Seeing Stars
So my nap was ok. Just ok.
Have you ever taken a nap
that left you more fuzzy and just plain nasty
than when you first laid down?
My nap wasn't like that.
But it's not like I feel like
running around the house naked & screaming "yahoo"
either.
Even though I do kindof want to.
But this nap did tell me:
"Get off your lazy *ss!"
To which I properly replied:
Ok.
And emailed the branch that I would NOT
be teaching an additional 2 classes
[totaling 6]
this Fall. Sigh. I think that would have meant, uh, DEATH.
What a weekend.
Let's just say I know what a CAT scan looks like
and how it operates now . . .
and how young people might feel when a parent
decides to "come out" at the last moment of a long weekend
before school starts . . .
Last night I laid out stretched on a polar bear blanket
and watched the stars into the night . . .
I couldn't find the Little Dipper. Or Orion.
Two of the only three constellations I know.
And to think I was in my own backyard.
Somehow, I felt saddened, yet relieved;
I couldn't even quite tell the satellites from the North Star . . .
which I think might actually be Venus?
What does such universal ambiguity mean?
posted by SquirrleyMojo @ 5:04 PM
9 Comments:
Ahh, just point to a sparkling dot and pronounce an interesting name.
No one will know.
And it's damned sexy.
I've had naps like that too where I feel worse than went I started. It stinks. Funny, my wife and I were looking at the stars last night too and saw a few satellites, they move pretty fast unlike stars. Squirrley, your writing always intrigues me ;-)
You're talking to a nap. That scares me. :)
If I nap on the chair, it's not very good. If I take the time to go to the bedroom and get in bed, it's a wonderful, relaxing nap.
Was there too much light in your backyard? Those are normally quite easy to find!
Orion chasing Taurus,
Lepus at his feet.
Canus major, minor canus;
Here the two twins meet.
Uh... yeah. I took an astronomy class. Useful, eh?
I try not to take naps...I definitely feel crappy after I do.
I remeber this to keep the planets in order from the sun:
My-mercury
Very-venus
Educated-earth
Mother-mars
Just-jupiter
Served-saturn
Us-uranus
Nine-neptune
Pickles-pluto
I hate naps that leave me felling what I like to term as "pissy mean".
And believe it or not, I learned the planets in order from the back of our milk cartons in elementary school. Talk about a long time ago!!! :)
waking up to "universal ambiguity"... I like that. Or maybe you pondered such things while stretching suptuously (and lazily;) and considering the worth of activity in general. Great picture to be sure.
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