Calgary Pretends It’s Spring

Early March. I know, know mind you, that it is not spring in Calgary. Winter waits in the mountains for its last three or four kicks at us; experience tells me this. And yet, life is doing a damn fine imitation of spring. Why? The weather is gorgeous, the sky is lightening in the mornings, and staying light longer at night, I’m seeing more roadkill on the drive to and from work, and I have my nasty evil spring cold, which keeps me from enjoying all the above. Well, except the roadkill. I don’t particularly enjoy that, so the illness is not keeping me from it…

Class is gearing up for the last rush towards the final, and though this cold has put me very behind schedule on my term paper, everyone around me is sure I’ll get it done just fine. Of course, I’ll likely get it back on the last day of class, reread it, and think, “My God, what was I on when I wrote this?” and then remember that I was sick, but it won’t be the first time! I must say, in presumptuous retrospective, that I’ve really enjoyed this class, the whole going back to school thing, though I am/was a little concerned about the lack of spare time. I have a feeling it’ll only get worse when I finally do get accepted into the Master’s program, but that’s just something to accept and deal with.

Plans roll ahead for the summer. I’m making a list of things I want to do, and I’ll try to squeeze hopefully most of them in around work (which is really, really busy), and our two-week trip to Denmark in August. I’m also hoping to update here a little more often, once I can actually think about other things again. This, along with the birthday and anniversary cards I haven’t sent yet, makes me feel guilty. I hope you all know that, in those few minutes between consciousness and unconsciousness in the depths of night, you are all in my thoughts!