It’s Furious Balancing

For those of us who suffer from Reverse Seasonal Affective Disorder, August is — for me — the emotional equivalent of February. Let’s see if I can describe it: You’ve been snowed in at the cabin for two months.  It’s still snowing and the sky is a uniform slate gray color.  You’re down to your last can of Spaghettio’s with Sliced Franks. You’ve developed a disturbing facial tic. All you can get on the shotty cable service is The Weather Channel and Mexican soap operas — the un-funny ones. The taxidermied moose head on the wall is beginning to talk to you¹, and you have urges to clean your guns. You don’t own any guns. At night, the ice weasels come.²

Now, if I think about it, there are several nice things about August:

• It’s not July.
• The Fall issue of Interweave Knits (with a nice 20-point type face announcement on the cover about “Knits to Chase the Chill”).
• Back-to-School sales. There’s nothing that gets my Office Supply Geek going like back-to-school sales, especially since I don’t have to worry about any of that back-to-school stuff. I also have that end-of-summer schadenfreude thing down pat. “Your summer vacation is over? The angels weep for you…”

Things are getting better all the time.

1. Redrum! Redrum! [↩]
2. With a nod to Matt Groening’s Life in Hell for those ice weasels. [↩]

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