Rising

Too hot and humid for sleeping most of the night. Normally the summer here brings two or three nights in which an air conditioner feels necessary. We have surpassed that in the first three weeks of June this year. There's no doubt about the heat rising. It's not Chinese trickery. 

I've yet to put the air conditioner in the window. I resist the notion. Austerity. The strange pleasures of self-denial. I like the sound of the fan and the way it moves the air, even if it can't actually cool it. I don't like the hours of half-sleep, or no sleep, and the worries that rise up out of the mattress though.