Remember the eclipse? That was wild

Hey, remember the eclipse last week? That was pretty wild. I was just sitting here at my desk thinking about eternity, space, and what happens when we die (you know, that standard, Wednesday afternoon, post-lunch existential spiral) and I was like, “Whoa, speaking of space, the moon went on front of the sun last week. That was crazy!”

I don’t know what you did for the eclipse, but I stood at the window of my office building while I waited for a coworker to hand me the one pair of special Stare-At-The-Sun-Space-Glasses we were all sharing so I could stare at the sun without going blind. I’m very impatient, though, so I looked at the sun without the glasses for a second anyway before I was like, “Ow, my eyes!”

My coworkers were all like, “Charlotte, don’t stare directly at the sun, you moron!” and I was like “Ha! Ha! Ha! Oops, you’re right, I just did the thing everyone said not to do.” I don’t know if you know this about me (stop me if you do), but I’m *kind of* a rule-breaker. A space badass. So I was like “Fuck the sun and its retina-smashing rays, man, I can take it.”

But it turns out I can’t take it, so I was like, “Hey, can I borrow those Stare-At-The-Sun-Space-Glasses?” Someone handed them to me and, wow, holy shit, those things are sick. You could actually see the moon going across the sun! THAT WAS SO NUTS! I’ve since put the Stare-At-The-Sun-Space-Glasses on to look at the sun when the moon isn’t in front of it, and let me tell you: it never gets old. I know I said “Fuck the sun” a few sentences ago, but I actually think that the sun might totally rule.

Anyway, after we looked at the moon and the sun through the window, my coworkers and I went outside, because we were like hey, these cool space things don’t happen that often, and we should probably Be Outside to Fully Experience it. I also wanted to see what it’s like when the world gets 75 percent darker in New York City in case the apocalypse happens soon and that becomes our new reality. I just want to be ready, you know? Seventy-five Percent Darker in New York City is, coincidentally, the name of my forth-coming album of songs that sound like Death Cab for Cutie wrote them in 2006.

Some people took photos of the eclipse. I bet there are at least 349 online, but here are two of them:

And check out this wacky guy who decided to walk across a fucking canyon during the eclipse like a moon-worshipping weirdo!!!!

Wow, I still can’t get over that the eclipse happened. I hope I never forget.