Housing and random thought

[debka_notion]

So yes, I have where to live next year: Village C118. Not what I expected, but it should work. Maybe I'll finally learn to do my dishes rather than putting it off. Maybe. One can hope. Last year I learned to clean regularly. This year I learned to sweep regularly. Maybe next year it'll be dishes. At this rate, I'll make a proper housewife someday. What I mean by that, I don't know.

So I was listening to a song called (in translation) "Autumn", which describes fall as "the summer that disappeared", at least as far as I can tell. "hakayitz shene'elam". And that is indeed the way people seem to think of fall. But- Spring isn't thought of as the winter that disappears... I know, people in general prefer hot to cold. But it's an interesting reflection. ANd I'm avoiding reading Catherine Bell, whose writing is entirely incomprehensible.

Comments

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

Well, strictly speaking, heat is the absence of cold -- cold isn't an opposing force. Maybe the same sort of idea?

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

So everything else is a relative lack of summer? Except that that's backwards... I guess I always thoguht of cold as an absence of heat, anyway, which would rather substantiate that idea anyways.

[tirerim.livejournal.com]

yeah, that's more accurate -- heat is the kinetic energy of molecules and atoms, so where there is less kinetic energy, there is less heat. cold is the lack of more kinetic energy; absolute zero is the lack of all kinetic energy. so the only way heat is the lack of cold is if heat is the lack of the lack of kinetic energy, which doesn't make much sense.

on the other hand, this doesn't matter much if you haven't discovered physics yet, which the hadn't when they were coming up with names for seasons. :-)

one thing that's interesting about whether you consider summer or winter to be the default -- in some cultures/languages, a year is referred to as a summer, whereas in others it is referred to as a winter. I.e. you talk about something having been so many winters or summers ago. My assumption is that this difference is correlated with climate, but I don't have data to back me up.

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

Wait, you're right. I had that completely backwards. Should not post while tired. Point still stands, though. :)