lessons in natural healing

Today, I woke up dead tired. I guess my body still hasn’t figured out how to live on under 6 hours of sleep. Anyway, after struggling to stay awake in my sensors class, I decided to go outside and maybe take a nap. Instead I spent a lot of time noticing really neat rocks in the courtyard area of RLM. After a time I decided to lie down, but the sun was so bright I couldn’t sleep. I gave up after another couple of minutes, and then observed how interesting it is to view the world after saturating your eyes. I imagine that’s what colorblindness looks like.

After resting in the sun and playing with the rocks, I felt a lot better, but also hungry. Since I’m low on money, I decided taco bell was the only real option. On the UT campus we have this awesome pond filled with turtles and fish. On sunny days they can be loads of fun to watch, and today was the best. There were at least 5 tiny baby turtles, only an inch in diameter. I sat and watched one try so hard to climb up a rock to get some sun, and it did finally make it. Talk about determination! I also saw two of the softshelled turtles. That was crazy to watch. The one just kept zipping around, not caring that it ran into things all over the place. At one point it actually nudged the other, which is the only reason I knew there were two. When those things settle into the mud, you can’t see them at all!

After I watched the turtles, I was feeling so great! Nature just has a way of healing whatever ails you, if you give it a chance. Unfortunately, it didn’t wake me up quite enough, because when I got to taco bell I ordered my food wrong. I never eat meat at taco bell, and instead of getting beans in my crunchwrap supreme, I got meat. It’s not a pleasant suprise! But I ate it anyway, with the hope I’ll never forget to order my food correctly again! (I can still taste it, and I’ve eating quite a few other things today. yuck!)

Overall, today was great. I had fun with nature, finished 2/3 of my stat mech homework that isn’t due until next tuesday, finished the last lab of my wednesday group, and only have tomorrow’s group to finish up for the semester. I actually feel pretty darn stress free, how about that! I hope everyone else can have a good day too. I’m including a picture of the turtle pond I took a few weeks back. Imagine all those turtles, but now make sure the log is completely covered, and there are turtles on top of many of those turtles, large and small, and that will give you an idea of what today looked like.