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Got myself into kind of a mess. It may sound trite, but believe me it isn't. My laundry was so backed up that I said No more. I took it down to the laundry room and put it in the washing machine. By the time I got back upstairs to my apartment it was difficult to breathe, the heat feels like having a very heated, very dry blanket stuffed against my face and trying to breathe through it.
I have felt such heat only once before. I stepped out of a nicely air conditioned bus into the Negev (desert in Israel where John, Jesus, and others walked all over) and the heat hit me so hard that my mind felt disoriented. The Negev is big, flat, white. The only people who live there are Bedouins, and they live in colorful tents. I don't know how they survive, I really don't. I don't know how the Biblical people made it, either.
There have been times when I was in the Mohave Desert and in Arizona in the summer, but even those was not quite this hot.
Anyway, now I'm stuck with having to go down and put my laundry in the dryer. Then one more trip to pick it up. I'm spraying cold peppermint/lavender mist on myself, drinking tons of cold water. Turned the a/c way up (we're not supposed to because of potential black-outs, but my apartment is too warm). And, oh, God - I have to get to my car to get water out of it to bring up.
Every inch of my body aches. I need a swimming pool to just fall into. I feel like I'm witnessing the earth suffering, and badly so.
Okay, made it to the dryer. Suddenly I remembered a trick we used in Israel - a cold, wet shirt around neck, a cold, wet cloth tied around nose and mouth, cold, wet cloth tied around head. Very, very helpful. So just one more trip down in 45 minutes. I haven't figured out about the water in the car yet.
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