List

He spent some time drinking coffee and working in his notebook to make a couple of corrections. "I think that'll do," he remarked casually, checking the temperature on his phone; the day would be a scorcher, miserable for its duration (and beyond). He wondered briefly if he should run a comb through his hair and decided against it. He washed his coffee mug, poured himself a large glass of water, and then shut the air conditioner off before sitting down. His lips moving, he went through the list over and over, speaking aloud all of the things you could get away with if you went crazy from heat in a kind of mantra.