Signs of Spring

This weekend rang in true spring for me, and the weather today was actually warm, with daylight lasting from early morning (pre-6:30 am when I dragged myself to my car to head to work), and is still out at about ten to 8. Impressive! It’s like it just happened out of nowhere, too, though I know I’ve waited too long for this to not be a surprise.

Today was a day of seeing different worlds in a couple very familiar places. First off, I handed in my final paper for the semester with a heavy sigh of relief as that weight was lifted from my shoulders. Our professor had extended them until today, and instructed us to drop them off at the department office. I’d never been up to that level of the Fir building, which of course sounds pretty stupid for someone who’s gone to this school for way longer than normal, or let’s just say “on and off over the last few years.” Ahem. Anyway, alternate universe. When I returned down from the 4th floor, I didn’t stop on the 2nd like I usually would and kept going to the 1st floor. BLAMM-O. The much spoken-of music department. Classrooms with people playing huge brass instruments that I can’t remember the names of. Giant battered lockers. The token humming lights overhead that flatter no one.

I’m not doing anything any justice in my descriptions, but how foreign to discover something new in an every day place.

On the same theme, I’ve discovered Wall St in East Van here along the waterfront on my edge of things, and somehow this whack of decent pricey-looking houses line this street, and it’s quaint and pretty, smells like ocean. The view is beautiful, though obstructed by some trains and other industrial crap, but it is definitely a sliver of awesome and a new walking route to take. I was absolutely gleeful at the realization that some of the cherry blossoms (of the Yoshino variety, I think) are already out and smelling sweet.

I also stumbled upon a tiny patch of grass with a bench overlooking the water. The sign said “Meditation Park” and I think I’ll be paying some visits there very soon.