The Moon

Tonight there was a waning crescent moon in the sky. The light side moon is reduced to a silver but you still see the shape of the dark side, so its a black moon with a slash of light.

Its not my favorite moon, I prefer a full moon, just because of the danger of it (potential werewolf attacks), yet the waning moon is what I find the most beautiful.

Just before my junior year of college I took a astronomy class in the summer. I thought it would be a fantastic dating tool, in that it is always so great when a person can point out a specific constellation. Sure I can find the big dipper, if the sky is right, but other than that star- I'm lost. I got a D in that class...and it was thus never used as a tool of seduction.

There's this great scene in the movie A Beautiful Mind where the prodigy John Nash played by Russell Crow points out the stars and planets to his date (and later his wife) Alicia, played by the ridiculously beautiful Jennifer Connely. He seems so intelligent and charming....yet he turns out to be schizophrenic crazier than bat shit- so if that's the consequence to knowing our solar system, I would rather stay relatively ignorant.

Still- I wish I had something like that in my pocket. Knowledge about something sort of painful to learn, yet really cool to know about- like plants- knowing the names of vegetation-its a great thing to know- but really who wants to memorize that book.

So really, I have no rap.

I have decided to stick to conversation about the things I actually know about...which may take me a while to completely nail down...