Hot, Hot, Hot

I'm sure everyone knows the song. 'How you feeling? hot, hot hot!" It is one of those Bollywood songs that seemed to just get picked up and used everywhere. Most memorably at the end of Bend it like Beckham, with hilarious perfection. It is not however a helpful song to have stuck in your head when it is eighty in your apartment and all you have is one little fan to help out. Summer it seems is in full swing.

We never had air conditioning growing up. You opened the windows at night and ran fans in the worst weather, closing up the house(closing windows and pull shades across them all) once the sun started coming in the windows. I remember I also could not sleep at night with out my comforter on, something that drove my mother insane. It was would be hot and humid and I would be snuggled deep down under all my covers as if it was a cold winter night. Thankfully I grew out of that. Maybe it is was my youth, but I do not deal with the heat as well as I once did. Part of the problem might be that once I was in middle school, I got my own room in the basement and it was always cool down there in the summer (sometimes I even had to run my heater).

I can't imagine what it was like before air conditioning or even electric fans. Women wore full dresses, with corsets and stockings. I wonder how they did it. personally I am glad that I am freezing right now in my office, in glorious air conditioning. Although I am struggling to keep awake after a night of not sleeping due to the 'hot, hot, hot', I can't wait till true summer comes, won't that be fun!?!