Woodchuck on the loose!

http://urbpan.livejournal.com/490195.html
The fellow who took this video works at a wildlife rehab place.

Snowmelt

Equinox, at last. I can't remember if I was more relieved at the arrival of spring last year than this year. I'm tired of Northern winters; the novelty has long since worn off. What with all the freeze-and-thaw-and-freeze-and-thaw weather we've been having, the sound of trickling water has been pretty frequent at my apartment. (Yes, it's all outdoors.)

I've been complaining lately, mostly to myself, about how I'm bored and lonely and having a hard time keeping up with my schoolwork and don't have enough time and my job sucks. The truth is, I've started doing the things I want to do, bit by bit. Graduate school is part of that. I went skiing, after living here for four winters -- I stopped waiting for someone else to go with and just went by myself (well, with a bus full of strangers). I got myself something to leave my neighborhood for: the gaming group has so many events, I could spend all my free time on that if I cared to.

( rambly detail )

In any event, I seem to be a little bolder than I was, a little more inclined to just go and do whatever strikes me. I've been growing and stretching without really noticing it. Not the explosive growth of May, but the slow, steady growth of March.

Here's to spring.