It's hot. My brain is melting in my head. It's not literally melting. It just feels like it's literally melting.
I don't know what people did before air conditioning was invented. When I turn on the air-con before bed, it's still hot in my room for hours.
OK, I guess that's enough about the heat, but it sure is hot.
Wow, just thinking about it is making me even hotter. I might burst into flames at any second.
When I was a kid, it used to get really hot in the summer. I mean, blazing hot. For about four weeks in July and August, nobody left their houses in the middle of the day. There wasn't a patch of green grass anywhere — it had all been burned brown by the sun. That was nothing compared to this hot heat.
For a few years, some friends of mine and I would go out to the Nevada desert to go camping for a week. The desert. Deserts are hot, and that desert was no exception. But let me tell you, that heat was nothing compared to this heat.
When I was at university, I took a sculpture class, and we worked with cast aluminium. Aluminium melts at about 660 degrees Celsius. To work with molten aluminium, you have to wear thick, leather coveralls, a face mask and asbestos gloves. Working with molten metal is hot, but not nearly as hot as this.
I've been trying to look up the symptoms of heat stroke, but I'm so overcome with dizziness, shortness of breath, muscle spasms and confusion, that I'm having a hard time understanding what I'm reading.
Sorry I lost my train of thought there for a minute.
As bad as I feel for myself, I feel even worse for my dogs. Imagine having to wear a fur coat in this heat. It's terrible. They're shedding so much that I can't keep up with sweeping up after them. Which makes my house look like it's lined with fur.
Anyway, I know complaining isn't going to solve anything. At some point, this heat wave will break and it will start to rain. It will rain so hard and for so long, that I'll probably be complaining just like this and wishing that it was the hot season again.
I can hardly wait.
Sean Vale
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