as if my area isn't creepy enough.

[soundczech]

The city has been enveloped in this thick fog, like we're living on the moors in a Sherlock Holmes novel. I do not know if that reference makes sense, as I have only read one Sherlock Holmes novel and in it he was an opium junkie and it was primarily urban, but the general impression I have of Sherlock Holmes involves fog on the moors, though I am unclear about exactly what moors are. Anyway, point is it's sort of creepy, especially because it's pretty abnormal for Melbourne to have fog to quite this extent. I took that photo while walking home from a party tonight. I sort of expected to get murdered because bad things happen in the fog, but I made it home safe.

I took my bike for a ride on Tuesday and rode like four or five kilometres, which is really not all that far but I am pathetically unfit so I was pretty impressed with myself. I had grand plans to take it out every day, so of course I promptly fell ill on Wednesday; all I did for all of Wednesday and most of Thursday was sleep and try not to tilt my head too much as it lead to insane dizziness.

When I was a little kid I used to have dizzy spells, when I was about three, I think. My mother said it used to freak her out so much because she'd always worry it would happen while I was climbing the monkey bars or something and I'd end up dead. I seem to have survived alright though. I don't really remember it, except for this vague impression of sitting on a brown velvet armchair in my house in Canberra and looking at a picture book and then the room suddenly spinning. Thinking about this is making me feel ill again.

I want to do some kind of meme but I can't think of anything.

sam: what's your post about?
fitz: i took a photo of the fog
and then just rambling to fill space
uh
illness
sam: why is there so much
it freaked me out
fitz: dizzy spells when i was little
sam: well no i just thought my glasses were dirty
then i dismissed it
fitz: no it's seriously foggy :|
sam: maybe the world is ending
wouldn't that be cool
fitz: we could camp in an abandoned shopping centre
sam: OH MY GOD
FIC WHERE
fitz: toast marshmellows over a fire in a bin
sam: KAME AND JIN
AND PI
GET
LOCKED IN
SOMEWHERE
AFTER HOURS

All our conversations end up in the same place.

Comments

[font.livejournal.com]

okay, so it wasn't dust storms, though i really don't see how what it actually was is any better at all:

font: how weird
you had a drought last year
huh
thewhiteprophet: usually really brown here. and dry. it's always really dry.
font: droughts by the ocean seem weird to me.
thewhiteprophet: god jenny
we are seriously always
ALWAYS
in the middle of a drought
font: :(
thewhiteprophet: we always have water restrictions
like always
font: how unpleasant.
thewhiteprophet: yeah seriously
and like
in summer
these bushfires
man
this year they were seriously insane
like
this one burnt for SO LONG
LIKE WEEKS I THINK
we had all this smoke everywhere, really gross
like you could look out the window
and just see white/grey
font: oh god.
i just
how awful!
thewhiteprophet: I KNOW
I WAS JUST LIKE
font: that is completely crazy
thewhiteprophet: DUMP SOME FUCKING OCEAN WATER ON IT WHAT IS THE ALTERNATIVE


but i just wanted to say that your insane fog makes me like your upside down and backwards city of fire a little bit more. i love fog. we get really heavy fog here sometimes; i have to cross the mississippi to get to work every morning, and there will be weeks when the bridge just seems to vanish over the river -- you have to take it on faith that if you drive onto it, you will make it to the other side.

[soundczech.livejournal.com]

Yeah, summer was pretty blankface this year. The bushfires are far away though, we live in the city! It's just the smoke drifts. Sometimes it goes all the way to Singapore. Bushfires here are pretty insane.

FOG IS TERRIFYING. I would never do that, the bridge thing. I would end up trapped in my house.