so i went swimming yesterday with raeann, brie, anna, adam, and c-dawg --and had a great time, but i definately got a bit too much sun. even my scalp is a bit more colorful than it should be. oh, well. that's one small step of pain; one giant leap towards a tan... [i'm a tool] it was still fun, nonethe less. stephanie met up with us after work and we went to brie's for dinner to decide the next activity of the night, which turned out to be a movie in the tahoe: monster-in-law. which was pretty good considering it was jlow and her sweet sweet ass. after coming how to a relatively short evening, ok so it was 11:30, i decided the night sky was too beautiful to let me just go to bed. i lied on my roof as i often do and decided that in the past year indy has gotten a lot brighter and is drownding out the starts. so i say, screw indy! i want to knock out the power grid for one night! :-P it's weird because on my roof time just stops and goes backwards. all of these memories of my childhood come to me and then i start getting philosophical. i can understand the ancient greeks and romans and how they must have felt when they gazed heavenly. nothing between me and god's artwork of the night. i leaves me in awe to just look at the stars hanging there as they have for thousands of years-unchanging. this is the same thing that everyone who has walked the earth sees at night. that's just cool. i thought of how fast my life has gone, yes almost 20 years..., and i wonder where my life will lead me. i thought of a poem that i'm sure we all got back in the day in an email foward about "time is short/the music won't last" i love that poem, despite it being an annoying email foward. let me google it for you:
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Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask "How are you?"
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say "Hi"?
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.
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