Aach...ye speak like a poet, but ye punch like one too...

PUNCH LIKE A POET

Thursday, April 27, 2006
  
Rabbits, et al

It's probably rather poor form to break a week's silence with a post about bunny rabbits, but that's precisely what I'm going to do. Perhaps the unbearable cuteness of this post will atone for my last, which doesn't seem to have raised nearly as much riotious laughter as I'd hoped.

The University of Victoria, where I have been taking classes the last two semesters, is overrun with rabbits. Hundreds of them. And not wild, rangy Texas jackrabbits either. These are bunnies. Cute button noses, fluffy fur, heartbreaking watery eyes. Walking to class in the early morning you pass dozens of them littering the lawns and landscaping on campus. They hop around, nibbling on grass. Most of them are so used to students you can walk within feet of them without drawing a reaction. Although the baby rabbits that have appeared in the last couple of weeks are more skittish about strangers.

It's like going to school at Watership Down, although I have trouble imagining these little guys as violent or as vicious as the rabbits in Richard Adams' book.

Speaking of school, this morning I took my last final of the semester, which (if my calculations are correct) should be the last final exam of my undergraduate career, not counting the two correspondence Spanish classes I still need. Huzzah!

And, just for kicks, here's a panoramic shot of downtown Victoria and the Olympic range across the water in Washington, taken a few weeks ago from the top of Christmas Hill near our house.

# posted by Daniel at 2:45 PM.