Counting Down...

It's been nearly 10 years since I eagerly greeted the arrival of May as the start of the official countdown to the end of a semester. Can you say home stretch? It certainly feels like it, in spite of the mountain of work that will fill many a lonely, caffeine-filled night in its quest for completion before I can waltz off campus for a much-needed summer break. Perhaps I'll even catapult my textbooks giddily into the air in tribute to the quintessential "school's out" shot from just about every teen movie ever made? Then, in September, I can recreate the ubiquitous "back to school" montage used in every other teen movie (Grease 2, anyone?). Um... perhaps not.

Can you say Spring Fever? That's what happens when the sun finally shows itself after a something like 40 days of rain over a two-month period. Even my tiny umbrella collective was threatening to strike, used and abused to their very limit. Of course, just as the first warm, sunny weekend of the season lands in our laps, I'll be hopping on a plane out of here tomorrow. Great timing.

Well, I hope this sunny weekend I'll be missing is only the first of many gorgeous weekends I'll get to enjoy, homework-free, in the coming weeks as I'm finally given the chance to explore and better acquaint myself with the great outdoors of this glorious new city of mine. Without getting soaked.

Posted by ayelet at April 27, 2006 03:46 PM