Ah,
sweet springtime. The grass has turned into a coloring book green. The bees buzz in
the air with abandon. The dust trail of pollen hazily hovers in the air. Summer
is but just a reach away, so close but just beyond the fingertips.
When
it comes to thinking of spring time, so much in my life revolves around the
ending of a school year. In younger days, spring time would mean a field day
where classes would compete against each other in relay races and tug-of-war
pulls. Later, it would mean the end of homework for a season and the thoughts
of sleeping late or a midday fishing trip with my brother.
In
college years, spring time and the end of the school year brought crazy study
sessions where so much of what had been studied in previous weeks just had to
find some way, through two Mountain Dews, two Snickers bars, two cups of
morning coffee and no sleep, onto a test. It also meant the start of the search
for a summer job and reconnecting with friends back home, if only for a few
months.
Nowadays,
I work for a school. The approach of summer lost it’s meaning many years back.
The school doesn’t roll up the sidewalks then store away the buildings until
late July. There is plenty to do until August returns and my to-do checklist
for the next academic year begins months before the first due date for a
student test for the fall semester. Despite this, almost every year, I will get a twinge or two of
spring fever, a few moments when I want the current school year to end, just so
spring can finish up and get summer started.
Back
in the day though it sometimes felt we had to give the semester one last push,
maybe not across the finish line, but at least a bit closer to the finish line.
When we felt that need, someone in our group would take a trip to the nearest
video store and secure a movie we knew would motivate us to keep moving until our
spring fever subsided. That movie would be “Animal House”.
So,
in case you have caught spring fever and have this need, a real hankering, for things to move along a bit
maybe these three minutes from that movie can help pull you closer to the line
you need to be to make it through into summer. Sit back, enjoy, “Shout” if you
must. I’m just going to leave this right here in case you need it.
from the movie Animal House
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