July: The most depressing time of the yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaarrrrrr!

(Note:  Title to be sung to the tune of Most Wonderful Time of the Year.)

Yeah, I said it. 

I should probably clarify that this mainly refers to teachers.  Our emotions can be accurately depicted with a bell curve.  From spring break until May we become increasingly less crabby happier.  After we have locked our classrooms or offices for the last time in a school year, we skip away at the height of our curve completely ignorant that another school year is peaking around the corner.

The peak starts to drop on June 30th.  On July 1st we awaken panicked and depressed because the summer is almost over.  We've accustomed ourselves to indoor hermit crab living and now we have to start preparing ourselves to enter the world of the living as pale zombie creatures scratching our way back to the laziness of summer.  Week 2 of July is usually a panicked succumber to time's constant passing with a realization that we have to do SOMETHING to classify the waning summer as somewhat productive. 

All the while, housework responsibilities tackled in the first week of summer vacation are creeping up because the last few weeks have been an emotional blubber of self-disappointment, self-pity, and last-minute plans "before the summer ends."  The downward spiral has already overtaken any power the already debilitated teacher has left. Thus the bell curve wins again and we bottom out just in time for all the kiddies to tell us their perpetual animated stories of what they did during summer.

Let's face it.  Summer is like chocolate.  We ALL love it but hate how we feel after shamelessly overindulging.