Sure sure...Summer is fun. Fall overflows with memories and reflection. Winters are both dreary and always remind me of love. But Spring. Man, I fuckin' LOVE spring.
I've never really felt this way in the past, so I imagine it has something to do with Boston being a total shithole for 9 months out of the year...but when spring time rolls around I am just SO happy. I put on headphones and ride my crappy bike all around town listening to embarrassing music...
(If you've ever wanted to challenge my masculinity, you will NEVER EVER have a better chance than this. This is on my playlist now. Though I s'pose it's not too much of a drift from Bjork...)
...while I swerve rhythmically into traffic as I bike-dance...
...I walk around Harvard square for the first time in months without wanting to kick someone in the face just for breathing...
...I actually tilt my face upwards to bask in the sunlight in my own version of phototropism as I walk, somewhat blindly, through crowded campus walkways...
...I check the weather and triumphantly proclaim "LOOK! 64 degrees! We HAVE to go running!"...
...I refuse to study for exams and stare out the window at people coming around and trees leaving (that was for you RS)...
...I order iced coffee for the first time in 9 months...
...and all sorts of other things I don't feel like listing...because it's really not that interesting. Just awesome.
Seriously though, I think Spring has got to be the coolest fucking thing EVER. All those crazy dogwoods and cherry blossoms and flowering trees exploding in crazy colors for like 2 short weeks...and leaves with a glowing and translucent greenness that almost breathes with intensity.
Of course, the flipside is that any minute now my allergies are going to make me want to sever my own congested head off with a chainsaw and my final set of exams are around the corner, damning me to spend the next two weeks buried in the deepest inky corners of Langdell Library instead of lying on a large rock somewhere in the sun listening to ridiculous 80's covers like this (by Bird and the Bee)
...but being totally happy.
(you can ignore whatever lame photo montage the video maker put together for this song...and click on it anyway...and yes. I still listen to normal music. You fuckin' bastard.)
3 comments:
Glad you're enjoying the weather. Hope exams aren't too hard on you. We won co-ed soccer intramurals today, so yay for us! Yay for weather!
Also, I thought you might enjoy this (if you haven't already seen it):
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2008/04/bjork_wanderlust_index
- hauben
i'm really glad that guy didn't cut his own head off with a chainsaw just because his allergies were getting to him.
fuck, i've gotta go take an exam now.
I did see that...so bizarre...
Where have you been man? I haven't heard from you in ages, although I have heard you will be in ATL with M. this summer. (I said that she is within her rights to force you to take her along on nice restaurant excursions with the firm.)
You still gardening? I want a garden but I keep living in stupid cities...
...Maybe I should just email you...
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