4.16.03. 12.15am.
and the livin' is easy.
today felt like summer. driving with the windows down, sweating a little when walking outside, attractive people walking around in less clothes. there was that verging on muggy feeling in the air, that in a few months will be much stronger and make you feel as if you're trying to breathe at the bottom of a bowl of lobster bisque, but for now is a pleasent reminder that the fruit guy is probably selling fruit near campus again.
i believe i just may get out my scooter.
it was the kind of day that makes one want to walk outside, and makes one want to sing while walking, and sing something peppy, perhaps some pop hits from the fifties, or a nice medley from carousel. not that i know carousel, but i believe it to be peppy.
i spent my walk home from work making up physics problems and solving them, laboriously, in my head, while listening to alanis morrisette sing about, you know, angst. it was gratifying to discover that i have not entierly lost my capacity for doing math in my head. it was also gratifying to discover for myself that, mathematically speaking, it is a bad idea to step in front of a speeding bus. i can give you the figures if you want them.
passover is tomorrow - late this year. usually it sits in the rainy end of spring. and while i am told that tomorrow will bring "scattered showers," it is undeniably, as i have stated above, the start of summer. as a side note, i believe i have come to a slightly different understanding of the seasons in the last four years of my life. winter, spring, summer and fall; they all mean something different to me than they did when i lived in the land of summer fog and it's-always-sixty-eight-degrees-plus-or-minus-two. i'm not sure which i like better.
one of these mornin's
you gonna rise up singin'
you spread your wings, and you take to the sky
but til that mornin'
there ain't nothin' can harm you
your daddy and your mammy standin' by