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Wild Weather Around the World

The spoiled ones

So right now northern Australia is under water, tornadoes are ripping through the central U.S. and snowstorms are sweeping Russia – but I bet anyone could have guessed that it’s snowing in Russia!

In this post however, instead of focusing on all of the bad weather around the world, I’m going to selfishly talk about the nice weather I am, or should be, getting to experience in Gainesville. Even though it’s still technically winter, the weather in sunny north central Florida has been nice and balmy.

Unfortunately though, I haven’t had the pleasure of enjoying the beautiful 70-degree weather. Unlike my younger undergrad counterparts who seem to have nothing better to do than lounge outside in the middle of the afternoon, my days are full with classes, studying, work and Newszine.

Even as I write this at 10 p.m. after being in the Interactive Media Lab, the headquarters for Newszine, for eight hours, I’m still jealous of those freshmen I know were sunbathing in the lawn out in front of their dorms at two o’clock this afternoon. Ahh, those were the days. Usually I avoid the dorms on campus, but even so I still always seem to get reminded about what a beautiful day I’m missing from Florida’s sun worshippers. In the spring, which for Floridians starts in February, 99 percent of the time when I walk home from the bus, I pass highly-oiled men and women bronzing by the pool of my apartment complex. Hello? Don’t any of you have work to do? Places to be?

The only consolation for me, besides trying to enjoy the minutes I’m outside as I run between buildings and my car, is counting down the days until the weekend. That’s when I know I’ll have some time to enjoy the weather that makes people want to live in Florida, because I know it sure isn’t the 96-degree, 100-percent humidity days of August! I guess now all this spoiled Floridian has to do is pray it doesn’t rain…but even that doesn’t seem so bad compared to the rest of the world.