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March 17, 2008
March Is the Hardest Month
Three mornings in a row now we've awakened to snow on the ground. It's always been gone by 10am. This morning is no different. It doesn't seem to bother either the snowdrops or all of the bulbs that are pushing through, but it's making me a little crazy. I'm kind of done with winter now, and the snow and the grey days, when combined with some petty human stuff, make feel just a tiny bit like lying down in front of a bus.
On Friday, it rained. And then it snowed. Then it was sunny. It rained some more. Then it hailed. Hard. For a good twenty minutes. Then there was more rain, and then the sun came out, briefly, before setting. When we got up on Saturday, there was snow on the ground.
On Friday, I really started feeling the cold I'd been denying for much of the week. By the time dinner rolled around, all I wanted to do was lie in bed forever. Shivering.
I'm really done with March now. Really. Could we please move on to April with its warmer rains and actual sunshine and fewer colds? And the knowledge that there are only five weeks left of the semester before a whole entire summer of not school and bureaucracy-related silliness? A whole summer of sleeping enough and doing what I feel like and maybe doing some traveling?
Wait a minute. If we skip to April, I'll miss the daffodils.
Never mind.
Daffodils and narcissi are worth a little suffering.
Posted by sally at March 17, 2008 08:15 AM
Comments
So, you asked how L.A. was... I have 3 words for you...
warm and temperate.
Now that you hate me and the blissful, delicious sunshine I live in 90% of the time, I will say that L.A. really is pretty fantastic. I actually love it here - strange as that may seem! I am teaching a lot (musical theatre to kiddos 3-17), which is keeping me busy for the time being. I love it! And it is nice to actually be utilizing my degrees! I feel like a very fortunate minority! How is the 'Scow? I definitely miss some people from those parts, and the Palouse is gorgeous, but I don't miss the rinky-dink itsy bitsy-ness of it! Keep in touch, friend!
Posted by: Courtney ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.sallyacious.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at March 17, 2008 06:46 PM
I too am way, way, way over the winter, but it seems here in Chicago we still have a frozen lake and will have two weeks of really cold rain intermittently broken up by hail and snow. I can't wait (insert heavy eye rolling here).
Maybe you should find yourself visiting Chicago this summer. We are very fun!
Posted by: fire4hairlady at March 17, 2008 08:08 PM
Courtney - I'm glad you're loving it there. Me? L.A. is not my kind of city. (I deleted your email address. I've got it now, the rest of the world doesn't need it.)
Heather - Chicago? In the summer? Isn't it nasty there then too? Only in the completely opposite way?
Posted by: Sallyacious at March 18, 2008 06:58 AM
Well for June and the beginning of July Chicago is awesome wonderful fantastic! Just great. Can be a pinch humid but not annoyingly so. In July and August (and sometimes into September) it can be pretty hot and annoyingly humid (but in the evenings usually fantastic!). And then there are the few weeks of heat waves that strike and they can be pure hell on earth, if hell was the inside of a wet oven.
Posted by: fire4hairlady at March 18, 2008 04:50 PM
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