More January woes

It was 44℃ yesterday, or almost that. The weatherman said that was 110℉, so I'll take his word for it. But yeah, it was horrible. D: Worse, it remained above 30℃ for the entire night, and my room was already hot (maybe mid-thirties) from the day, and my little cooler is severely underpowered. That was not a fun night :(

This morning, it was still hot! Yesterday they were saying the change would come through around lunchtime, but lunchtime came and went and there was no change. Eventually I gave up on my room -- underpowered cooler was not working -- and went to watch Yes, Minister on DVD in the back room. Where it was cooler. I got through four episodes, and then finally the change was through!

The temperature is much more comfortable now, and it's such a relief. Hot weather makes me feel sick with something. Heat sickness, perhaps ;P

I've made a little more progress on my epic project that still needs a name... not progress that extended to finding a name, but progress! ;) I filled in the one gap I had left in my third draft thus far... which means I think there's another of those disconnects that plagued the second draft. More revision is clearly necessary. Otherwise, though, I think it's coming better than it had before. The draft's currently at about ~10,000 words, and at five and a half chapters. If this rate continues, this novel is going to be half or a third of the size of my last draft! I suspect the chapters will start getting longer, though. It'll be back to a 100,000 word monstrosity in no time. (Well... I exaggerate a bit.)

I'm also trying to update my blog on average once a day, but so far I've posted 7 times in 12 days, which is nowhere near the average rate required. :\ I wanted to maintain roughly-NaBloPoMo pace without actually having to write every day, but I am FAILING, because the knowledge that I can always make it up tomorrow means I am not writing and then never actually making it up.

It being January, with all the stiflingly hot weather that results, does not help.