As I was watching my roommate (also a design major) work on her design project last week, I remember fondly laughing at how her project entailed her having to break a pair of glasses to later photograph and edit in Photoshop. Prior to the breaking of these glasses, she let me know that she previously went to the dollar store to purchase numerous glasses for this project, and how utterly freezing she was by the time she returned.
As I continued to watch her rather interesting task she had to encounter for this project, I quickly found myself covered in goosebumps after five minutes had passed. Mind you, this was the first day of fall.
As my body heat fell to the stage before numbness, or so it felt, I came to the realization that this happens every single year. Summer (my absolute favorite season, and possibly the only season I really enjoy) always ends with the quick beginning of fall, which never really seems to bring the fall weather temperatures everybody always talks about.
Towards the end of each summer I begin to get a little chilly, evidently leaving the house wearing more fall colored sweatshirts and beginning to consume excessive amounts of hot chocolate. On the other hand, the second fall starts, it's winter. Like, literally winter.
While walking back indoors on that first "fall" day, I spent another five minutes with my hands under the hot sink water faucet, praying they would quickly unthaw then reach for the cupboards in search for hot chocolate. My recurring argument every year is why cold seasons, like the cold season of fall, extremely unbearably cold season of winter, and also the cold season of spring, consume basically the entire year.
I understand that it is my personal issue that I live in the North East, although I simply do not understand how everyone around me can stand it, and are not constantly loving summer and yearning winter.
Not that I yearn winter, because I do love being able to purchase the Bath and Body Works' Peppermint body wash, Starbucks' peppermint hot chocolates, peppermint bark, and peppermint mocha iced coffee from Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks. Well, besides my obsession with peppermint that looks way worse as I now put it on paper, I guess I really do yearn winter.
So, fall, please try to be fall for once this year and keep your temperature above the 50's. At least so I can have time to prepare for hibernation throughout the below-freezing-blizzard-induced winters.
