I love being ALIVE and living my life. I don't just exist anymore. It's faaaaaantastic! I worked a lot today and am pretty much exhausted from going, going, going lately so who knows why on earth I am so WIDE awake right now. Probably a tad over tired. :)
I was just looking at my pictures of Pike's Peak and realized that I would probably be the only one who would be so very excited to see all the pictures of the amazing rock forms I saw. :P I love Geology SO much. You have no idea. Well, some of you do. :) Colorado has to be one of the most amazing places to live for a rock nerd like myself. I swear I get whiplash every time I'm riding in a car...I see a rock wall and *bam* my head whips around to watch it go by. Sean knows me so well that he saw me do that and pulled over to the side of the road immediately so I could get out and look at it more closely. It was great. :) Basically every day here consists of me going "OMG OMG ROCKS, ROCKS, ROCKS!!!!" Yea...you can hear me saying that can't you. :P Except for the OMG part...I only say that to mock little pre teens who actually say that.
On our way to Pike's Peak we saw a moraine lake and I was like "Dude!! I know what that is!" that and the PP granite being so porous which lets water in and then the water freezes which creates frost wedging, which is PP granite has no market value. The glacier chapter in my Geology class was by far one of my favorites. I cannot wait to get back into a Geology classroom. I am so incredibly glad that I am out here in Colorado experiencing my love for rocks and all things geology instead of just sitting in a classroom learning about it. Whenever I see anticlines and synclines on the side of the road I just stare in awe... "That's it! Right there!! That's the squish! That's THE squish!!! Holy cow..." It's SO FREAKING AMAZING!!!! I'm living my dream. =D You should have seen me when I found muscovite all over the ground. Huge chunks in it's pure mineral form. Some of them were even better than the classroom examples in my college Geology class. It was ridiculously awesome.
I can't believe that I finally fit somewhere. I've found my passion for life. I honestly wasn't sure if I ever would. I've always been a "jack of all trades" in my educational paths. I was interested in everything and good at everything and more often than not I would find something that I thought I would want to do with my life. It never lasted though. The passion which was never really there would go away quickly and I'd be back in square one again. The first day I sat in my Geology class, it just slapped me in the face and woke my life up. Geology was what I was made to do. It's my love and adventure. I can't wait to learn all there is to know. It drives me nuts to be out somewhere and only remember half of something. I want to know EVERYTHING there is to know about Geology.
I had more to say but I'm definitely crashing and don't even really know what I'm typing right now. Definitely time for sleep. :)
