Niin kuin sade, joka sataa meluisasti

Friday night gemigemi had a friend over, so the two of them didn't sleep all night. On Saturday afternoon it was eventually decided that (after the friend went home) we'd go to the city to get food and then gemigemi would go practice and Kaarina and I would go to the Linnanmäki amusement park.

At which time it started to rain. Slowly, at first. We actually wandered around the park until it was 6PM, so then we could buy the evening passes (24€) for the last 3 hours of the day. And we had to go on the wooden roller coaster first, which I'm so deathly afraid of but I guess I've needed a good scream for a while now. I think I'll stick to avoiding roller coasters, thank you.

After two hours of rides it was pouring and we were both sopping wet so we got some groceries and went home. I find it interesting that eggs are stored close to, but not in, the refrigerators.

As mornings and afternoons typically don't exist here (after Friday night, gemigemi slept quite soundly), this evening another of their friends showed up for some meeting of their dance gaming club... online. That's right - the meeting was on IRC, but this friend was over to come to sauna afterward.

Apparently, for the residents, it costs something like 6,50€/month to book the sauna for an hour each week, but there are also open sauna times when any resident can go. The latter are gender-segregated, but when you're just with friends or family, it's often mixed. This was a fairly large brick-lined room in the basement. It's traditionally the men who throw water on the stove, but gemigemi didn't get it nearly as hot as we had it at Kiviniemi. We also brought some Coke to drink (my nausea seems now to be just caused by drinking while walking) inside and that's kinda fun until your can gets too hot to put your lips onto. Maybe that's why plastic bottles are preferred, though I can't vouch for the safety of or melting points of the plastics involved. But yeah, this place was rather large as it's designed for groups of [(nerdy)] students. [Aggh! Attack of the Nerds!!]

Not long after I finished drinking my pop, I totally got the whole thumpety-heart-feeling, like I've just had a beer, but without the horrible taste. If drinking pop in sauna gives me that feeling, I don't want to imagine what would happen if I had something alcoholic. Although I think it might just be a matter of my body being still rather stranger to it. I mean, I quite like sauna, even though my black hair gets super-hot in there, but drinking anything in there just isn't for me, I guess.

Before going to sauna, I was talking with someone on the phone or on chat about being all emo and desperate from packing and thinking of the inevitable thoughts, and he said "I wouldn't recommend cutting your wrists." Well, I was cutting up some black sausage (Note to self: very similar to stuff at O'Byrnes) when I cut my finger. No bleeding, but ya know.

[So long, and thanks for all the mustamakkara]