Monday, March 29, 2004

Heavenly Springtime

The quad is full of the signs of spring. No not robins, no not leaves on the trees or even buds, not the sound of a rake scraping across the grass. Rather it's students all over the grass. Right now we have a football being tossed, a Frisbee, two guys with lacrosse sticks tossing a lacrosse ball and some would be soccer players playing the equivalent of hacky sack with a soccerball. There are numerous young ladies vying for the how little can I wear and get the guys to stare grand prize. But what amuses me the most is the 4 guitarists with at least one playing Stairway to Heaven at any given point in time.

Stairway to Heaven the right of passage for anyone who has ever learned more then three chords on a guitar. I'm proud to say I strum the guitar and I do know more then 3 chords but I have never learned the StH pick progression. I made a solemn promise to myself to go to my grave not knowing how and I have vocalized this to my friends and family.....and yet the other day I found a sheet of paper in my house that had the chart, handwritten on how to play the opening to Stairway to Heaven. Traitorous children. I'll have their heads for this. Leaving this temptation. I was alone no one would have known. aarrrrrrggggghhhhhhhhh

I threw it away after ripping it to shreds.

ba