HEAT

Oh, I hate this time of year. Hate, hate, hate. Have I made myself clear? And it's all due to one thing. HEAT. It's unbelievable. Having grown up in the great town of Brisbane, Queensland, I know about heat. It's hot all the time there, even in winter. But it ends. It gets hot during the day and then it drops at night. Not to a liveable level but there is always some difference between day heat and night heat.

The same does not apply for little ol' Melbourne. It gets hot, it stays hot, it's 3.00am and it's 30 degrees celcius. And then there is a thunderstorm at breakfast and then it's cold, cold, cold. It's weird and it should be stopped.

Anyway, yesterday was one of those days when it was 30 degrees by breakfast and then just kept getting hotter. Days like this see all my lovely work plans evaporate before they hit the page, and all I can do is lie in various states of undress and vow never to complain about the winter this year. This of course won't happen but I keep on vowing.

However, in the somewhat cooler light of day this morning, I found that in my hear-induced insanity yesterday, I managed to completely rethink a full-length play I had been struggling with for at least two years. I employed the Keep It Simple Stupid method and suddenly found that it was starting to work. IT'S WORKING! Which is completely and utterly exciting and reason enough to forget that I did practically nothing yesterday and get cracking with everything on my current to-do list today.