I'm sweaty

The high today is 105, but it feels like 115. It's like the opposite of a wind chill: something in the air is making Delhi seem hotter than it is. But I shouldn't worry right? I mean it cools down at night and I have A/C....yeah....no. The lows are still around 90 degrees and my entire little enclave (which my friend Vaibhav has just informed he is an undocumented part of the colony) is having wiring issues and the power has been out since about 11pm last night. The A/C at work is broken and I believe that Ravi is punishing us all for the whole "Jacob is a creepy, sick and twisted person and we no longer feel safe working with him" fiasco. (but that's a long story that maybe I'll tell. Maybe I wont. I don't want to worry Mom.) It was supposed to be fixed by 10 today. still not fixed. So I'm giving up on work and going to a air conditioned coffee shop around the corner. I have to get some sort of relief. It actually started to scare me a little this morning. I did my usual gym routine: run there, workout/lift, and run back. The cold shower at home usually cools me off just fine and I'm okay. Today I was not okay. I didn't stop sweating from every part of my body until an entire hour later! I mean, beads of sweat dripping off my wrists sweat. The clothes that I put on after the shower were soaked through in about 5 minutes. I've already had two 1liter water bottles. I'm still sweating, per usual, but that's normal here. Gully would fit in just fine ;) love you!

Today has already had a highlight though. I always lift when I go to the gym here, mostly because the cardio machines are old and in short supply/high demand. Since I started working out at Crossfit in Spokane I've been drawn to more weight lifting anyway. For only the second time since I've been here, there was a woman at the front desk. When I got there she asked me if I was liking the gym, in pretty good english. I said that I was enjoying it, thanked her, and went on my merry way. On my way out she stopped me again. She thanked me for coming in and said that she was so happy I was here, lifting weights. She said that women in India don't weight train because they think they'll get big muscles. They don't know that it will just tone you and they won't listen because there is a stigma about a woman lifting. Other than herself, I am the only other weight-training woman in the gym. She called cardio "merely a body warm-up" and that Indian women will never lose fat if they don't drop the stigma, and that I, being a foreigner, has helped them look at weights a different way. Happy to help! :) This also explains the quizzical stares I get when I do weighted deadlifts and power cleans. That isn't something they see very day...