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It has been the hottest summer in Japan for 113 years.  I think it's nearly 3 or 4 weeks without rain.  As a British person, I find this quite worrying, as I feel that rain is something one should see at least once or twice a week.  The Japanese have a word 夏ばて which kind of translates at "summer weariness" - the lethargy of months of oppressive humidity, no sleep because of the heat, no desire to eat etc etc.  I also have been savagely attacked on a near nightly basis by mosquitos and other unknown beasts, and have had to resort more than once to antihistamines due to the hives crawling up my legs.  I've got heat rash that won't disappear, and huge dark circles under my eyes, from not having had a good night's sleep in months (though that is normal, really).

Other than that, I'm working working. Perhaps stupidly I didn't take the two week holiday I was given.  I worked at the British Council instead, but I'm now feeling like I should have taken some time off.  But the money was going to be needed, so...

Bought a new camera - a Nikon D5000.  Still getting the hang of it.  I took a pic of these cool Cirrocummulus clouds the other day.  Very pretty sky for about an hour. so I sat on my balcony and enjoyed the view.