Signs You Might Have Spring Fever

This Saturday is the vernal equinox, which is just a fancy way of saying the first day of spring. Wooo-hooo! We're desperate for longer, warmer days and real, actual sunlight. You might even say we have "spring fever." But how do you know if you've gone a little cuckoo for the season of flower blossoms? We spoke to the world's leading spring fever experts (who may or may not be medically trained), and they shared some of the most common symptoms of this highly contagious disease.

You may have spring fever if you...

* Skip to class. Skip home from school. Skip everywhere.

* Wear shorts on the first day of spring, even though the forecast calls for a 112 percent chance of "flurries."
* Clean your room.
* Wear sunglasses. At night.
* Spray paint the bare, brown lawn bright frackin' green.
* Pack a picnic basket for lunch.
* Wear only pastels (even if you do look like a cast member of "The Golden Girls").
* Fill your iPod with a mix of "nature sounds" and songs with the word "sun" in the title.
* Spend all your hard-earned money from your after-school job at the igloo factory on a top-of-the-line tent so you can go camping...in your backyard.
* Ask your parents if you could help with their weekend "backyard maintenance projects."
* Dot all the i's on your English essay with smiling sun faces wearing sunglasses.
* Try to erase all signs of winter by melting lingering snow piles with a hairdryer while simultaneously hula hooping with flowers in your hair.
* Become obsessed with baseball's spring training news, regardless of whether or not you know a flutterball from a beanball.
* Claim to work up a sweat walking from class to class because "it's just soooo hot."
* Fake-sneeze all the time and blame your seasonal allergies.
* Begin each day by telling your friends how many days, hours, and minutes are left until spring break.
* Buy fresh flowers and tape the blossoms to the still very-much-dead tree branches.
* Eat popsicles for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
* Switch to Daylight Savings time a month early, just to get your internal clock ready.
* Write "FROSTY MUST DIE!!!!!" all over your notebooks.

Do you have spring fever? Or are you sad to see winter go?

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