Nuthin better than a cat on your lap

Skittles is sitting on my lap...and it is so wonderful!! She's making it difficult to type, but it feels wonderful. I am definately an animal person, I always pictured myself a dog person, and I still think I am but I'm quite content here with her.

I've been watching the discovery channel. First they were doing stuff on the tsunami of 2004 trying to find it's origins, and when they found the evidence what it could mean for the Northwestern United States. And now I'm watching stuff about volcanoes and Mt. St. Helens...so much life can be gone in the blink of an eye. Do we even have any idea how lucky we are to be alive? that this earth could have formed life in the first place and to have kept it this long. Ofcoarse, geologically speaking we humans have been living a small speck of time. Even if you just comapare our existance to that of the other animals that had been alive prior to our existance it's fleeting. But they perished quickly most times. And life anyway is so short and so unknown and so fleeting. Say what you know and learn what you can. Plan for tomorrow, but live for today. And every day try to impact someone. Those are some of my goals...and they have been for a while, but tonights programs ?affirmented? them. And I'm also fascinated...I guess that's why I'm a geology major. I think I really would like to do field work of some sort. As hard as it would be and as tedious at times, I would still feel like I was part of something important. *shrugs* that's really all I have to say. Nothing much for such a long entry I know, but deal with it :P

oh and for the first time in my life I want you to hope for no snow. (between Christmas and New Year's, I would like to take a drive up to Rochester if my parents let me and the weather is good. Keep your fingers croseed for me!!)