heat wave

The temperature lately has been overwhelming, though it's finally cooled off. Nobody has air conditioning here, except a few offices. It's never important. So most of us have spent the last few days doing nothing, or wishing we were.

My girlfriend has an air conditioned office, and spends all of the worst parts of the day there, cool and comfortable and unconcerned. She comes home when the temperature's receding and laughs at the rest of us, covered in sweat and lying sprawled wherever we can sit, drinking all the water we can in the vain hopes it will cool us off. Some days, I think she really doesn't understand that it's hot out. Others, I'm sure she's just mocking us.

I set up a fan in the living room today in the hopes it'd cool something down. It didn't work but it was better than nothing. She came home and looked at it, puzzled, and asked when we'd got a fan.