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April 30, 2007
Hot Days
High of 116 or 117 degrees predicted for today. 114/115 yesterday. It has been like this in Gurgaon for the last four days. I spend maybe an hour walking around in the afternoons an then I head back inside. I like the feeling of the sun, because it reminds me of a day that I spent walking around in Faro, on the southern tip of Portugal (I was carrying a thirty lb backpack at the time and did not have a hotel to go back to so the case was different). You can feel the heat in your joints and in the sensitive skin under your eyelids. When the wind picks up the air seems to get hotter. Everyone who works outside during the day seeks shelter in the afternoon so the streets are abandoned and strangely quiet, day laborers and barbers sleep in the shade of the trees along the sidewalks.
| By jb | 12:18 AM
Comments
JB, I miss you.
Posted by: keri at May 1, 2007 11:27 AM
Dude, I miss you and that entire parallel world on the 3rd floor of 12 Oliver
Posted by: jb at May 1, 2007 12:23 PM