It's so incredibly hot today, it's finally starting to feel like Turkey. Ugh. Even though I'm in a non-air-conditioned office on the third floor (fourth floor to those people living in the US), I didn't want to go out and get anything to eat. It's that hot that I'd one, not jump at the chance to take a break, and two, not jump at the chance to eat something. I can't pin it specifically on any one of the following: because I just didn't want to move, that I was subconsciously thinking if I went out I'd have to walk the three flights of stairs back up, or if the heat was just making me loopy. I finally couldn't take it anymore. Even though I was in a heat induced semi-hungerless state, I decided to walk to the small market about two blocks away; not too far of a distance. At least if I passed out, they could see me from the window.

On my way to the store, I was crossing one of the side streets when this mother tripped and came this close to falling on her face. Now, that's all fine and good, except she didn't let go of her toddler's hand during the process, so this poor boy was simultaneously whipped forward before he could possibly know what the hell was happening. Luckily, instead of being slammed on the ground and dragged across the hot asphalt, he only made it as far as my body. Now I can't imagine how pleasant it is to be thrown into someone's hip, but I can imagine that it's got to feel at least a little better than dragging your face across hot asphalt; therefore, it's going down in the books as my good deed for the day.

Walking back to the office, content with my purchases of two peaches and a banana, I happen to meander by one of the sidewalk ice cream windows. Who should I see outside but another poor boy in a circumcision outfit enjoying one of heaven's precious treats. Now, I've heard of ice cream making even the worst of days alright, or at least a lot better, maybe, though I'm not sure, I've had the privelege of ice cream self-medication first-hand; but never in the caverns of my imagination could I have fathomed a power as great as that which I witnessed today with my very own eyes. The world of wonders in which we live...