Some definitions

Irony; is skipping breakfast to blow-dry your hair just so, only to step out into a steady drizzle, with a five-minute walk to the nearest tram stop. And no umbrella.

Cold; is putting on two layers of sunscreen on a depressingly overcast day, in the faint hopes of keeping your cheeks from feeling squeezed right off the bones.

Resentment; is twenty e-mails on Friday, celebrating the very fact that it is Friday, when you are, in (another) fact, working on Saturday.

Incongruous; is being the only girl in a train carriage, standing almost on the midpoint, breathing in (trying not to) the sweetish beery breath-warmed air, surrounded by wife-beatered, be-football-scarfed-and-jumpered hordes of very large, very loud men, and re-reading (heart re-breaking) The Lord of the Rings.

Panic; is realising you are still, inexplicably, typing when you have less than five minutes to leave for work, and

Stopping.