Everyone got sick at once this month.

It seems like this month everyone I know got sick at once.

A friend from the neighborhood slipped on the ice and fell and chose to stay home and rest up a few days, a grad school friend posted on Facebook that he was just feeling worn down and tired, and I was feeling that way, too, and that's apart from people at the rest home who I know who weren't feeling well, since a bunch of residents there all weren't feeling so hot all at once.

My one friend who slipped and fell on the ice said that the general shitty mood everyone was feeling was to be expected.

"The weather's awful and days are short and people's biological rhythms are off," she was like. "Of course people aren't feeling great."

Like a week-and-a-half after that, the sun was out, even though it was cold, and everything just felt different and more optimistic.

It really was sun, chasing away the winter wear.