late night/early mornings

the weekend was ridiculously mild for this time of year in korea. it snowed a bit the past few days, so i don't know why the weather was so agreeable. i took margo for another walk to incheon grand park today, wearing my heavy jacket. i was sweating a little bit underneath and on the way back had to take off my gloves. it was that warm.

i don't want to call anything prematurely, but the days almost felt like (almost!) early spring days. you know, the ones when you can just faintly smell the buds of soon-to-be-sprung plants stirring just under the soil. i hope to god it's cold as hell tomorrow and the next few days, cause i'd hate to get accustomed to that easy weather for a week or so only to have the cold come back even stronger. i'm going to be the safe pessimist and firmly believe that the real warm weather won't come around till mid-march, at the earliest. but i mightn't be able to stop myself irrationally hoping punxsutawney phil sees no shadow and ushers in the higher temperatures, meaning a melting of ice and decrease in the ladies' layers.