Too Darn Hot

The heat index in Jerusalem today is 44.6º Celsius. That's a little over 112º Fahrenheit!! And as is the case with most apartments in Jerusalem, there's no air conditioning. My apartment is constructed mostly out of stone, which usually keeps things pretty cool. But not today, oh no. I'm sitting around in my gym shorts and sweating just from the exercise of typing. =/

Cold showers help for about 5 minutes. Then you start sweating again. Drinking ice water seems to help to some degree. I would leave my place in search of somewhere with air conditioning, but that would entail going outside. Trapped. Inside.

Oh well, at least I like my apartment. I did pull a page out of my childhood and put some grapes in the freezer. Hopefully soon they'll be ready to eat and will go to work on cooling me off from the inside out. It makes me wonder though, how different life must have been before air conditioning! At least, on most occasions, I can retreat to someone else's apartment, or a cafe, or school where there is (usually) air conditioning -- how tough it must have been when no where had air conditioning. I guess this is a nice slice of perspective courtesy of biblicaly hot weather. Thank you?

Dear Bloomington, want to trade weather?