A fever and a childish wish for snow, again

With all this applying, I've come to realize that "Will you serve as a reference?" is my code for "I think you're a really awesome teacher/person/I have an intellectual crush on you/you are one of the main reasons I want to teach/please be my friend or at least think I'm a good student/please let me come to your office and tell you about my life and let me hear about yours."

I am focusing on this, my future, so I don't have to think about how I felt during snow last year versus how I'm feeling this year. Why is it that snow means so damn much to me? I am ridiculously sentimental.