just another day

As far as Valentine's Days go, this one didn't even make the map. As far as regular days go, nothing special but not awful. I think that, for me, Valentine's Day has become one of those holidays like New Year's Eve and 4th of July (ok, 3rd in Chicago) that I've just learned not to expect anything out of because really, the fact of a particular calendar date doesn't make it any more likely that unrealistic expectations will be met or exceeded and, when you bank such expectations on a calendar holiday (as opposed to some event grounded in reality) you just increase the probability of a letdown. I don't need letdowns.