Am I living in England?

Or Seattle? I'm sick of all this cool, gray, misty weather we're experiencing in the northeastern US, which seems to have been going on for weeks. Every day the weather report is the same: clouds, showers, "12 degrees below normal for this time of year." It's all caused, the apologetic weathercasters tells us, by a "slow-moving low-pressure system" parked over the Great Lakes. I wonder how many millions of people are barbecuing in their garages today.

Shiny streets and a sky the dull color of concrete--day after monochromatic day. Break out the Prozac . . . .