Monday, February 11, 2008

The groundhog is full of crap

The sources I saw all agreed that Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow so we are in for six more weeks of winter. I'm all for more winter, even in this drought of snowboarding I'm enduring. But I have reason to think that Phil might be wrong this year. Some of you have had the pleasure of observing my yearly spring ritual of getting my short "schoolboy" haircut which makes me look about five years younger than I already do. Inevitably, my right hand then gets a workout extracting my ID from my wallet over the next month or two as my hair grows out. Well this year my schoolboy haircut came February 5, markedly earlier than normal. I didn't intend to get it cut this short this early, it just kind of happened. My ever imaginative hair cut person suggested a shorter cut, and it seemed like a good idea to me at the time. This can only mean one thing - spring in on the way. But I sit with a near blizzard raging outside and me feeling like I should be prancing around like some pretty boy in an American Eagle add. Yikes, not a good combination. Perhaps I subconsciously jumped the gun with the haircut in anticipation of the Chile trip and plans-in-the-making for a spring back country snowboard trip in the Sierras or Cascades.

5 comments:

Nancy said...

I never knew you had such aspirations to be an American Eagle model.

Matto said...

Maybe that came across wrong - no aspirations...just fear.

kungfuramone said...

Yeah, just don't end up doing any Abercrombie ads. Unless you're in the market to start exploring alternative lifestyles.

Mariah Crystal said...

dude, you are hilarious. i never knew you were more predictable than the groundhog in predicting spring! wow! here it is quite gloomy and dark.
I MIGHT START MY OWN BLOG, dude!
ha ha!
and btw - i want to come on the CA ski tour...we shall see.
haute route next??!!??!!
- m

Trust in Steel said...

Remember the effects your schoolboy haircut and signature sideburns had at Lucky's awhile back. Be careful!