Sunday, October 2, 2011

Friday, October 16, 2009

About Me


I am honest, or I try to be.
I am real, or I try to be.
I've done a lot of stupid things, whimsically, accidentally, on purpose, and/or some combination of the three.
I struggle to accept my mediocrity.
I struggle looking in mirrors.
I am very amusing to myself, and occasionally to other people.
I enjoy my self quite often.
I fall in love very easily and I am very slow at making the long climb out.
I hate fruit.
I love peppermint ice cream.
I regret giving up my maiden name.
I do not regret getting married.
If I were still single, I would want to buy a truck and live out of it, owning very little and only sleeping indoors when it rained. (snow doesn't bother me)
I hate hot weather, amusement parks, relief society, Sunday school, attending church in general, loud noises and loud people, secrets, receiving presents, money, hicks, s'mores, drunk people, wedding receptions, credit cards, painting, historical museums, new car smell, Mormon culture, the women who speak in General Conference, people who prefer cats to dogs, manga, anime, people obsessed with manga or anime, meeting new people, making new friends, action movies, mysteries, running, showering, library fines, collections, old people, pregnant people, tall people, engaged people, most women, wire coat hangers, acrylic nails, people who neither understand nor appreciate sarcasm, and wearing shoes.
I wish I were a morning person.
I wish I could play a musical instrument.
If I were a plant I'd be a juniper tree.
If I were a plant I'd want to be a night-blooming cereus.

A constellation is a pattern of stars recognized by astronomers and traditionally named after its apparent form. There are 88 of them, appearing in 88 regions of the sky that have been mapped out to fit them.

An asterism is a recognizable pattern of stars that is not one of the 88 constellations. Asterisms can be anything you want. Some of them are well-known, such as the Big Dipper, which is part of the constellation Ursa Major, and some of them can be made up on the spot and only known to you. They are useful for helping you to orient yourself when star-gazing. What you see truly depends on where you're at, when you look, and who you are.

If constellations are solid, asterisms are fluid. Of course, both are gaseous.

The picture is of an ice age era cave drawing of the Pleides, also known as the Seven Sisters.