Today is the day to give advice.
Funny Ha-Ha is coming to the MCA TOMORROW!
While we certainly donÃt enjoy it, Chicagoans are a bit more acclimated to cold weather than those from warmer climates. (See: the Chicago Bears game last night where players wore short sleeves, despite the single-digit temperature.)
However, there is usually a rhyme and reason to the cold. Temperatures start to drop late October, but still, around Christmas, the cold is fairly manageable. IÃd say the balmy 30-35 degree range. I am sort of making this up because I donÃt feel like consulting an almanac right now. But IÃd say thatÃs about right. Usually January and February is when the bad cold comes. The holidays are over and warm weather is a ways away so we occupy our time with the kind of cold where you donÃt care what you look like anymore. You bust out your ugly, puffy coat and hunch your shoulders around your ears and put on a dorky hat because itÃs much warmer than your cute hat. Everything is dirty and grimy and your hair gets gross and your hands start to crack but itÃs the price you pay for a chilly but lovely holiday season where you can go ice skating or sledding or shopping. However, this bad kind of cold came early this year. As I type, itÃs 0 outside. Again, as a Chicagoan, I know what to expect from this type of temperatureóI call it snot-freezing weather, because, well, itÃs self-explanatory. There is a certain tingle in your nose hairs thatÃs sort of amusing at first, except the second you come indoors it all comes flooding out. WeÃre just not ready for it yet. Not pre-Christmas. So, for the first time, I find myself worrying about global warming. I know that I probably should have been worrying about this a long time ago, but now is the time when it affects the most important person in my life: me. IÃm convinced itÃs a global warming thing. IÃm not sure why, but I am. There must be some other place in the world thatÃs overly warm which is taking away from our warmth. From now on, I promise to stop doing whatever it is I do to contribute to global warming. Because while I might not have cared about this issue before, it hadnÃt affected me yet. And IÃm cold.