37 sounds like what Environment Canada calls a Humidex reading: an estimate of what the heat feels like in combination with the humidity. I try to ignore it, as it usually makes me feel worse about the heat, which typically does me in.

Air-conditioning makes housework easier at the height of an Ontario summer. One of my more socially awkward moments was making strawberry jam in my underwear when the doorbell rang -- enumerators taking names for the voters' list. Fortunately, I was wearing a neck-to-knees apron (jam spatters are no joke), but I had to keek around the edge of the door to save their blushes.

In the absence of air-conditioning, every bedroom needs a ceiling fan. Take a cold shower at bedtime and, still a bit damp, lie down on top of the bed under the fan ... Ahhh.