This being a follow up to the previous entry, it is still extremely hot and I am still sweating like a person who's just run a 10 kilometre marathon except without the fitness benefits that the activity entails. Last night I went to bed at 4.17am, got up at 6 because it was unbearable and I had to splash myself with water before going back to bed and then finally got up at 9.43am sweating and feeling extremely angry. I went straight into a cold shower, got out and waited in my towel (as opposed to my 'tower') for Adam to show up online and once he did I begged him to take me to Wal*Mart so that I could buy a freaking fan. Thankfully, he agreed and we left at around half past eleven. We first went to Dairy Queen and I had a Oreo-flavoured Blizzard, which ought to not make sense to most people in India because I had not heard of Oreos until last September and Blizzards until today. Anyway, it was cold and delicious and it took me about 30 minutes to eat it all up. Subsequently, we went to Wal*Mart and I looked all around for signs of cooling equipment, found none and exited. Then we went to Target, looked all around for signs of cooling equipment, found none, and exited. Apparently, thanks to the heat wave, the entire state of California is now completely sold out of fans and air conditioners. Crap!
Thankfully, Adam's car was air conditioned and the trip to and fro the shopping mall was an extremely pleasant affair. Also, second good thing today was that I am one of those few people who have to work on Sundays, but… the good part is that the Libraries (where I inevitably end up working) are air conditioned and for four hours I had a blast (pun attempted). After that, it became evening and the weather outside at least calmed down a bit. I think it dropped to 28ºC (82ºF - funny inversion) which is somewhat pleasant. However, curious about comparing Delhi and S-t-a-n-f-o-r-d weather as I apparently was, I went to AccuWeather.com to check on forecasts. Apparently, the heat wave here is supposed to last till Wednesday. Great! I'll just burn til' then. But also, I checked out the weather for Delhi. And it said that the High for today was going to be 38ºC (100ºF), which seemed decent, but then they also mentioned that the RealFeel™ was going to be 54ºC (130ºF) and I was like "What the heck?!" But when I checked just now for the purposes of taking a screenshot, they had changed it to 50ºC (122ºF) which is still awfully hot, but at least it's not breaking any world records (which my friend Kim tells me is at 134ºF (57ºC)).
Delhi is hot. True. But at least I have an air conditioner in my room. Stanford is hot. Also true. And I have now ordered a fan from walmart.com and, for the first time in my life, paid for expedited shipping. I hope I won't ever have to do that ever again! It cut me like a knife to pay more than $10 for shipping.
Also, in the middle of the heat wave (and mostly because of it), California has declared a Stage 1 Power Emergency, which means that we either cut down on the power consumption a bit or there will be no power to cut down on. Let's hope that doesn't happen any time soon. What will I do with my expensively shipped fan then? Also, apparently there is a rule that one cannot use an air conditioner in these dorms because of the high electricity usage, and so students are protesting that and are going to meet with the person in-charge tomorrow bright and early in order to find some solution. I could probably survive on the second floor (that's first floor for non-Americans) just fine with a fan, but on the third and fourth floors it gets boiling hot and I can appreciate why people are sleeping in the computer cluster tonight because it's air conditioned. I do not envy the people on the fourth floor at all.
Anyway, I need to take another shower.
Thankfully, Adam's car was air conditioned and the trip to and fro the shopping mall was an extremely pleasant affair. Also, second good thing today was that I am one of those few people who have to work on Sundays, but… the good part is that the Libraries (where I inevitably end up working) are air conditioned and for four hours I had a blast (pun attempted). After that, it became evening and the weather outside at least calmed down a bit. I think it dropped to 28ºC (82ºF - funny inversion) which is somewhat pleasant. However, curious about comparing Delhi and S-t-a-n-f-o-r-d weather as I apparently was, I went to AccuWeather.com to check on forecasts. Apparently, the heat wave here is supposed to last till Wednesday. Great! I'll just burn til' then. But also, I checked out the weather for Delhi. And it said that the High for today was going to be 38ºC (100ºF), which seemed decent, but then they also mentioned that the RealFeel™ was going to be 54ºC (130ºF) and I was like "What the heck?!" But when I checked just now for the purposes of taking a screenshot, they had changed it to 50ºC (122ºF) which is still awfully hot, but at least it's not breaking any world records (which my friend Kim tells me is at 134ºF (57ºC)).
Delhi is hot. True. But at least I have an air conditioner in my room. Stanford is hot. Also true. And I have now ordered a fan from walmart.com and, for the first time in my life, paid for expedited shipping. I hope I won't ever have to do that ever again! It cut me like a knife to pay more than $10 for shipping.Also, in the middle of the heat wave (and mostly because of it), California has declared a Stage 1 Power Emergency, which means that we either cut down on the power consumption a bit or there will be no power to cut down on. Let's hope that doesn't happen any time soon. What will I do with my expensively shipped fan then? Also, apparently there is a rule that one cannot use an air conditioner in these dorms because of the high electricity usage, and so students are protesting that and are going to meet with the person in-charge tomorrow bright and early in order to find some solution. I could probably survive on the second floor (that's first floor for non-Americans) just fine with a fan, but on the third and fourth floors it gets boiling hot and I can appreciate why people are sleeping in the computer cluster tonight because it's air conditioned. I do not envy the people on the fourth floor at all.
Anyway, I need to take another shower.
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