Spring is Here

Well, spring is here. I think I will head over to the park...

Spring is Here!

Spring is here! Spring is here!

And perhaps you think that means I'm poisoning pigeons in the park, but alas that is not so.

Do you know why today finally feels like spring? Well, first, the weather is nice and warm (74 degrees farenheit), and I went outside in a t-shirt and still felt warm. But, even more, today feels like spring because I am listening to the dulcet sounds of Vin Scully, who is announcing today's Dodger game. (I think it's the first game that he has announced in 2011.) Vin is awesome, and listening to his voice is what makes me feel like spring and baseball have truly begun.

A Quick Summary of Oxford

The weather has gotten really nice the past few days, so now when I walk by the Somerville quad to get back to my apartment, I see lots of students hanging out outside. At Caltech, I would expect to see some of them playing frisbee (which is what this type of weather puts me in the mood to do... let's play when I visit in a couple of weeks!), and admittedly I have seen them toss a frisbee on the quad before. The last couple of days, however, I have seen people playing croquet in one of the side lawns of the quad. Somehow this corresponds quite closely to my stereotypical vision of Oxford.

(I actually played croquet a couple of times when I was really young, and I would definitely be up for doing that again--even if I have to use a mallet rather than a local flamingo.)

In other news, there seems to be something rather hornet-like in my apartment at the moment. Sigh... I opened my window in the hope that it will leave, but that could easily backfire.

Anyway, back to work... (Oh, and the rant is still coming.)