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Maanantai 🇫🇮 Mánudagur 🇮🇸

Even though the attic resembled a sauna yesterday night, I woke up in the middle of the night and realised that I was freezing. What an utterly unusual reaction from my system! Anyway, after waking up and having the usual breakfast, I wanted to go about my daily routine when it dawned on me we were out of goods. With this in mind, we jumped in the car and drove to the stores to replenish our inventory. It was already hot when we left, and it became even warmer when we were on the way back home, but the afternoon brought the real heat, +35°C, which, in this part of the globe, is considered an inferno. It's 20:11 when I'm writing this entry, and according to the thermometer, the outside temperature is still high, +28°C. The impending storm that is supposed to bring significantly colder air is on the corner. The weather forecast predicts severe thunderstorms with hail and gale-force wind, and they don't exclude the possibility of devastating flash floodings during the next 24 hours. Nice prospects!

As for my studies: I challenged ChatGPT with a few sets of sentences, but today wasn't my day to make outstanding achievements. I'm not disappointed or frustrated because I know the root cause of the problem. It can be attributed to the ginormous amount of practice I've made recently, and apparently, my wee mind needs time to process all the new pieces of information. I'll let them sink in properly.

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