:: Rebel without a coat ::

Thursday, April 20, 2006

I tend to think of the calendar year as a giant Monopoly board, with each side (roughly) correlating to a season and Go as New Year's day. You can extend this metaphor a bit, with Park Place/Boardwalk as Thanksgiving/Christmas, but once you try to find parallels to the thimble and top hat playing pieces it sort of breaks down.

We earthlings are creatures of routine, whether in Monopoly or the game called life (not to be confused with the Game of Life), and I've been noticing over the past year that right around the Pennsylvania and Short Line Railroads, when the weather really begins to change, peoples' clothing doesn't seem to follow suit immediately. Stuck as we are in our ways, it seems our wardrobe is a lagging indicator of the climate.

This Spring I vowed to pay more attention to the weather report and let a t-shirt suffice instead of throwing on a sweater just because I'd been habituated. I thought given the 80-degree high temperature predicted today that others would join me, but an unscientific sampling on the way to work concluded otherwise (mean number of layers > 2!), making me feel like some sort of fashion rebel just for wanting to avoid unnecessary insulation. Well, nuts to that. Forget everyone, I'm doing short sleeves.

Posted by morland @ 12:04 PM

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when do you start doing short pants?

Posted by: a superhero by night on April 20, 2006 02:45 PM

If every side of teh board is a season, should all the corners be equinoxes and solstices, meaning that Go would not infat be New Years, but more along the lines of December 21

Posted by: meteorologist on April 21, 2006 12:47 PM

Thus the "roughly". Plus I thought this up when I was five.

Posted by: morland on April 21, 2006 05:55 PM

Hillarious! I always ask people what their mental image of one year's time looks like... I've heard everything from a box, flat plane, staircase to an endless spiral... but NO ONE has yet imagined it just like I do... just like you do... a giant monopoly board. Once you make a full circle - start all over again! Aaahh what a relief! I'm not crazy afterall! ... or maybe I'm just not the only crazy person hehehe...
Love your blog, by the way!

Posted by: vedrana on April 26, 2006 10:10 PM

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