dol·drums (dōl’drəmz’, dôl’-, dŏl’-)
1. A period of stagnation or slump.
2. A period of depression or unhappy listlessness.
A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits: blues, dejection, depression, despondence, despondency, dolefulness, downheartedness, dumps, dysphoria, funk, gloom, glumness, heavy-heartedness, melancholy, mope (used in plural), mournfulness, sadness, unhappiness. See feelings, happy/unhappy.
I woke up in a serious funk this morning after realizing that it was STILL 85 degrees outside in the middle of September and that Fall is nowhere to be found. I’ve been trying to figure out if it counts as ’seasonal depression’ if I’m in misery about the fact that no one has informed the weather here that it should have shifted from Summer to Autumn about 2 weeks ago. I’m in no mood to knit anything because I feel like I will never be able to wear woolen items and will be stuck in sandals and capris (I don’t wear shorts outside of my home) forever. As a transplanted Yankee ‘the time formerly known as Fall’ is the worst time for be to be contented with living in the South. I have fall leaves on my computer’s desktop wallpaper for Dogs sake! Listen up pathetic excuse for a fall.. this is what I want!!!
- I want to drink my coffee and tea hot without melting into a puddle
- I want to open the windows and turn off the air conditioning which has been running since May.
- I want to wear shoes that have closed toes and aren’t made of plastic
- I want to wear knee socks with my skirts
- I want to wear jeans and boots
- I want my makeup to stay where I put it on my face
- I want my neighbors to stop mowing their
golf courseslawns every weekend - I want to wait for my son at the bus stop without nearly having heat stroke
I’m going to go crank up the air conditioning, find something to knit, and make myself a pot of tea now that I’m done petitioning for a change of seasons.