Mid-Winter Blues

A few years back, I was enjoying coffee and camel cigarettes at the Tom Jones Diner with a few close friends. I confessed that I had been feeling really lethargic for a good while. They were thoroughly amused by my statement, one because I tend to be overly dramatic from time to time, and two because, well, lethargic is a funny sounding word. You can't really hear someone say it in a serious sentence. My provisions of unintentional comedy aside, it was just a rough time of year. Women talk about that time of the month. Well this was that time of the year. It's the time of year in the winter, just after football season, and before there's anything else legitimately to look forward to. Uggggh, that time is now! If you're in school like I am, there's plenty of papers and projects to enhance the misery that is the Mid-Winter Blues. I'm not exactly sure how it feels for someone who is a full-time worker, but I imagine its pretty monotonous also.

Another problem with this time of year is that it always snows an inconvenient amount. (On the rare occasions Philly gets snow anymore) It's just enough to make traffic worse than usual and demolish hours of sleep/free time with shoveling and cleaning off the car, but normally not enough for school to be canceled. Normally I love the snow, but as you get older, it becomes more of a hassle. I just want to go back to the days where I could just play in the snow with friends and everyone was too young to have important obligations...or should I say still innocent enough to realize that many of life's "obligations" should be re-prioritized? I understand the values of hard work and commitment to an employer, but I also understand the dangers of becoming a cynical prick and losing the joys of youth, one such joy being a snowstorm.

So I'm just sitting here, lethargically typing away as I wait for something to break the norm. Sometimes, you just have to wait it out I guess, and hope that Wednesday night's LOST episode can hold ya over till the weekend. Who knows, I'm starting to get scatterbrained--even more so than usual--so I'm out...