spring switching

One of the nice things about living in a northern temperate climate is Spring Switching Day...if you've never heard of it, that's because I just made it up (see note below). But you know what it is. It's the day you put all your sweaters, hats, gloves, and warm stuff away in a drawer or shove it to the back of the closet, to make room for shorts and t-shirts. It's a great day, usually brought on by a long stretch of sunny weather. Happy Spring Switching Day! Sorry if it hasn't reached you yet.

I've also diagnosed the disease that's struck me lately as Spring Fever. I have loads to do, but can't make myself do it. I spent more time this weekend planning Earth Day festivities, posing for a photo shoot with a GEM car that a local pizza place started using, working on the SPEA backyard wildlife habitat, talking to prospective students, doing laundry, and of course, switching my clothes around, than I've spent doing work. And now I'm writing in my blog. But I just can't come up with any words for my paper right now! We're supposed to come up with a classification and restoration plan for the Jordan River- the creek on IU campus, not the real one- it was a great excuse to walk along the river today. And I actually got some reading done by the river. But now I'm stuck. Sometimes just writing anything will help the words flow, so maybe this can count...

Tunes: Rachael Yamagata, Happenstance- great CD, sweet female vocals, kinda like Over the Rhine at times

Note: to make sure I actually made up Spring Switching Day, I googled it. It appears original, but don't confuse it with the Polish Switching Day, which apparently "grew up in Poland over 800 years ago. Peasant boys celebrating the end of Lent and a lull in their farm work, would swat their sweethearts with red willow switches. On Easter Tuesday the girls would get even by switching the boys." (See story) Yikes. I guess it's a good thing to be busy in the spring.