Too hot. Can’t do anything. Can’t think of anything. What was I talking about?
It’s so hot that I cannot think of anything else to write about but how hot it is – like every other melt-brained blogger along the Information Superhighway. To Hell.
We are all a little more disagreeable and irascible under the extreme heat. We are all feeling put upon. We don’t mind pushing people out of our way. Our senses become more selective, hearing less of what people say and more of the insistent voices in our heads.
“Scientists” I was just reading in an article from last year on Nolisoli.ph from Manila, “have discovered that heat can—in fact—make you stupid.” It was a longer article, with numbers and things. Too much for my brain to deal with.
You can read it yourself. Whatever.
If you are here in southern Europe, including Serbia, Croatia, Italy, Spain, southern France, and many other usually-hot-but-not-normally-thermonuclear places, you have been living through the same heatwave, one which seems intent to hang around for another week or two. Temperatures in Serbia have gone up to 42°C (107.6°F) one day last week.
And this is making us stupid.
Technically, we are probably not any stupider than in winter, but the heat prevents us from engaging our brains as much as we might otherwise. We cannot be bothered. It makes us act more rudely and anti-socially to each other. And to anyone with whom I may have spoken during these dog days, I apologize. I am sure I did not mean it. I am also sure that I do not remember it. Sorry.
There is more to say here, but I can’t put down the words anymore. You can think of them yourselves.
