdf, but Adobe’s palm reader doesn’t accept those files).

A pity — it would have been lovely to read on my palm during the train ride to Bonn on Thursday. Unfortunately the free reader Neil Gaiman offers on his website (which you should check out, btw!) is too big for my Zire palm. But maybe I’ll find a free e-book at MemoWare — I already d/led Wilde’s Salomé there and they seem to have tons of other stuff, too.

It’s amazing how much time I can waste playing around with techno gadgets like this — especially considering that I’m a complete amateur. As I said to my friend Cindy on Saturday, during our two hour phone call, all I’ll ever be is an amateur geek… *g*