What is January For, Anyway?
Like Arthur Dent and Thursdays, I could never get the hang of January.
You look forward to the holidays, to the Christmas cookies and the pine-scented candles and the Brotherhood holiday wine, but what's to look forward to after the old ball drops and they haul Dick Clark out to pasture for another year?
I remember looking out the window of my Lake Ave apartment in January 2000, frantic with the fear that it might never...stop...snowing, and that I wouldn't be able to make it out of the house to restock my meagre provisions.
At the same time, though, I feel like January - and maybe February, too, another month I don't get - should be set aside for the solitary (i.e., indoor) contemplation of all those spiritual messages that come to you during Advent, the season of anticipation, and Christmas.
It's hard, however, to stay inside when the temperature is 56 degrees (tomorrow, it's going to be 64!) Despite what they tell me - that this is abnormal - I've now been through what, three mid-Atlantic winters? I'm not impressed. Winter gods, bring it on.
In the meantime, I've been trying to think of some other purpose for my January. Any ideas?
You look forward to the holidays, to the Christmas cookies and the pine-scented candles and the Brotherhood holiday wine, but what's to look forward to after the old ball drops and they haul Dick Clark out to pasture for another year?
I remember looking out the window of my Lake Ave apartment in January 2000, frantic with the fear that it might never...stop...snowing, and that I wouldn't be able to make it out of the house to restock my meagre provisions.
At the same time, though, I feel like January - and maybe February, too, another month I don't get - should be set aside for the solitary (i.e., indoor) contemplation of all those spiritual messages that come to you during Advent, the season of anticipation, and Christmas.
It's hard, however, to stay inside when the temperature is 56 degrees (tomorrow, it's going to be 64!) Despite what they tell me - that this is abnormal - I've now been through what, three mid-Atlantic winters? I'm not impressed. Winter gods, bring it on.
In the meantime, I've been trying to think of some other purpose for my January. Any ideas?
posted by Christine Borne at 9:07 AM
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