Tonight is a night for blogging. The stars have aligned. I can feel it in my bones.
Actually, I have been looking at the stars tonight. Even in Antigonish, it can be hard to see many stars when you're trying to look up past five very bright streetlights to the sky. And the funny thing about Antigonish is how well illuminated the streets are. Even on my street, Orchard Terrace, where I think there are a grand total of EIGHT houses, we have like three street lamps. This town is over-lit. Anyways. I was sad, sitting outside the theatre, that I couldn't really see anything in the way of stars, and it was the same all the way home, which I thought was funny, since I often noticed the stars outside my house. And sure enough, just as I got home, I could see all of them, so brightly, as if there weren't any light pollution at all. I guess that my house sits in a bit of a corner with trees around in the perfect spots that blot out the street lights, so that we have a little cloak of darkness that make the stars very easy to see.
Wow, I did not mean to go on so much about the stars, only to say that they're so beautiful out. And the moon is lovely, bright, and LARGE tonight.
Also while I was walking home and looking up at the stars, a plane was flying overhead. For a second I thought it was two stars, til I saw the red lights blinking. But they were the same size, and I thought that if the plane looked the same size as the stars so close to us, that hte stars all of a sudden seem GINORMOUS to seem the same size from so far away. Which of course they are. And I was thinking that with that "comparing your thumb close up to yoru face to teh building far away = same size to you" logic, the size of hte universe makes perfect sense. But then I thought that it didn't, if you thought of the sky as black polymer craft clay, with golf balls stuck in it. And I was much happier thinking of the Earth encased in a shell of polymer clay, and that if I threw something hard enough, it would get stuck in the sky. That is a much more comforting thought than the universe.
I am applying for jobs for the school year right now, and I am moving into a new house next week.
And Nick has submitted a little thing for teh Hockey Night in Canada Anthem contest. You should check it out.
