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weird musings
Nov. 6th, 2003 09:19 amYou know, I never thought I'd say this, but... Okay, that's not true. I knew even before I moved out here that I was going to have trouble coping with the change in seasons.
I miss winter. The last few days, which have been particularly cold, just remind me of September and October days back home. And I miss the seasons back in the Northeast where it gets cold and actually snows. It's a terribly deceptive nostalgia, I know, mostly because even when I was back in the Northeast all winter I rarely got more than a handful of days total of good snowy winter weather.
And mostly what fall and winter did was make me horribly fucking miserable when I had to wake up at 6 AM and go stand out in the sub-freezing temperatures to wait for the bus. I always got cold easily, especially when I just woke up -- I still do. I don't miss that part of winter. A few weeks into winter, I very quickly got tired of it. I actually have the best of both worlds here, because I can go back home for a month right in the middle of the snowy season, and thus maximize my wintery-weather experience for just long enough that I can come back to the warm when I get sick of it.
So long as I'm attending school, and have no personal control over the temperature of my living space and no car to get around in, I'm more than happy to stay in never-freezing, almost-never-raining SoCal.
But I do miss seasons. There are always flowers here... it makes me sad that I can't appreciate the coming of spring as much as I used to.
I miss winter. The last few days, which have been particularly cold, just remind me of September and October days back home. And I miss the seasons back in the Northeast where it gets cold and actually snows. It's a terribly deceptive nostalgia, I know, mostly because even when I was back in the Northeast all winter I rarely got more than a handful of days total of good snowy winter weather.
And mostly what fall and winter did was make me horribly fucking miserable when I had to wake up at 6 AM and go stand out in the sub-freezing temperatures to wait for the bus. I always got cold easily, especially when I just woke up -- I still do. I don't miss that part of winter. A few weeks into winter, I very quickly got tired of it. I actually have the best of both worlds here, because I can go back home for a month right in the middle of the snowy season, and thus maximize my wintery-weather experience for just long enough that I can come back to the warm when I get sick of it.
So long as I'm attending school, and have no personal control over the temperature of my living space and no car to get around in, I'm more than happy to stay in never-freezing, almost-never-raining SoCal.
But I do miss seasons. There are always flowers here... it makes me sad that I can't appreciate the coming of spring as much as I used to.
