My favorite time of the year is from October 1st to December 31st. It's a beautiful 3 months. The weather is great for the first six weeks, and for the last six weeks it's cold but not painfully so. I get to drive around with the windows down, the sun goes down early so there's more night time, and there's all the fun of the anticipation of the holidays: I personally think the "season" is more fun than the holiday itself. There's my birthday, and that's always fun. The end of the semester generally isn't fun, but it's part of the season I guess. The stress of the end of it all makes it that much sweeter when you actually finish the pair of death finals on the same day, get the giant paper turned in, and you get to just cruise on your way home to see the old amigos once more. And the season ends on two or three weeks of vacation, and the promise of more vacation to come.
Bring on the leaves falling, the end of Daylight Savings Time, and my birthday celebration in a campus Chinese restaurant with Christmas lights strung up all over the inside. I can't wait to go home and live in what feels like luxury compared to the day-to-day here.
And I'm so throwing a 2-night LAN for CS2.