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hello again!
i'm currently hiding inside from a) the heat b) the monkeys and c) the gangs of roaming teenages who think a festival is a good excuse to harass me, so thought i'd write a little note.
this one's entitled:
you know you're dehydrated when....
..... diorylte is the tastiest drink in the world
..... drinking coffee can give you a hangover
..... the 8 litres of water you routinely purify each morning start to run out
..... you start jealously guarding old water / plastic bottles
..... the mouldy sugar-cane juice on the street corners starts looking delicious
..... curd starts looking attractive
the heat's suddenly picked up here (or rather, i finally left my 'cool trap' and went ambling about in the midday sun). very exciting, we beat mumbai in the temperature game and are now on 36o. although strangely enough, i'm really not feeling like it's hot at all. acclimatisation woop woop seems to have worked, and i was pottering about in the sun today thinking, 'it's really not that hot'. until i got back to the flat that was, and realised i was drenched in sweat and thiiiiirsty! and i was still wearing jeans and long-sleeved tops until yesterday (today i'm floating about in an UNattractive white cotton sack, ooh yeah). i'm starting to think i'm going to be chilly in the old uk, especially if it's still snowing...
but i discovered another interest thing today (well it's a theory ells & i were testing rigorously during the whole bowel malarkey), which is that the taste of diorlyte is directly proportional to how hot it is / how dehydrated you are. which makes sense in a way, good to see my body still functions on some levels, but it is interesting that the best way to measure how dehydrated i am is to take a sip of diorlyte. and today - yummy! (but nothing beats the sweet sweet WHO ration electrolyte solution i had when dysentery-ed.... ooh, it was good)
ho hum, apparently i've got water shortages and power cuts to look forward to now (the heralds of summer in india, apparently) - but i'm off today to buy an enormous bucket to store emergency water, so it's all good...
in other news, every chemist in delhi seems to want to sell me folic acid. do i really look that pregnant?
jess xx
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