Amidst everything, a tiny triumph for me is that for the last couple of weeks I've been consistently mixing the PERFECT cups of tea - just enough milk and honey to cut the bitterness and make it full, but not so much as to make it actively sweet. I can't even describe what it tastes like, but it is a perfect flavor and mouthfeel and it makes my pre-work mornings that much more bearable.

It's absolutely miserably hot here, set to be in the 100s (Fahrenheit) for the next few days starting with today. Which I realize is not that much for some people and places, but it's absolutely not supposed to happen where I live, so no one is ready for it, and advice has been flying around for how to manage it. Well, here is what I have managed today.

-Made a frozen yogurt pie yesterday evening. Have already eaten probably about 2/3 of it. Have graduated from slicing pieces to just taking the whole thing out of the freezer and digging in with a fork.
-Left my apartment three times. Twice to do laundry this morning (it was already in the 80s at 9 am, which is unacceptable), after which I determined that I would not be leaving it again until it had cooled down significantly. A third time this evening around sunset (at 9:30 PM) when it was finally a little cooler outside than inside, to read my book at the park.
-In that vein, finished my reread of Fellowship of the Ring. Did way too much liveblog/spamming on Tumblr. Hashtag no regrets.
-While rereading Fellowship, worked some more on my ongoing Legolas/Gimli essay. It's over 6,000 words and I've barely gotten to Two Towers. It might not be quite as much for each book as the first one was, though. Also, I'm not quite sure what my point is yet. But I'm making Many Observations. Also they are in love.
-Made significant use of the fridge and freezer, specifically ziploc bags full of water that I froze and have been using as rotating ice packs all day.
-Sweated. A lot.

My gosh, the part of this roll recipe where I dissolve butter and sugar in warm milk... I can never keep from dipping my finger in to test it (test what, exactly? who knows...), and then I just lick off sweet dairy, and... yeah.

Mmm, rolls.