Today is the longest day of the year – I can hardly believe it. To me it feels as if summer has hardly begun, and it’s already supposed to be half over? At least today feels right — it’s hot and sunny, with no cloud in the sky. I had to work the early shift at the retirement home, from 8am to 2.30pm, and when I came outside I was almost overwhelmed by the heat.

There were a lot of people outside, mostly young because of a big youth anti-discrimination festival happening this weekend. Also there’s an open-air ecumenical service in a park tonight, where hopefully a lot of people will go to, too. But truth be told I’m not going to either of these events — at first it was too hot to move, and now I feel pretty tired, and I have to work again tomorrow morning. Simply don’t want to leave the house. Bad Eva, very bad! 🙂

Looking forward to tomorrow afternoon — for the first time this year I’ll go to the open-air pool, which is normally my second home in summer but so far it just never worked out. I love going there, not to swim (I’m not a keen swimmer at all) but to sit in the grass, in the shade of some big tree, feel the warm air and (most importantly) people watch and talk with my friends. There’s always something to be seen — people are simply funny, or weird, or plain interesting, and from time to time gorgeous… 😉

I wish everyone a good Midsummer’s Night!