Spring is here ....FINALLY !!

Life is like the weather ....you will only appreciate the warm sunlight after weeks and weeks of dull, cold and cloudy days ; but never during the hot summer time .

So here I was feeling all frustrated with life, wasting my precious years towards a meaningless degree (I will change it to a meaningfull degree the day I get a paycheck that does'nt look like minimum wage !!) . When after a long cold and gloomy winter , spring is finally here like a breath of fresh air ...hmmmmm . Today was just the kind of day everyone needed to treat their cabin fevers as we bid adieu to the days of dressing up like eskimos.

After 4 long years in the US , it has yet never stopped amazing me , how perfect strangers can carry out conversations for hours just discussing the weather . There is so much to talk about , the seven-day forecasts, the high pressure , low pressure areas, thunderstorms, tornadoes, wind speeds, last years temperatures for the month . Personally too, weather talk has been quite an ice-breaker (pun intended !) in many a boring potlucks. My conservations with strangers can go as limp as my over-conditioned hair right after the "how are you ? " "I am good, thank you "....long awkward silence, " whats with this years winter , huh" ...blah blah blah.

But maybe this is a phenomenon limited to the states that actually have changing seasons ...I mean what could people in LA possibly have to crib about the weather. Except when the torrential rains hit them last month , even Leno could'nt stop talking about it ...see my point ?

Weather was just never a yap topic in India. It was always Shahrukh who came to my rescue there (Bless his soul).

My friend the other day casually remarked that she kept herself regularly updated on the latest weather from her basement lab, using the www.weatherunderground.com website.

So as days are getting sunnier and warmer, necklines are plunging and hemlines are dangerously rising all over campus . Except it's no picnic for me, as I puff and pant on the treadmill as a last ditch effort to get into a reasonable shape (from 'round' i.e) before summer time.

I know eventually I am going to start my cribs about the hot, sweaty days, the constant freeze thaw I go through everytime I get in or out of a building, and the sunlight till 9 in the night !!! Until then , I am just going to take in the warm sunshine of the spring .