It's a littuw bit hot in here.

Not having made any attempt to crack into the Stonewall Bourgeoisie while in Sydney I have toyed with trying to attain for myself the equivalent tag here, while a sort of big fish in a small pond. However Mars Bourgeoisie are more difficult to identify than their Eastern states counterparts since they display a rather erratic set of behaviours which I would also not be able, or even want, to emulate. Basically I have met very few people on the scene down here who actually approach what you might call normality. Would fate just please introduce me to someone down to earth? Robbie is I guess – he has spent enough time in Sydney to have had any unbridled kookiness erased out of him. Should give him a call. He might even have some friends who have similar presence of mind. Incidentally, I was amused to note on Tuesday evening that one of the glassies from Mars works at my local Coles. Talk about moonlighting. My journal gets updated twice in three days this week because I am at work and not really feeling like doing anything productive. This is partly because I am recovering from getting sunburnt on the weekend (again) and because it’s hotter in the office than it is outside courtesy of an air conditioning unit that has leaked most of its refrigerant out, frozen itself, blocked its evaporator and now doesn’t blow any air, let alone cool air. There is a bloke named George in the utility room fixing it now but he doesn’t say much because he doesn’t want to get involved in the politics between us and our landlord. Love it. Gets better though. We now have approval from the head office to use company cash to buy ice creams for ourselves, if it’s over 25 degrees in here after 2pm, everyday until it’s fixed.The silent-end-of-word-L Adelaide accent continues to amaze. Down here if you have a headache you take a ‘Panadow’ (Panadol). If you like something you say it is ‘coow’ (cool). To do some shopping you might go to ‘Runduw Street Maw’ (Rundle Street Mall). Mice are ‘littuw’ (little). ‘Deww’ (Dell) is a popular brand of computer and you might ‘instaww’ (install) programs on it. ‘Wawws’ (walls) keep the wind out of your house. It’s very cute and even sounds slightly British although I’m not really exposed to it that much because most of the people I work with are from the Eastern states, drawn to Adelaide because there is actually a lot of work in engineering here. Unlike in Sydney the meaningless prefix ‘uber’ appears not to have infiltrated the local vernacular, which is good because it’s use in any context shits me to tears.