![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Celestial Dissapearing Act
May. 15th, 2003 11:28 pmAs I was walking about the apartment complex tonight, I sat down by the pool to sit and watch the lunar eclipse tonight.
The moon was about halfway obscured at that time, and with the city lights, high-flying dust/smog from Mexico that has been in our skies the last few days and just enough humidity for taste, the moon looked blurrier than Cybill Shepard on the last season of Moonlighting.
The moon was slowly being gobbled up and I say in one of the lounge chairs on the pool deck listening to a soundtrack provided by my now old 5 gig iPod. I would have gotten into the pool, but the two drunk girls in the pool made me think better of it. Their boyfriends looked from deck chairs of their own at the girls, rather than the skies.
During all of this, one of the bikini-clad girls politely gets out of the pool to throw away her unapproved glass container that held probably her 5th or 6th beer. She gets to the trash can and proceeded to slip, landing flat on her back. I stifled a laugh and turned my eyes back to the moon as she sought to right herself.
You get me alone, just being still and quiet and my mind starts turning and whirring. There's a lot going on right now. Another project has cropped up at work. One that's really got me stressed out and again will work toward creating a solicitation team that will ask people to move to the self-service web site that can allow our company to eliminate more positions... love this.
I have also been thinking how I have been feeling a little...empty. I can't say lonely, I've been around enough people lately, including going out to eat with Hans and Niama (AFFVC) last night. This weekend I'll have plenty of opportunity to be around others. I guess I'm just looking for something a little...more. Something deeper. I'm just not quite sure what right now.
Me just watching the skies, just looking at how the weather is for me, again.
Eventually, the final sliver of the moon disappeared. The moon didn't seem to go away, it just sort-of existed in a ghostly blankness. You could make out the space where it was, and it looked like a lingering chalk-dust remnant on a big blackboard.
The iPod decided to play Werewolves of London.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
buzzwords would be so proud.
I recalled a lunar eclipse a few years ago where the eclipse happened so close to the horizon that it was a big giant moon that was blood red, slowly disappearing into the darkness. much more vibrant and spooky than tonight's. This one seemed more that I needed to be on the moors searching for the Hound of the Baskervilles.
My attention span seemed to give out trying to wait for the new sliver to appear, so I moved on, grabbing the mail and starting to pack for whatever will happen in Galveston tomorrow evening. I'm still nervous about that, and I may speak more on that tomorrow, if I have time. It's also time for me to get breakfast for the team tomorrow. I'm threatening buying a few boxes of cereal and some milk and letting them have at it.
For now, just some music and bedtime. We'll see if I can clear out some of the dust and enjoy the weather.
The moon was about halfway obscured at that time, and with the city lights, high-flying dust/smog from Mexico that has been in our skies the last few days and just enough humidity for taste, the moon looked blurrier than Cybill Shepard on the last season of Moonlighting.
The moon was slowly being gobbled up and I say in one of the lounge chairs on the pool deck listening to a soundtrack provided by my now old 5 gig iPod. I would have gotten into the pool, but the two drunk girls in the pool made me think better of it. Their boyfriends looked from deck chairs of their own at the girls, rather than the skies.
During all of this, one of the bikini-clad girls politely gets out of the pool to throw away her unapproved glass container that held probably her 5th or 6th beer. She gets to the trash can and proceeded to slip, landing flat on her back. I stifled a laugh and turned my eyes back to the moon as she sought to right herself.
You get me alone, just being still and quiet and my mind starts turning and whirring. There's a lot going on right now. Another project has cropped up at work. One that's really got me stressed out and again will work toward creating a solicitation team that will ask people to move to the self-service web site that can allow our company to eliminate more positions... love this.
I have also been thinking how I have been feeling a little...empty. I can't say lonely, I've been around enough people lately, including going out to eat with Hans and Niama (AFFVC) last night. This weekend I'll have plenty of opportunity to be around others. I guess I'm just looking for something a little...more. Something deeper. I'm just not quite sure what right now.
Me just watching the skies, just looking at how the weather is for me, again.
Eventually, the final sliver of the moon disappeared. The moon didn't seem to go away, it just sort-of existed in a ghostly blankness. You could make out the space where it was, and it looked like a lingering chalk-dust remnant on a big blackboard.
The iPod decided to play Werewolves of London.
buzzwords would be so proud.I recalled a lunar eclipse a few years ago where the eclipse happened so close to the horizon that it was a big giant moon that was blood red, slowly disappearing into the darkness. much more vibrant and spooky than tonight's. This one seemed more that I needed to be on the moors searching for the Hound of the Baskervilles.
My attention span seemed to give out trying to wait for the new sliver to appear, so I moved on, grabbing the mail and starting to pack for whatever will happen in Galveston tomorrow evening. I'm still nervous about that, and I may speak more on that tomorrow, if I have time. It's also time for me to get breakfast for the team tomorrow. I'm threatening buying a few boxes of cereal and some milk and letting them have at it.
For now, just some music and bedtime. We'll see if I can clear out some of the dust and enjoy the weather.
