Post Groundhog Day

A week ago, the groundhog saw his shadow, which traditionally speaking, means 6 more weeks of winter. I tried to explain how groundhog day works to some of my friends, but they didn't really get it. If he sees his shadow, which he's afraid of, he goes back into his hole for another 6 weeks. If it's cloudy, it means an early spring. Well, January was uncaractaristically warm this year, (though my dad says people say that every January in Victoria, which based on the past few years is true) and we had a beautiful first week of February, but today it rained. That doesn't mean anything though. It rains a lot here all year. It's hard to believe it's February already. The semester's barely started and I've got so much to do this spring that I just know I'll blink and it'll be over just like that. Every year older I get goes faster. Our school musical opens in 2 weeks and we are now in major, scrambling, cramming, panic, stress mode. But we'll pull it off, just like we do every year. Well, last year I did concession, but this year I'm actually part of the show, living my high school dream of being in the pit band. The music's really hard though!! It wasn't written for our level of playing I don't think. It's great practice to be pushed that hard though. And like most other things in life, it's not that hard after you work with it a bit. It really makes things easier once you figure that out.