Spring

Spring is around the corner. Given, it's only February, but today was 45 degrees in Milwaukee. Biking to work I found myself stripping layers of protective winterwear, arriving at my destination with coat flapping in the breeze of my passing.

It's been an interesting Winter, since I've been stripped of my free bus pass that UWM provides. I could have easily counterfitted one (it's just a little sticker), but I decided instead to try and bike through the cold. Now that the weather has started to show signs of thaw, I can say that it was worth all the frozen beard hairs.

They have a name for the depressive feeling that arrives with winter's onset, but they have no real word for the elation of its passing. Everyone experiences the day when it is comparatively warm, it's hard to keep your self from smiling and inhaling deep breaths of newly melted Snow Air. It needs some kind of a label. If Seasonal Affective Disorder is the name for winter's negative mental effect, then Seasonal Elative Syndrome shall be its counterpart.

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