Spring is not my favourite season.  Don’t get me wrong – I like that the snow and cold tend to disappear once spring has rolled around.  Autumn is a far better season.  Slowly cooling down.  Light shows in the night sky.  Camping and firepits.  Spring just can’t compete with a robust and multi-talented season sucha s Autumn.

What did spring do to earn my ire?  Constant temperature fluxuations.  +20C one week. -10C and multiple feet of snow the week after. What  5 minutes and the ground is soggy from all of the rain.  +15 on Sunday and -4 on Monday.  I’m sure you get the picture.   Spring is just fickle.  No consistency.  No attempt to establish a nice seasonal standard and stick with it.

I tend to start experiencing sinus troubles (or worse) during the spring.  Today, my nose feels like someone is pounding on the side of it.  Headaches.  Sneezing my brains out.  Watery eyes.  Confused nasal cavity that doesn’t know when to be stuffed or runny and so tries to do both at the same time.  Typical allergy type suffering.  Except…

I’ve never really been known to have allergies – excluding peanuts and the dogs – to spring before. 

Traditionally, at this time of year, I just catch some awful cold or flu due to the continual changes in temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure.  This year I think I’ll manage to avoid the cold *knock wood* but suspect I’ll spend just as much time whining about how horrible it is to be sick.

Which just plain sucks because it’s Robin’s escape from Dell party tonight.  She’s now officially laid off as of the end of her shift today.  She begins a new term position on Monday.  It’s a 6 month temp position filling in for someone on leave so there’s no guarantee her contract will be extended.  We’re not worried.  Yet.  Lots of companies are interested in her skills.  And, as we do enjoy teasing her, if she can’t find a job she likes, she can always fall back on teaching.  Robin is a former science teacher and from what I heard, she was a great one.

But I digress.  To sum up:

• Spring is bad
• Sinus colds are a pain
• Tonight we party like it’s 1999
• My next round of classes start Monday, May 5th
• Robin starts her new job the same day – no sitting around for a month blogging for her…
• I’m anxiously awaiting my final grades in my Winter 08 courses.  Likely a need to wait few more weeks before I know anything.

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