What's the opposite of SAD? Cuz that's what I have.

I was depressed a few days ago knowing that the days are gonna get longer, and that I will now have the sun coming up earlier every morning, instead of the proper thing, which is to stay dark until late in the morning, and get dark early in the evening. And that in a few months, we will have an end to the constant beautifully overcast skies that blot out that damnable sun...

Every year, I think more strongly that what I need is to move to Alaska for winter and Antarctica for summer, and take a few weeks in between for a stop in Hawaii to get *some* sun and good, warm, perfect weather and do some ocean sports.

But SAD? No, I have the opposite. I get depressed when the sun is out too long.

a penguin and I claim my five quatloos.

and I shall flick them at you as fast as I can.

in Alaska? :D Or maybe a Scandinavian country.

Ingmar Bergman films must make you laugh too.

which might be a good idea, especially in Alaska in the winter - they might be in the need for some bright cheery artwork and be willing to pay my room and board for a few months.

And I find existential nihilism to be hilarious, especially when people die. Frozen, in the chilly wastes of a god-forsaken terrain. Really makes me feel warm and glowy inside.

Can't help ya there. I wish the sun was out and it was 78 degrees 365/24/7.

The average mean temperature varies just a bit all year around.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/weather/longterm/historical/data/honolulu_hawaii.htm

Love cold weather and hate hot weather. We're clearly in the minority.

I'm going to a place that's (hopefully) cold and sunny, Salt Lake City, Utah -- just for a visit.

I really like cold weather and finally can wear my summer clothes when it gets under 65 degrees or so.

I believe Seasonal Affective Disease (SAD) refers to ANY misalignment with weather, either cold or hot. I tell people I have SAD, around April-May when the days are lengthening and it's getting warmer.

I have found almost none who are like us.

I do like some of hte benefits of warm weather - I can put the top down, the trees are green, it's fun to go for walks, and enjoying a bbq dinner at 8 pm while the sun is still shining is kinda cool. But that coolness lasts about two weeks, and then I'm ready for fall and winter again.

:-)

I'd give up the warm days to have year round mornings that the sun doesn't show up until almost 8 am and is gone by 4:30 pm. I work better when it's dark outside, and I just plain feel better. Afternoons are depressing, and it's so hard to work with the sun shining - it's either screwing up the light in my work area, or bouncing off the monitor, or pumping too much heat into the room, or some damn thing.

But I sympathize with light affecting your ability to get shit done. It's just the complete opposite way, in my case :)

:hug: Alaska, maybe?

and that's just in Anchorage.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/weather/longterm/historical/data/anchorage_alaska.htm

My husband keeps threatening to put me out on an ice floe when I'm very old.

OK with me. That's apparently the way the Eskimos do it. I understand death by cold is not a bad way to go.

In peace,

Radio_Lady

I guess you'd call me a HIGH THERMAL.

Do you think it has something to do with where "your internal thermostat" was originally set?

F'rinstance, being born & raised in Miami, I get chilly at 70 degrees!

I love SLC, but won't go in the dead of winter. I've been in the spring and in the fall.

I hope you have a good time!

I was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, so I remember some snow, and then a BIG train ride.

In Florida, I recall being a sweaty little kid and was never acclimated to the higher temperatures in 28 years of living there. I've been told that the thermal center of the brain is fixed BEFORE birth in the nervous and endocrine systems.

OT: Since you're from Miami, did you read my thread in the FLORIDA forum or in the DU Lounge?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4496757

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=145&topic_id=6307&mesg_id=6307

All low thermals.

People look at me like I'm crazy when I walk around in a short sleeves and sandals most of the year.

In summer, I always have to be in air-conditioning, or the shower, or in the pool. After that, I run around in a wet bathing suit with any temp over 70.

I've been this way my whole life. While growing up in south Florida, my parents would send me to camp in western North Carolina and I remember those summers in the mountains with much delight (except I was always homesick... darn!)

I prefer to get up in darkness; and generally I prefer dark overcast to sun. There are always exceptions, of course, but it has to be a really *really* nice day for me to prefer the sun. Give me grey darkness at noon, I love that. It's one reason why I like the violent weather we have here in the midwest, because it can turn a sunny day into bizarre black-gray night in a few minutes.

I love dark mornings. There's something very comforting about them. The mornings in the spring and summer when the sun comes beaming in the window at 5:00 a.m. are dreadful.

This winter was a welcome relief to the very hot summer we had this year. Standing with the freezer door open was my solace! :)

I'm part Swedish. Maybe that explains it. :shrug:

appeals to us Norskis when the light never ends.

I'm same - hate long, hot sunny days. I get terribly grumpy in the summers - and should know better than to get my hair cut in August (because invariably I chop it all off....)

My mother has SAD, so its likely that I have something similar, but mine definitely has very little to do with the amount of light I take in. In fact, the less light, the better.