assailed by heat

Imagine leaving the house to go downtown two days in a row. What a life of luxury(?).

My roommate doesn’t think so. He doesn’t want to go downtown one day in a row. But he had a follow-up appointment scheduled today. The timing is unfortunate because there’s a heat wave. My phone and desktop keep sending me excessive heat warnings from the National Weather Service.

“Oh my god, I’m being assailed by heat,” he said as we stepped out into the condo stairwell.

95 degrees downtown, heat index of 104. Everyone was talking about the heat. Aside from that, it was all the usual rigamarole: ubering to the train station, taking a long train ride, ubering to the center, waiting nearly an hour to be seen…all to be told “looking good, see you in a month.” Also we missed the 3 pm train home because our Uber driver was delayed by traffic.

But because we missed the train, we had time to get milkshakes at the donut shop. Maybe it is a life of luxury.

Anyway, I had better head to sleep; tomorrow’s my office day.