Spring swaps snow for leaves

and add some rain.

I must have gotten pretty oblivious in the few weeks before I went home 'cause it's pretty springy here right now. The leaves are coming back--there's a tree down in south campus with pink flowers all over it now. Right now it's pouring. Irish pouring though. The rain here is so weird. You can't hear it and you can't see it. You get soaked through really quickly though.

So yeah, I think that was a very successful vacation. I hate that going home was a vacation though. It kind of put a damper on things for me knowing that I had to turn around and leave again. It was great though. I needed it. The flights back here were alright. The one to Chicago was a full flight and I was in the middle seat 'cause I didn't get to choose online. It's alright though 'cause I slept through most of it. The second flight there was no one next to me. That happened in September too. The movies changed and none of them looked good, so I just kind of did nothing. I tried to sleep through most of it, but couldn't really.
Flying west is like you're chasing daylight, and flying east is like you're meeting daylight. They're both pretty cool I think.

Today in sociology tutorial we had to talk in groups about people who wear pajamas in public. I thought it was pretty funny. The first question was what immediately comes to mind when you see someone in pajamas. Lazy was popular. Knackers/tinkers were also popular. Those are people of the "traveling community." They're Irish gypsies basically. Anyway, my group made me talk, and after having, before all this, to to sit through half an hour of a group present "what it means to be Irish" by reading power point slides word for word or reading long passages from an article we all already read, I needed someone to speak intelligently on the fly and no one else seemed willing. I'm not saying they are stupid. I'm just saying the specific people in my tutorial suck at public speaking. I don't think they have to give presentations a lot. I remember doing this kind of shit back in Elementary school. Anyways, a group before us said that it's a "girly" thing to wear pajamas in public, and apparently it is never done by people in school. So then I got to show off my American-ness and be like yeah, people wear pajama stuff all the time out in public. In high school, to the grocery store, Walmart, the gym, wherever. And it's guys too. They thought that was funny. One girl was shocked about the high school part of it. So, it's another cultural thing I guess.