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April 13, 2006
Spring Forward
One of my favorite Eleanor Miller paintings, Wake of Boticelli
I know we're all supposed to be living in the moment and crap, but really, I'm only happy when I have something to look forward to. And I know I'm not the only person who feels this way. That's one of the nice things about blogging. You learn that you're not the only one who feels something about anything.
I can catalog 2006 via what I was looking forward to:
First my birthday, then Barrister's Ball, then Paris, then my SF trip, now summer.
The bummer is when there's too long a lag between things to look forward to, when it's just too ridiculous to be planning for something that's months off.
And right now, summer is still a bit away, but spring? Spring is in the air! Today was the first real, spring-y day in LA. I went for a walk in my neighborhood and all the West Hollywood home-owners (luckies!) were out walking their dogs, the men having dusted off their cargo shorts and given their pasty gams their first look at the sun in many moons. The women of course were still covered up -- wisely waiting for the tanning booth to remove the wintery white.
I still have a month of finals hell to go through, and I'm sure I'll be (even more) unwashed and Coca-Cola-addled over the next month, but already I hear, smell and taste the siren call of summer:
- Coconut lotion
- Laurie's summer barbeques
- Laying out on my patio
- Bad sunburns
- Baseball games with Penny
- Hefeweizen
- Jeff's's wedding, and his affianced's bachelorette party in Vegas, baby, Vegas!
- Tanktops
- Kickball and general shenanigans with Gloria
- Strict, flip-flops only dress code on nights and weekends
- Nights and weekends! With no studying!
- Sun, sweet sun
I can't wait. If only I could fast forward....
Posted by jen at April 13, 2006 11:07 PM
Comments
Are you guys registering for WAKA? Do you have space left on your team? I keep trying to get a group together to join, but I'm too busy/lazy to make it happen.
Posted by: Gwen at April 14, 2006 07:37 AM
Yesterday was a gorgeous day here. I was so happy to not see rain. It was finally feeling like spring.
Posted by: Dagny at April 14, 2006 07:48 AM
I will e-mail you, Gwen!
Dagny, today it's overcast again, bah.
Posted by: jen at April 14, 2006 11:41 AM
at least there's a baseball game w/ me tomorrow night! woot! giants for life!
Posted by: Penny at April 14, 2006 05:44 PM
Penny, now your blog URL makes you a Sox fan too. ;)
Posted by: Gwen at April 15, 2006 11:44 AM
What, it's not flip flops all the time already?
Posted by: Gloria at April 16, 2006 02:22 PM
I live in FL. Flip flops year round baby!
Posted by: Crystal at April 17, 2006 06:08 AM
Dude, we had 26 days of rain in SF in March and something like 12 already this month. So. Freakin'. Ready. For. Sun.
Posted by: Jeff at April 17, 2006 08:14 AM
mmmm... summertime. Backyard boogies, "ground" burgers (ha!) and lots of frosty beverages. We can only hope that by summer's end there will be a square watermelon or two to cap off an exciting backyard BBQ. love you, summer!!
Posted by: laurie at April 17, 2006 11:38 AM
us old ladies w/ bad feet can't really wear flip flops out anymore...unless we found a way to glue our orthotics to them. that would be a mighty classy look.
i've tried wearing them anyway - screw my stupid feet - but then i come home crying in pain...
Posted by: carolyn at April 18, 2006 06:24 AM