Stars and Spatter Forever

They sat unspeaking, staring up at the sky through the swing's frame. Dozens of bright stars shone from the darkness, the only witnesses to the still night and the steady back and forth of the creaking swing.

That is a clip from early this morning (not the best written, but you try to do better on 2 hours of sleep). I had a camp out in my backyard with some friends. Awesome fun. Sometime this morning, after most people had gone to bed already, I was sitting on the swing with Squish, just awed by nature. Everything was so beautiful and calm. Even the hoards of mosquitoes didn't mess it up (I have bites everywhere! Even the bottom of my foot. That one right there is annoying.) There are very few times when I am awed into submission, and last night was one of them. My mind couldn't even work right and form thoughts. A great thing was that I wasn't the only one affected by it all. I've sat outside at night alone before and just watched the sky and the trees, but seeing somebody else take so much joy in something that I do was refreshing. A mutual experience is always more special than a solo one.

Next Saturday I'm going out of town to take a Forensic Science class at a college for 10 days. I read all the information available and it looks amazingly fun. I especially can't wait for blood spatter analysis. I love the series Dexter and I've practiced blood spatter analysis in the shower before, analyzing the water drops instead. (It's a weird thing to do, i know, but I was bored and didn't feel like getting out.) Forensic science is what I've wanted to do forever (after I got over my geologist stage), even before the CSI shows came out. It combines science with detective work and helps people (unless you're the bad guys) all at the same time. So this class does mock crime scenes and stuff like that that I've always wanted to do and I'm really looking forward to it. I'm pretty nervous too though. I'm going to have to meet people there and I'm not exactly sure what's going to happen. It's the same type of nervousness I get before I start a new school or do something new, so I know everything's going to be fine. I've never failed at making friends, even though I've changed schools 11 times (that's a lie. There was that one school that I went to for two hours three times a week for a month. Made no friends at all. It was awful. But other than that, I've always made friends.) and nothing horrible has happened as a result of my doing something, so as long as those trends continue, it shouldn't be too bad.

♥ j.j.

*I wrote the first half of this yesterday before I passed out from tiredness. So by "this morning" I actually mean yesterday morning and so on.