August

August 1, 2009 | Filed Under Main | 3 Comments

Today begins the month of August.

I hate August. August is one of the rings of Hell. Dante actually wrote about August, though he didn’t call it that specifically. But I knew…

August is a dead month. Our grass is always dead. It is always too hot and muggy (and this is always true despite the fact that Seattle and Jersey have switched weather patterns this year. Seattle is having its first true August). But most importantly – nothing happens. Nothing. No one is at work. No one answers emails. No one answers phone calls. Offices are closed. No one pays bills. No one makes decisions. No one’s around! For students – you’re just waiting to go back, start school again. Your parents are waiting for you to go back, too. Waiting , waiting, waiting….

This is why most people vacation during August – and why it is too expensive to vacation during August because EVERYONE is vacationing during August! Because this month SUCKS! It is the tail end of all Life. Think of it as the last month of the true school year. A school year is from September to September. And work is the same. In September – everything comes alive! Phones ring, people are at their desks, new jobs come through! August is a whimpering slog going from the first to the 31st. A misery. For me, one August in Boston was so bad I was having massive panic attacks. Often at restaurants or at work (panic attacks in public are a joy). I think I even had an inhaler that month to help me breathe. The sense of not knowing and not being able to do anything about it is hard on a control-freak. This August will be no different as both Kerry and I try to see our way clear of this little experiment.

August first means there are only thirty days left until the end of August. Here’s to looking forward to Labor Day. Here’s hoping I learn to breathe through this month.

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  1. Mike August 3, 2009 7:26 am

    See..August was why God created golf. There is nothing else to do but play a sport where you drink beer while playing, have a designated spot (the 19th hole) to drink after playing, then go to a sports bar and sit outside talking about your golf game while, you guessed it, drinking. If not for golf, I would 100% agree with you. It is also the 4 weeks of hell I have before school starts dealing with students and parents waiting to the last minute to register and wondering why they can’t get the classes they want and why they have to pay for them. If it wasn’t for golf, I would probably be in some form of detention facility for wanting to hit these people with a 2 x 4.

  2. mburma August 3, 2009 11:33 am

    But mainly the beer, right?

  3. Mike August 4, 2009 6:07 am

    Always beer for me..Although some of my golf partners on my Florida golf trip will drink vodka or scotch during rounds, I find you play better if you hydrate and de-hydrate at the same time. I have actually had beer, water, and Gatorade open in the cart at the same time.