Last week it rained for almost a week here in Qatar. Drivers, confused, got into accidents (“Why is water falling from the sky? How strange. I shall drive faster than usual!”), the endless Doha construction didn’t help either (“I am a pothole and covered in water, therefore I am invisible to man and their cars, cars will fall into me and I will block traffic for hours!”), while some people like me stayed indoors and relished at the sight of rain after almost a year of sun (“Wow, it’s raining!”).
And then my blog got spammed, causing my webhost to shut this blog down. I got off with 72 hours of shutdown and a second warning, and I am angry at spam, I am, I am.
The temperature then dropped, sometimes down to 7°C at night, resulting in cough and colds and panic sweater-shopping. We were given one measly heater, which doesn’t heat much unless you stand 2mm next to it. I have been cornered to the room by the cold, where I work covered with two comforters, a cup of tea beside me, music from my iPod, several books to read, and the useless electric heater pitifully trying to prove its worth.
So to summarize, winter has arrived in Qatar. Except for the spam thing.
I promised that I would write more often, so I probably will.
Probably.
Currently listening to:
Pinback
Summer in Abaddon
