It's the height of the February blahs, and I say, "Enough already!" In February, 1997, we took our daughter to an orientation session at the University of South Carolina, in Columbia. Traveling in from Lake Erie regions, I was thrilled by the warm sun, the warm breeze, the pink azaleas, and the lack of snow. Many years later, when I moved to Georgia, I was looking forward to those glorious February days. But now, I've been here 10 years, and I find that the weather has changed its tune, and here I am, sick and tired of gloomy, gray, and grouchy February 2015. This month's weather has been the coldest February (here) I can recall, and the rainfall is plentiful. Sometimes I imagine that the temperature plunges, and that we have the same 100 inches of snow that Boston does. Oh, good, a SNOW day! So here I am, whining. I still have to get out of bed each morning and go to work, where my colleagues are also whining. Worse than that, everyone--faculty and stu...