February Doldrums
February is the worst month of the year. I've always called them the "February Doldrums" because you're tired of the cold and the pace of summer is too far away to picture clearly.
7 years after my last semester of college, I still find myself thinking in terms of winter = school/summer = break. Working for a company with a May fiscal year end probably exacerbates that.
You can take things even farther back in time and see that it's interesting that our agrarian rhythms live on long after we've disconnected ourselves from any actual reliance on the cycle of the seasons.
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