Where are you spring?

I'm starting to think that Spring may not even come at all this year in New York City. Its already April and it is still unbelievably cold! This has got to be the longest winter for me, for a southern California native, this is really hard to bear. Even my ten year old can't wait for summer! I think I fell asleep last November and I am slowly waking up from this deep and long slumber.

The last few months and weeks have been passing me by like one big giant blur. That's not good. I've been very busy with grad school classes online, I'm finally graduating this fall-- after four long years of study. It shouldn't have taken me that long, but I wanted to work and not be a 'po ass grad student anymore! I needed a balance, work and school, its working out pretty good for me can't complain!

Gone are the days I used to wear sandals and shorts in San Diego, day visits to the beach, and the constant warmth of the sun on my skin...

Spring, hurry up and get here already!

You're not that special.

 “A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
~Albert Einstein