Sunday, August 01, 2010

How to win over heat & influence sweat

I do not exactly know how to.I have heard that receptors adapt..blah blah..This is the story of my stay at Aligarh recently.These are pages  from my imaginative diary because I don't keep one.
The night was hot.I lost a few liters of sweat as usual.There was a power-cut for about four hours during which I shifted from the bedroom to the hall and slept on the floor trying to catch a few ml of cold air.
The morning sun woke me.Since the apartment was on the third floor,we beheld sunrise a few nanoseconds earlier than the lower floors.The sun scorched me at 6AM and I shifted to the bedroom.Thankfully,the power was back on and the air-cooler(!) was back on.
I walked to the AMU library and a few more litres of body fluids evaporated.I sat down in front of the aircoolers in the library and went through the usual motions.
Lunch time!I skipped going home,which was about half a km away because I wanted to save sweat.There was a power-cut in the library,but only for a few brief while.I walked back home in the evening braving the heat,mosquitoes and the drainage pit.I had a bath(my second one) and I sat down to study.A few hundred ml gone again.
 I wish I could have captured the heat and kept it for posterity and also to not get a skewed view of the Indian weather by living in Bangalore.
 
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