Technically spring, and the eastern coast of the United States has just gotten its fourth nor'easter in just this month, and that means it's time for news articles about how people are tired and surprised to still be getting snow, even though Facebook memories keeps telling us that this has actually happened every March for at least the past four years.
Full disclosure: We are based in New England, which is infamous for not having spring. Mark Twain was writing about how we don't have spring back in 1876, when he said in a speech, "The people of New England are by nature patient and forbearing, but there are some things which they will not stand. Every year they kill a lot of poets for writing about 'Beautiful Spring.'"
Anyway, Mother Nature Network has written a helpful explainer on "winter fatigue," which is different from seasonal affective disorder. Seasonal affective disorder happens during the time of the year when it's dark for like 20 hours a day, which in these here parts is basically November through about January. Winter fatigue is when it feels like it's been winter for five million years and you're sick and tired of it, and it tends to set in around late February or March, when the days are getting longer and the calendar says teasing things like "First Day of Spring" or "Daylight Savings Time begins" and then another foot of snow gets dumped on your head. We are maybe possibly kind of suffering from this affliction ourselves right now.
MNN offers several helpful tips for dealing with winter fatigue. One is to go outside anyway, presumably to remind yourself that it's terrible out there so you can feel better about being cooped up indoors. Another is to bond with your fellow humans by complaining about the weather. After all, it's not as if "complaining about the weather" is the quintessential Boring Small Talk activity that people complain about other people doing when they want to sound deep.
The article also suggests you could do fun things while you're stuck at home; in a surprise twist, the author does not once mention the trendy concept of hygge, which is a Danish term that basically means to stay at home wrapped in a blanket, but mindfully. This term has especially become trendy in New England, where we really need ways to feel worldly and sophisticated about living somewhere with such dreadful weather. Our local bookstores prominently feature titles such as The Little Book of Hygge and Hygge: The Danish Art of Happiness in their impulse-buy sections before the counter, alongside other books about simple concepts that are cooler when another culture does it, such as throwing stuff away (The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Organizing and Decluttering, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning) and living in moderation (Live Lagom: Balanced Living, the Swedish Way).
All these concepts probably are healthier than the traditional New England way of dealing with nor'easters, which we imported from Old England: Panic-buy all the beer you can get your hands on, then drink it until the snows melt.
What we like to do during a snowstorm, if we still have power, is grab a fuzzy blanket, light some candles, and mindfully play some online slots.
And if we hit a big jackpot, we're moving somewhere warm.
Get in the fast lane, Grandma, this bingo game is ready to roll!
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