June 22, 2009
One day body odor will go back into style. I mean with global warming and a water shortage around here we’ve got no choice, have we. And today with another heat wave i was moving from institution to institution, meeting all kinds of people, and it wasn’t pleasant. The air conditioner in the hemotology ward was on the blink and everyone was very nervous. Very nervous. And of course at the university the semester is officially over so whoever showed up for the extra make-up classes was not in the best of moods what with all this heat.
Actually it was probably only me, suddenly very sensitive to the weather. And there were places at the university where i found myself in paradise today, under a gorgeous jacaranda tree that shaded and cooled and comforted all at once. There was a physiology student sitting under the tree with her sandwich, wearing a veil, a long skirt, long sleeves blouse and a jacket, and I said to her – at least you’ve found the best place in the neighborhood to cool off, and she said to me – You’re just not drinking enough.
She was right – by the time i got home I was nauseous and weak, and although i wasn’t thirsty i forced a quart of water into me. Then I took a shower.
And then I turned on the AC and life began to look bearable. Maybe I was just suffocating in my own sweat.
“Use tomorrow for all your errands,” the weatherman says. “I know it will be hot. But the day after will be even hotter.”
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