Happy April, ladies and gentlemen. Hopefully we will have many May flowers and only a few April showers. I completely forgot about April Fools’ Day last Thursday, but I hope the rest of y’all celebrated somehow.

In the new “Alice in Wonderland,” Alice claims that sometimes she believes as many as six impossible things before breakfast. I, like the Mad Hatter, think that is a very good practice indeed, and one in which I want to start engaging. I thought you and I might try it today (even if it’s past breakfast time). Here goes, six impossible things:

1. There are four weeks left of school: 19 days (including today) left to pull up your (and my) grades in classes (or on the flip side, plenty of time left in which to majorly screw up in your classes, so be careful!); four weeks (or maybe a bit longer if you count exam days) left for you slackers to find a place to live next year; five-and-a-half weeks until summer (so you better figure out where you’re going to work/intern/take classes); and for you seniors, and you may want to be sitting down for this, approximately 37 days (depending on your college) left until you become real people. Good luck with that.

2. Somehow trees and flowers know when and how to start blooming: I know there’s a “scientific” explanation, but I’m convinced that people who give “scientific” explanations are just stringing together a bunch of hard-to-pronounce words, and what they really mean is “magic.” (This is how I explain anything I don’t understand, like how all the original members of ZZ Top are still alive, or how the census could possibly be statistically accurate — magic.)

3. Butler made it to the NCAA Championship game: Hooray for the underdog! I’m writing this Sunday, so I don’t know if they will/have won the game, but I think it’s really funny how messed up everyone’s brackets must be/have been. (Writing simultaneously in the future and past tense is pretty fun. And confusing. Quite Carroll-esque, actually.)

4. UT is a dry campus: I’ll leave it at that.

5. That a plain yellow pumpkin can become a golden carriage — and a plain country bumpkin and a prince can join in marriage. (Yes, I kind of cheated with this one, the concept of impossibility was built in with the lyrics. Let me take a moment to say that if the only version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” you’ve seen is the ‘90s one with Brandy as the lead, please watch the one with Julie Andrews. Brandy is cool, and everyone should have Whitney Houston as their fairy godmother, but Andrews is just wonderful.)

6. Time flies — or as the French would say, “le temps passe vite” (This is one of the two French phrases I know, so I hope I got that right. The other phrase is from the movie “Moulin Rouge,” and I’m not allowed to say it in public. This made for an interesting time in Paris, but that’s another story for another time.) Back to the topic: Life goes on whether I realize it or not (See number one concerning how little of the semester is left), so I’m trying to pay better attention. For example: One day you’re hanging out with your friends in high school, then next thing you know several of them are getting married. (You know who you are.) I’ve had months to adjust, and I still find this strange, but that’s life, right? It just goes on and on.

If you haven’t seen the new “Alice in Wonderland,” go see it. I like things that make me pause and question how I go about my “normal” life. Really, I think it’s just as odd that flowers bloom when they’re supposed to here, as it is that flowers talk in “Wonderland.” It’s all about perspective, I guess. Believing six impossible things before breakfast … what a lovely habit.

— Leigh Dickey is a junior in global studies. She can be reached at [email protected].