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 By Jack Lepiarz Feb. 2, 2006 I have quite a bit of homework that I should be doing right now. An essay for English class, an essay for French class, and numerous worksheets in physics. Oh boy. I have been in a funk all day, after having an awful night's sleep, most of which I was awake for, and when I was asleep, was haunted by one of the worst dreams I've had in recent memory. I had a meager breakfast (cereal), followed by a meager lunch (a bagel), and a next-to-nothing after school snack (energy bar), since I immediately had to travel to a nearby school for a 4-hour rehearsal. Worse yet, I spent the first hour and a half tap dancing. I cannot feel my legs. Then, if that wasn't bad enough, I had to buy a friend a birthday present for his 17th birthday, and then immediately drive out to the airport to pick up my father. I finally returned home, after being away for more than 13 hours, at 8:00 P.M. Did I mention that my muffler fell off my car? What can I blame this awful day on? Simple. It's February again. If you hadn't guessed, I'm not fond of February. I despise February. February, as Garfield the cat once stated, "is the Monday of months. It's that month that's deceivingly short, lulling you into a feeling that it's ALMOST Spring, and then it hits you with a foot of snow. For the past several days (of January), it has been in the fifties and sixties. Today, the first day of February, temperatures plummeted to the low forties. While still relatively warm for the middle of winter in the Northeast United States, I'm not fooled. I know that February is simply biding its time, getting ready to show everyone how much it really blows. You see, in February, you're sick of winter. It's been cold since late October, and you're ready for it to be summer again. Especially for those of us that get to take the summer off. Especially those of us that get to move to a completely new area and start a new, exciting chapter of life in the summer. Wait, whoops! First you have to take mid-terms! Yes, it is impossible to make it through the month of February without at least one final (for single semester classes) or one mid-term. And then we have the "holidays." Don't get me started on Valentine's Day. If you want to know my opinion there, you can read my article, "Nice Guys Finish Last--a Response to 'Romance is Dead.'" President's Day? All right, fine, it gets me out of some school. But otherwise, the whole post-holiday withdrawal takes full effect. Christmas and New Year's are long gone, and now what do you have to look forward to? Maybe a birthday, as a strangely disproportionate number of my friends do, but otherwise, nothing more than Spring, which is usually at least two months away, if not more. I'd like to finish in the vein of Stephen Colbert by saying this: February, you're dead to me. ------------ About the author: Jack Lepiarz is a senior at Madison High School. Born in Waco, Texas, he lived with the Big Apple Circus for much of his early childhood, eventually moving to Madison, New Jersey, where he now resides. Although he is often described as stubborn and egotistical, he tries to keep an open-mind towards new ideas and treat people the way he would like to be treated. Email: Jackwuzhere42@aol.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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