Whinge

[hummingwolf]

Why is it that everybody always seems to have an overfull social calendar in October except for me? It's my birthday month and it's boring! Granted, I haven't exactly had the energy to hang out with people much this year... or last... or the year before... anyway. But even compared to the dullness of my other months, October is a barren wasteland--until the very end of the month. What the heck do all the rest of you do in the days before Halloween, anyway?!
And how come it doesn't involve my birfday???

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[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

It's the month we have our local sci-fi convention here in Fargo.

Or, well, one of 'em. The other one's in April, but it's new.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure many of the super-busy people I know are going there this month. It's possible, I suppose.

(Nice things about my birthday month: The weather is usually quite nice. Candy's on sale all month (cheap candy, but still)! Oh, and farmers markets have grapes.)

[magnifelyn.livejournal.com]

Well, I usually spend all of October thinking about Halloween!

You'd be welcome to visit us, of course. Lounge around in our pool by the lake. Marvel at how much hotter it is here. Listen to Boone struggle through "Happy Birthday" on his ukulele!

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I would love to hear Boone playing "Happy Birthday" on his ukulele. :-)

[magnifelyn.livejournal.com]

Well, if you want to visit, my invitation is sincere and it stands.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I wish it weren't so hard to get to Florida from here.

[megthelegend.livejournal.com]

I do nothing in October! Which probably doesn't help. ::g:: ::hugs you::

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

No, it doesn't actually help at all. :-P
::hugs back::

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

I dislike October intensely and then its made even worse by Halloween which I really don't like... lucky November 5th has fireworks on Guy Fawkes here in the UK or it'd be a long, miserable slog to Christmas

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

October weather here is usually some of my favorite weather of the year--pleasant temperatures (average highs around 23 C early in the month, a few degrees lower by Halloween), bright blue skies with fascinating clouds, nifty color changes in the trees. I don't mind the month itself at all. November can be a bit more miserable, though. What's it like where you live?

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

That better describes September here, which is my favourite month of all... October's starting out quite sunny but by the end it's dark and wet and gloomy, the nights draw in and I suffer terribly from SAD (and am rubbish about getting up early to compensate!), the leaves will have fallen to a soggy mulch and just, urgh.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

And I keep forgetting just how far north England actually is! And our Octobers are comparable to Liverpool's... summer? Can that possibly be right?! Well, if I'm correctly interpreting the climate data (and if the pages I'm looking at are correct), think of summer with shorter days, longer and cooler nights, far fewer genuinely hot days, stronger breezes, and less humidity. That's my October. Your October sounds more like the more miserable parts of our November.

[Edit: Forget the stuff I said about sunlight; I was misreading a few things there. You still are pretty far north, though.]

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

I think you misread things a wee bit for sure.. actually October thus far round here has been very nice, chilly but sunny which is good, though we'll be getting the first frosts in the next week or so and there's been a lot of rain elswhere...

We don't really get much humidity here and the hottest it tends to get in summer is into the low 80s max