It's spring again. Everybody knows it's spring again.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Ah, Spring! The season marked here by a rain-soaked carnage of worms and slugs on the pavement. The plums are blooming and heartbreak is in the air.

There's my little ray of sunshine.   

[Requia ☣]

It's snowing outside right now, but somebody do me a favor and bump this is a month when weget spring here in Utah. 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

It's snowing outside right now, but somebody do me a favor and bump this is a month when weget spring here in Utah. 

There is no spring in Utah, I'm afraid.  It's due to an ancient curse the Mormons called down on themselves.

[Luna]

Ah, Spring! The season marked here by a rain-soaked carnage of worms and slugs on the pavement. The plums are blooming and heartbreak is in the air.

It's spring.  My heart can go hide in a hole for awhile, I'm sick of listening to it whine.  I'm gonna take a walk after work, maybe find a park, sit under a tree, and read awhile.

[Suu]

You know Roger, I had a really disgusting revelation coming back from Florida on Thursday. I knew something was up. I don't typically cry when I leave my family, because, most of the time, I'm screaming, "GET ME THE FUCK OUT OF HERE", but all I did was look at the weather screen (Tampa International has really nifty displays at each gate with details about your destination) and I almost hit the floor sobbing.

The one thing I miss about Florida is the lack of seasons. Okay, I take that back, there ARE seasons, and all joking aside, it's not hot, hotter and lovebug, there's a definite summer, a definite fall, and a definite spring, they just sorta tend to melt together if you don't pay attention. Either way, you don't get Seasonal Affective Disorder. You get, "Christ it's hot." or, "SHIT IT'S FUCKING COLD", but that's about it.

In December, winter is pretty. In March, it makes you suicidal. I shouldn't have had to come home to no leaves on the trees or daffodils popping the ground. This cold snap is going to delay them another MONTH now, and the very thought to me is downright disgusting. We won't have "spring" until it's summer. I have nothing to look forward to until it's almost too late. It hasn't been raining either. That means May is going to be atrocious; 70 degrees and non-stop rain for weeks, to make up for this.

We don't have the hope of spring here, it was taken from us by force. It was taken from me the minute I got off the bus in Boston and realized that the mere 50 miles that separates the cities gave us a 20 degree difference in weather, and I was shellshocked, wearing nothing but a thin hoodie and flip flops on my way to Florida. I knew, I would be doomed when I came home.

People always ask me why I'm miserable. THIS PLACE makes me miserable, but I have to stay. I made the commitment to work and go to school here, and until that education is complete, I can't really leave. I can't afford relocating to another school, and even then the only places that have my major on this coast are the Fashion Institute of Technology, NYU, and the University of Georgia. I couldn't afford the move to Athens, GA and know nobody around there, with no car, right outside of the largest and most densely populated cities in the Southeast away from the coast. I'd be trapped and suffocating in the Dirty Dirty, and no one would hear me scream.

Manhattan...I could do. You don't see the seasons there. You just feel them, and even then, temperature in The City is no indicator of the outside world. It's not the location, it's the cost. FIT is within reach, though their undergrad is not what I want, but NYU, my top choice for grad school, will be impossible. Especially with the loss of the Pell Grant program. So, I say in RI, I get the URI education with in-state benefits, and pray I don't die or kill someone in between.

You saw summer in RI. You saw a cold front, you lucky bastard. Remember that rain? That constant drizzle and the gray skies? That's what spring is. And if it ain't coming this year, Summer is going to rape us even harder than Winter, and we'll be comparing temperatures in the hundreds come July.

Yep. I got a whole lot to look forward to.

[Suu]

Thanks Roger, I needed this!




I will, of course, be cursing up one side and down the other if it truly snows again this week....  it's obligatory.

The funniest part of this is the teabaggers howling and hooting about how this must be "global warming", sarcastically.

Humorous part is, it IS.  This is the next stage, as ocean currents change and more and more water evaporates at the equator, causing much of North America and Europe to get nice and chilly.

...It's actually a pretty standard weather pattern. We just haven't had one in a while. Lawl. Climate Change.

Perfectly normal, perfectly healthy. [/Dr. Drew.]

[Requia ☣]

It's snowing outside right now, but somebody do me a favor and bump this is a month when weget spring here in Utah. 

There is no spring in Utah, I'm afraid.  It's due to an ancient curse the Mormons called down on themselves.

You mean moving to Salt Lake?

[Requia ☣]

Also, we do have spring, it lasts for a week in mid April, and then winter comes back until summer starts up.

[Jenne]

I liked this one, Roger.    Spring is struggling through this last vestige of what can count for a Southern California winter...I'm hoping it visits for at least five days while I camp in the desert next week.  

[Absolute_Silence]

Spring was here two weeks ago (40s, sunshine) then Mother Nature got a bug up her ass and hit us with snow, sleet, thunder and lightning. Now we're thawing again.

But by god, I'm looking forward to planting my mini-garden (as much as I can in a tiny ass apartment) and hitting the city sidewalk sale in a few weeks.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Spring was here two weeks ago (40s, sunshine) then Mother Nature got a bug up her ass and hit us with snow, sleet, thunder and lightning. Now we're thawing again.

But by god, I'm looking forward to planting my mini-garden (as much as I can in a tiny ass apartment) and hitting the city sidewalk sale in a few weeks.

I spent the 90s in apartment buildings.  The one thing I noticed was that the people that had gardens on their patios/balconies seemed to be much happier than the people that didn't...Although I suspect the gardens are an effect, not a cause.

[Luna]

Dunno, Rog, I find I'm much happier if I get a chance to play in the dirt.  That's one of the things I'm gonna miss about the house.  Sadly, I know better than to try a window box garden or anything.  I kill houseplants just by looking at them. 

[Suu]

I should really get a vase and some flowers now that I have a table to put them on. Maybe I'll hit a florist on the way home or something.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Spring was here two weeks ago (40s, sunshine) then Mother Nature got a bug up her ass and hit us with snow, sleet, thunder and lightning. Now we're thawing again.

But by god, I'm looking forward to planting my mini-garden (as much as I can in a tiny ass apartment) and hitting the city sidewalk sale in a few weeks.

I spent the 90s in apartment buildings.  The one thing I noticed was that the people that had gardens on their patios/balconies seemed to be much happier than the people that didn't...Although I suspect the gardens are an effect, not a cause.

Believe it or not, gardening actually has some proven mood-lifting effects.

I am almost always happier when I'm gardening for at least an hour a day. I used to spend a lot of time in my garden... my ex hated it, he thought my priorities were all wrong. I haven't started my garden yet this year. I'm running late. I bet I'll start to feel happier as soon as I start it.

[Cuddlefish]

Nothing more to add but  Great post.