@Vox: Haha, I live on the east coast too! Unfortunately, I don't get to avoid the doldrums at all :/ I go home for the summer when it is really hot, and then to the mountains for the frigid winters. Yay, all of the extremes!
@Everyone: You guys are all cracking me up, and my friends are starting to think I'm crazy! (Well, more so than they already did, anyway).