Where is Spring? I took a little walk last night, and for one fleeting moment, I could feel spring in the air. It was the kind of air I could feel in my pores, the kind that felt like being buried under warm sand on the beach.

Then I was rudely yanked out of my seasonal fantasy by a wintry gust of nonsense from Mother Nature. Welcome to Radford, everyone, and enjoy the polarical weather.

Last Friday it was gorgeous. It was freakin' amazing outside. I even got a sunburn. I never get sunburns; I'm much too cautious with the sunscreen. But it was too nice outside. I was out of my mind. Now my face looks like marbled cheese.

The next day it was rainy, gross, heavy, and nasty. The air was like a fat, bourgeois, cigar-smoking jerk, perhaps the male equivalent of Mother Nature. "Your misery is my happiness' profiting! You shall never have sunshine, you shall never have warmth, you shall never have picnics on the river, you shall never fly a kite! Never! Never!"

I saw snowflakes today...in April. Snowflakes. In April. I had put on shorts today, but I just recently changed into a pair of pants and a sweater... ten days after Spring has been official...

I don't understand the weather here. I live about 60 miles away from campus, and you'd think that wouldn't make much of a difference, but it does. The sun will be out and you'll want nothing more than for your professor to cancel class so you can go frolic. But no, a massive swirl of junky clouds come in and dump this annoying little mist that doesn't make any puddles but makes the ground slippery enough to sprain an ankle on. My dad put it this way: "They turned off the heater and turned on the fans."

I like winter and fall better than spring and summer, but I don't want winter in the spring and summer in the winter.

It's gotten to the point that I wear floral shirts in protest of the cold weather we're getting lately. I also wore sweaters last winter when it was rather warm out. Didn't do me any good, but I did it anyway.

I'll get out of the habit soon, as these floral shirts look ridiculous under my wool overcoat and scarf.

Name: Sarah
Comments:
Damn, You would think we did not have anything better to bitch about then the weather. I agree it really sucks but it just makes me laugh to read all the drama it causes. Its just WEATHER> Calm down. I just like getting on here to read about the things peopl consider "problems" ! No one will ever be happy! NEVER< NEVER< NEVER! Its either too hot or too cold!!! :)

Name: Jeff
Year: Junior
Major: English
Comments:
I'll agree that weather changing is not new, but I've never seen it do it like this. I live in the temperate zone just like you but in my twenty years I've never seen weather go back and forth like this. NEVER. I'm the Vent Section Manager. I'm going to vent.

Comments:
"Is there a famous scriptwriter reading your editorials? I doubt it. A difference in temperature is not a new phenomenon. Spare us the drama; your Oscar is in the mail. "

I don't think I've laughed that hard in years.

Name: Jeff
Year: Junior
Major: English
Comments:
Where've YOU been? Only recently has the weather become consistent. It was in the seventies on one day and in the thirties the next! It happened more than once, too! And I'll overdramatize if I please :-)

Name: Kasey Moore
Year: senior
Major: comm/reln
Comments:
While I agree the weather is quite temperamental here in Radford, I don't know that I would go to the dramatic extremes that Jeff Davis attempts in "Where is Spring?" Just because we have some nice sunshine on one day and a little rain the next day doesn't mean that the air was "like a fat, bourgeois, cigar-smoking jerk, the male equivalent of Mother Nature." "Your misery is my happiness' profiting! You shall never have sunshine, you shall never have warmth, you shall never have picnics on the river, you shall never fly a kite! Never! Never!" Is there a famous scriptwriter reading your editorials? I doubt it. A difference in temperature is not a new phenomenon. Spare us the drama; your Oscar is in the mail.

Name: Jeff
Comments:
Too hot? TOO HOT?! YOU SPOILED NOVA BRAT! GRRRRR! ;-)

Name: rachel
Comments:
ok...now it is too hot. what happened to a transition from winter to summer??