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I recently got a desk, which is great. Studying is so much easier to do in a good environment. Before I studied on the floor, and none of my things were organized. I was always looking for a pen, or for the right notebook. No it's much easier to get my work done. I should have gotten a desk a lot sooner. It would have helped me get ready for my test quicker.   

In 2009 my parents bought me a Mac laptop. It was a gift for once I started college. My laptop went with me everywhere it was like my little baby. Unlike some of the PCs I had owned the Mac never got a virus, slowed down, or gave me any headaches with error and permission problems. Now about 7 years later it has reached the end of the line. Midway through a twitch stream the Laptop started acting up. Almost like everything closed. I would try and open some programs they would start to load and then nothing. If something ever went wrong with my Mac I could simply restart it and ta-da it worked like new. This time it never booted up again. I made an attempt to erase, partition, reinstall the OS, and many other things. Unfortunately nothing could be done since the hard drive is no longer mountable and it is corrupted. All hard drives fail its only a matter of time. So its time for me to say goodbye to my laptop but that's okay someone new and bigger is on the horizon.

On a side note R.I.P is what is put on many tombstones in America. It stands for Rest In Peace.  

The cool weather disappeared! I was appreciative of our cool summer that we'd been having, even though a lot of it was accompanied by rain. The first day of 80 degree temperatures and humidity was staggering,I felt like the air had never been so thick. My first time in Japan was in the summer, and I was here in Kagawa last year, but you'd never think so. It hasn't gotten easier.

I've noticed I make a lot of annoyed groans under my breath while I try to deal. Dance practice has been exponentially harder as the sweat pours off me in the gym. I drink like a fish, but I'm losing so much that I don't even have to use the bathroom!

My fan died the first night I needed it. It just sputtered and came to a stop. I slept with an icepack on my head! It was the best thing I could come up with at midnight. Now I have a new fan and I am still sleeping with icepacks. I wake up really early cause I'm so uncomfortable. I had no food in my apartment on the weekend because I didn't want to bike allllll the way over to the grocery store. Crazy, I know.

I always remember Japan summer festivals so fondly, and they are some of my favorite pictures, but I wish they didn't have to happen at the peak of hot and humid weather. And I'll be dancing outside in 2 huge festivals!
Let's have Fall festivals instead! It's much cooler then. We won't have to worry about losing Katie to heat-stroke.

I want to hide in my apartment until it's Fall.   

I have lived in Japan for three summers now, and I must say this year is the most uncomfortable. I don't quite remember the first year very much, except for the fact that I was living in Kanonji, and I remember really only turning on the air conditioner when I had company over.
The second year I had moved to Niihama, and once again only really used the air conditioner when I had company. Every other time I got by with a fan, and it felt okay.
But this year. Oh man, this year seems almost unbearable at times, especially at night! It's just so humid, and it feels like there is nothing that can be done! Even using the air conditioner, sometimes seems useless.
I have been told that it has to do with El Niño and La Niña, which are weather patterns that are determined by ocean temperatures. I don't know the specifics, but El Niño results from warmer weather over the ocean, which brings about more rain and typhoons to Japan. La Niña happens when the ocean is colder, which means that the rainy season is shortened in Japan, but with it comes unreasonably hot weather. Or so I have been told. Either way, I'm going to try to stay indoors where I can get free AC, like a library, or maybe even a restaurant!