Garmi in Deutschland

Mercury hit 28°C (feels like 34 ) in Hamburg today. Back in the old country (:P) this meant business as usual but it's a totally different ball game over here. I am not one to complain about the heat but matters become worse when you don't have air conditioning or even fans in your room. It kind of reminds me of those 6 hour 'breakdowns' when all you could do was sweat after the UPS died on you.

Within the student circle, other than the usual summertime activities like out door barbecues and cycling and bird watching and bunking classes and cursing the RAs and what not, there is this unusual exchange of notes on how hot it is today and how it compares to our home countries and who is 'man enough' to handle the heat.

A Russian friend of mine asked me if I felt it was too hot today. I sad yes. She retorted, "Why? You should be used to such temperatures. :P" As it turns out, she was getting back at me for saying something similar about her feeling cold in winter :)

I had two 'deliverables' to finish today and the heat is normally a good enough excuse to drop all pretenses of even wanting to work but this was a matter of izzat :P. So naturally, I spent the whole day cramped up in front of the computer trying to suppress compiler warnings :P. It was like that time when the generator at my old workplace had gone kaput and there was no air conditioning for weeks. The only relief came at the end of the day when I used to go running down to my Khyber and turned on her trusty AC :)