at the request of a dear friend, i recently attempted to read twilight. after getting 300 pages in, i gave up. i suppose i'm not much for romance-y books. i'm more into crime, mystery and children fighting each other to the death. i'm currently working on reading 'the age of wonder.' it's extremely intriguing so far. it's one of those books that i wish i could small wonder. (small wonder: (v) to flip a book in front of your eyes and read the entire thing).
friday night orin and i had a nerd evening. i appreciate people who are willing to go along with my nerdventures. we were on our way to the science center to learn about the night sky and i was telling him that the only thing that i love as much as outer space is dinosaurs. anyway, we get to the museum and it turns out that it is... i kid you not... DINOSAUR NIGHT. the presentation was half about outer space and the other half about dinosaurs. it was a dream come true. after the presentation was over we met with the astronomical society.
those people were characters, to say the least.
there was a man who looked like doc brown and was showing me star charts from the 70s. and the indian man who smelled like expensive cologne. and the young guy who sounded like he was from west virginia and was very excited to be there. all interesting people. seeing them was almost as awesome as getting to use the telescopes. we were lucky enough to see venus, jupiter with her moons, a couple stars and a nice close up of the moon.
saturday i went to c-ville with some of the ladies and we picked apples. i must tell you that apple picking is far more enjoyable than strawberry picking. apple picking involves less physical labor, hunting and sweat. also, the apple place sells things like apple cider donuts, apple salsa and offers hay rides. it was a lovely day and i would go apple picking again. i probably won't ever pick strawberries again. unless they are free after i pick them.
so i was getting a facial today and i was telling the esthetician that i'm having issues with jawline acne right now and she responds, 'are you stressed?' i laughed.
i think if you had ten people and you asked them if they were stressed 8 of them would say yes. 1 would just start crying. and the last would be so far gone that she wouldn't even realize where she is. basically, what i'm saying is 'of course i'm stressed! everyone is!'
it also reminded me of an episode of 30 rock when liz's coworkers had done something especially ridiculous and she yells 'you're the reason for my jawline acne!' don't think that yelling that hasn't crossed my mind on several occasions. actually, in all reality my coworkers are pretty amazing. and they only drive me crazy a relatively small portion of my life compared to either (a) corporate or (b) party hosts.
speaking of coworkers, one of mine is growing a beard for me. last week i was telling him that i love when it's playoffs b/c he grows a beard and he looks really good in a beard. so today he walks in with what looks like 3 or 4 days of growth and says 'i'm growing this for you.' i cause hair to grow on men's faces. or at least a man's face. but hey, it's a start.
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I went to the learn about the night sky thing at the science museum where there are supposed to be people out on the lawn with telescopes - and no one was there :(
they only set up on nights when there's no cloud cover. so maybe there were clouds?
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