# WE Are In The MOST Depressing Time of year! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 6, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-in-the-most-depressing-time-of-year/432518 "2008-01-06T19:05:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-in-the-most-depressing-time-of-year/432518/41 "2008-01-07T22:45:34Z")
We are having a “January Thaw” in Boston-temps will hit 60 F tomorrow! But the gloom is real-the nights are long, and the Christmas lights are just a memory-except for OUR house-I’ll keep the tree up through February! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-in-the-most-depressing-time-of-year/432518/42 "2008-01-07T22:46:01Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] I hate you. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Oh well, nothing lasts for ever. Last night was our latest sunset of the year, so the nights will begin drawing in marginally from tonight. We’ve turned the corner. ---
**Author:** ![kaiwik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaiwik/32/3978_2.png) [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-in-the-most-depressing-time-of-year/432518/43 "2008-01-08T00:08:29Z")
The holidays aren’t over yet for us, today is Russian Christmas, tomorrow my youngest turns 15, then the 14th is Russian New Year, then several friends as well as my dad and my own birthdays. February is the worst, but as **Chefguy** mentioned we have Fur Rendezvous and the Iditarod to fill some of the darkness and cold before spring arrives, sometime in May. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-in-the-most-depressing-time-of-year/432518/44 "2008-01-08T00:11:25Z")
[QUOTE=kaiwik] The holidays aren’t over yet for us, today is Russian Christmas, tomorrow my youngest turns 15, then the 14th is Russian New Year, then several friends as well as my dad and my own birthdays. February is the worst, but as **Chefguy** mentioned we have Fur Rendezvous and the Iditarod to fill some of the darkness and cold before spring arrives, sometime in May. [/QUOTE] Followed by fall on June 1st. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![kaiwik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaiwik/32/3978_2.png) [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-in-the-most-depressing-time-of-year/432518/45 "2008-01-08T00:29:26Z")
Too right! Our seasons consist of either mud or ice, why do we stay? I am posting from next to the Toyo! ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-in-the-most-depressing-time-of-year/432518/46 "2008-01-08T00:40:01Z")
[QUOTE=Yllaria] Second, It’s my birthday today. Yay. [/QUOTE] Happy Birthday! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-in-the-most-depressing-time-of-year/432518/47 "2008-01-08T00:52:12Z")
[QUOTE=ralph124c] The holidays are over-all around us, the Christmas lights are going out (sob)..and the darkness presses. We haven’t got a holiday till Valentine’s day! Meanwhile, the bleak days of january assault us-we just got our friendly “reminder” from the IRS, that income taxes are due! How do YOU cope with the January slump? :mad: [/QUOTE] Hush child. You obviously haven’t been around this rock long enough to experience depression that knows no time or space, that can last years at a time. Until you have, you’ll pin depression on such silly things as sunlight and the calendar. Those that HAVE had those experiences know: With darkness is calm. With snow, there is quiet. With winter, comes spring. (And women with spring wardrobes, hubba hubba!) Unintentionally “For the first time in awhile, my soul is at peace…it is my hope that it lasts awhile.” Blank ---
**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-in-the-most-depressing-time-of-year/432518/48 "2008-01-08T01:16:19Z")
Why are taxes depressing? You get MONEY! [QUOTE=Unintentionally Blank] With winter, comes spring. (And women with spring wardrobes, hubba hubba!) [/quote] Yea, Spring clothes are nice, but wait till you see summer clothes! Bikinis! woot! ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-in-the-most-depressing-time-of-year/432518/49 "2008-01-08T02:32:48Z")
[QUOTE=BlueKangaroo] I don’t know what you do, but I think I want your job… To answer the OP, I haven’t figured it out yet. I didn’t used to feel a slump, because classes would start in January, so I was busy planning for that. Then the slumps never ended. Now I’m having to figure it out, but I’m already noticing the days getting a hair longer, and the puppy is growing and I’m searching for a job. Generally, things are okay for me. [/QUOTE] College prof . . . winter break! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-in-the-most-depressing-time-of-year/432518.md?page=2)