I’m still totally in love with this place and I still heart the winters, but good God February is a month that gets to you. It’s a month of same same sameness, every day the freakin’ same, and this year we get an extra day of it. Like, this episode of Dude Weather is from the 12th, but it really doesn’t matter one tiny bit that I’m posting it today.

I see from the Archives of Oblivion that about this time last year I was also posting maudlin entries. But hark! The one I was really thinking of is dated March 6! Because there are two more months of winter left in these parts. At least. (Alumni: remember that one time we tried to take a department photo in May and it all of a sudden snowed on us? Yeah. Crazy times.)

There better be snow, that’s all I can say. Fluffy white snow and penguins. And forced bulbs. And fondue.