people never look up anymore.
i know that light pollution is a huge problem, and is quite depressing, but even from major cities, you can usually see a star or two. people never look. i wonder why this is, and i wonder when people stopped looking.
i always look. i don’t really know why, but i always do. perhaps it’s just ingrained, from being interested in space, and from all those chilly nights lying under blankets on the tennis courts with dad, looking up. last night it was cloudy, but a few nights ago, as i drove home from ron and buzz’s, orion was brilliant, and high in the sky. sirius was bright and steady. all the stars were twinkling like they always do.
gavin mentioned yesterday that we will have to study up on the southern sky before we go to peru. ee gads! i hadn’t even thought of that yet! we’ll get to see a totally different sky! the southern cross! it will be so cool.
last night, i vegged. got home from work at 6:30, popped in a tv dinner, and sat on my butt on the couch. i watched smallville. i watched the o.c. i contemplated doing my taxes, but didn’t. i hung curtains in my bedroom. i didn’t run. and i didn’t shower till this morning.
it was great.
full-time life is hectic. my first few months of full-time, no-more-school work were slow, but the past year has flown by. it seems like i always have something to do in the evening, so going straight home from work and staying there feels like such a luxury. i don’t think i have anything on the schedule for tonight either, except a leisurely 3 mile run (my last before the race), so hopefully i will just lounge at home again. watch friends. watch the apprentice. watch someone get fired by donald trump.
i never used to watch tv. when i was little, we were only allowed a half hour of tv per day. and now it’s always on. sometimes for the shows, sometimes just for the noise. and i know what shows are on each night. how pathetic. it’s probably turning my brain to sawdust.
three more days until the half marathon, on sunday. the webpage has this very cool feature where you can sign up to track any runner, and it will send a message to your email account, pager, or cell phone whenever the person crosses the splits, and the finish line. i don’t know what the splits are, but i’d imagine it’s probably 5k, halfway mark, 10 miles, and finish, or something like that. in any case, i already signed my parents up, but if anyone out there would like to receive emails or text messages on sunday as i am running, you can go here, put in my name, and sign up!
