The world of banking is one that requires you to be dependable/responsible and is a major step in a young person's life. That's why the banks close at four in the afternoon, when young people like me are just rolling out of bed.
Most certainly a setback. But you live and learn. Tonight... tonight I'll set my alarm. Then maybe tomorrow... tomorrow we'll finally get to work out.
Sure we could have sat in the Borders Cafe and wasted our already ruined day, but that's how we always waste our days.
So it was off to Trumbull and into the mall. The mall is a bigger, more heavily populated way for us to waste our day. We spent an hour or two there and sure we could have walked around there a few more... pretending to socialize, giving stares, getting stares... but we felt the call of science.
Off the highway there is an exit for the Discovery Museum and Planetarium and neither of us having been to a planetarium in our adult lives is something we've been meaning to fix. And so the fix was in.
Except for the fact that they close at five and don't even open on Mondays to begin with.
That of course, didn't stop us from exploring its outer premises. The museum building itself screamed SCIENCE and was probably super modern the day I was born and that's cool with me. It certainly made me wonder what out-of-date secrets it held inside. It would be just like the science museums of my youth!
The surrounding woods, the wooden bridge, the little trail... what we were feeling now was the call of nature. The wild.
So we got back in the car to drive home. The wooden bridge led to a building. The trail was fenced off. Everything was wet from an earlier rain. It was getting late, getting dark.
It was a sign on the side of the road for a nature trail. We pulled that motherfucking car over and we became one with Mother-fucking-Earth. An unexpected twist in our day. The trails were dark, overgrown, wet, scary, neverending and amazing... and we spent an hour traversing them. Once we went in, it was too dark to take photos, but you'll see the last photo below is one of it's many scary entrances.
I should mention that Jeremy did not find any snakes, but we didn't attempt to travel off path today either.
This is exactly what I've needed. Nature. Hiking through the woods. Slipping down rocky trails. The constant fear that you're going to walk through a spiderweb. I've been wanting to make days of this since last year when Adam Wekarski and I were cooped up in my house wallowing over girls. Now I'm cooped up wallowing over wallowing, which is a horrible thing to wallow over. Now we're going to make Thursday a full on hiking day. Thursday is the day folks. Thursday Jeremy will catch that snake of his and I'll of course catch the picture.
I leave you with the photo portion of today's adventures...
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