really, Allah, a whole month?

[aruan]

The thing about Ramadan, which restricts eating and drinking in public (along with swearing, chewing gum, clothing that exposes the knees or shoulders, and displays of affection), is that it perversely leaves you constantly hungry and thirsty for everything. Being technically a government office, we are expected to toe the party line, but there is a curtained back room for the 95 percent of the newsroom who are not Muslim where we can, you know, replenish that 20 percent of our body weight lost through sweat on the walk to work in 110-degree heat. Seriously, not drinking in this country before everyone owned an Escalade had to be dangerous.