Trapped in the Midwest?

I was going to write about something a bit more deep and profound, but my brain is feeling a bit fried at the moment so that will have to wait.  

These past few days have been feeling more cool and fall-like.  However, whenever the weather changes and it starts to get cold outside, I am reminded of how cold and depressing and long winter is.  Uhg, I hate being cold.  In winter I'm always cold.  If the weather is like is was last year, we will pretty much just skip over fall and go right from summer weather to winter hats/coats/gloves/scarfs weather.  It's dark at like 4:00, which makes me want to hibernate in my apartment and never leave.  Sure, celebrating Halloween makes a reappearance in college, which is fun. But it's not the same at all as when you are a kid.  

Okay, enough negative things about the cold.  There are some things that I LOVE about fall and winter.  I love wearing hoodies and sweats.  I love the spirit of the holidays.  I love that Thanksgiving and Christmas break are coming up. I love pumpkins flavored things and apple flavored things.  I love the look of the changing leaves and the look of snow covering the ground.   

Most of the typical fall activities (carving pumpkins, hayrides, apple pickings, etc.)  I probably won't even get the opportunity to do.  I want to go apple picking! 

Sadly, college has instilled in me a deep, dark, hatred (okay hate is a little strong) a dislike of winter.  Having to ride my bike in freezing cold to class every day is not fun.  One solution would be to try to get a teaching job in a warmer state so that I don't have to deal with winter weather.  I really can't see myself leaving the Midwest though.  I'll be student teaching back home in the Chicago suburbs.  After student teaching, I will most likely apply for jobs in that area.  I don't want to move far away from my parents.  I like Illinois.  I like the flat, dry, corn fields.  I don't need to be by the mountains or by the ocean or by the city.  I think that the ordinariness of Illinois fits me and my personality.  Therefore, I think I will always be "trapped" in the Midwest.  But that is okay with me.