"Spring is here again....

...reproductive glands"

-Nirvana's "In Bloom"

Aside from the fact that only Kurt Cobain could come up with such non-sensical garbage and still make it sound cool, you can't deny that spring is upon us... however, the lyric right before it is "weather changes moods", which leads me to the idea that sun and warmth almost always cheer people up after a long run (especially in Canada) of winter "blahs"........ the fact that the opening lyric of the song is "Sell your kids for food" has little impact on what I'm talking about.

It seems like just about everyone likes spring, and imho it's hard not to... but there are some specific signs that spring is here that I got to experience this week, so it has been driven home even more:

1. Rain smells different in the spring. It has a fresh smell to it. Maybe I'm crazy.
2. The first lawn mowing always smells great, too, for some reason.
3. I'm going to stop talking about smells, now.
4. I get brutal allergies, and can't figure out for a few days why I seem to have a spring cold, until I buy a superduperjumbo box of Claritin. Happens every year. You'd think I'd have caught on by now. But you'd be wrong....
5. You'd also think that this little subplot would make me loathe the spring, but amazingly not. I'm clearly a glutton for punishment.
6. Why am I adding new items for non-points in my arguement?
7. I'm clearly just trying to fill out this list to make it look more substantial.
8. I think I need to stop making lists.
9. Now back to my point....
   
10. Inadvetant sunburn.... okay, this hasn't happened to me yet, but I have several accounts of it happening to other people!
11. The first playing of Soundgarden's Superunknown, or any track from it, really. I think this first came out in the spring of '94, which would have been the end of grade 8 for me, I guess. No idea why this is significant in and of itself, but it just always reminds me of the spring. I think I first heard it right after it came out at my buddy's house when we were playing basketball in his driveway, and it just kinda stuck with me. I happened to hear "My Wave" on the radio today. That was nice.
    

Is there anything else that reminds you of spring that I haven't mentioned?

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