{"id":889,"date":"2014-02-14T17:56:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T17:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/class2017\/?p=889"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:27:13","slug":"valentines-day-and-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/class2017\/2014\/02\/14\/valentines-day-and-the-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine’s day, and the Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019m not going to say what I got, because my girlfriend might be reading this and I don\u2019t want to spoil anything.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Valentine\u2019s Day. For me, it\u2019s both a good thing and a bad thing. It\u2019s a bad thing because I\u2019m over here and all my family and loved ones are back in Oregon, so I can\u2019t really talk to them or spend a lot of time with them except for the brief moments of skype or Facebook IMs. That makes me sad, because I would like to spend more time with them.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Valentine\u2019s Day is a good thing because I can spend time recollecting on why I love my family. They\u2019ve supported me, encouraged me to do the best I can (although sometimes it feels like there\u2019s some disconnect between what I feel is my best and what everyone expects to be my best. I chalk it up as normal stress, but sometimes it feels like a giant sky bison is fighting a lemur while being cheered on by<\/p>\n

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It makes sense in context… also, Chakras<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

sheep and then a six armed Indian guy floats by and sings about Chakras… okay, I\u2019m getting distracted). Anyway, my parents are awesome, and my whole family is awesome. I might not see them a whole lot, but I\u2019ve gotten to thinking \u201cWell, I might not see them a whole lot, but that means that I have to make the time that I am with them as special as possible\u201d. and that\u2019s what matters in the end; that we spend as much time with the people that we love, and even if we don\u2019t have a lot of time together we get a chance to make it really special.<\/p>\n

If this is sounding depressing, I blame the weather. I like snow and all, but I don\u2019t like having to walk around in it day after day, always having to be careful in case there black ice somewhere beneath the snow drifts (although seeing the \u201csnow gophers\u201d is always amusing. I\u2019d get some pictures, but they\u2019re camera shy). I heard we\u2019re supposed to get 50 degree weather and rain next week, and my inner Oregonian is going \u201cyay\u201d because admittedly I have more experience with rain than snow (and I won\u2019t have to worry about slipping on ice). So to all potential Wabash students out there reading this blog, if you love snow I\u2019d say come here to Wabash, if you don\u2019t… well, still come here to Wabash, because Wabash is awesome and the snow will melt eventually.<\/p>\n

Oh, more Valentine\u2019s stuff. One thing I don\u2019t<\/em>\u00a0care for\u00a0about Valentine\u2019s Day is the mass commercialism that seems to permeate 99% of all holidays. I do not enjoy seeing copious amounts of pink and red merchandise bombarding me, and I especially don\u2019t like the heart shaped chalk they call candy and the magazines that tell you to \u201cspice up your love life\u201d.\u00a0 I find it insulting that companies will browbeat and push people into accepting their definition of beauty. It\u2019s even more insulting if a guy tries to make his girlfriend see things in the way that the magazine advertises; my girlfriend is perfect the way she is, and I don\u2019t want her to change into some \u201cidealized\u201d definition of beauty because then she wouldn\u2019t be the girl I know and care about.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Happy Valentine\u2019s Day. Stay true to yourself, love each other, don\u2019t run with your spears and enjoy your time with your family.
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