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I sorta hate to say this, but it creeped me out.
a few eclipses ago, a bunch of friends in the building set up that periscope-type situation and watched the action on concrete. it was FUN.
today, alone in my apartment, it just felt weird. first of all, I'd forgotten about it and when it darkened, my first thought was something like "oh fuck it's gonna rain again" (actually, it was EXACTLY "oh fuck it's gonna rain again") and then I remembered it was an eclipse and I was experiencing it ALONE. I p…
It sounds like you were channeling your medieval ancestors. Or earlier. Perhaps it was just time to sit on the floor (in the absence of a campfire) and hug your dogs. Cheer up, maybe take them on a Spring flower hunt walk tomorrow!
if the dogs weren't geriatric, I guarantee there would have puh-lenty of activity, with a little fighting over who gets the bathtub to hide in.
that a bathtub wouldn't especially protect you from the angry god who put the sun out (at least temporarily) isn't on their radar.
did I also actually hear some wealthy, whore-fucking, crack-smoking billionaire TV evangelists insisting that the eclipse is just another sign that the Rapture is nearly upon us? I don't think I was dreaming...