A glooooorious night.

First I watched Eva as part of my Eva series, and "Tin Man" with Wren because he's Trekbinging. And that was all stuff I'd seen before, but fun.

Then I solved Haven. Yes, finally some progress in Rev! And when they all dropped from the trees and gathered round...so cute! So amazing! Trying not to be spoilerific, but wai!

And then, and then...

I had never seen the aurora. I've always wanted to, ever since I first heard about it. It was a distant dream, "the idea of north."

After leaving Haven with a sigh and quitting the game, I went to the bathroom to refill my water mug, and as I did several people ran through the hall--sometimes I love being on the first story--crying that the northern lights were out. And I put down my mug (hope it's still there) and ran for the door.

Oh, they were out. Eerie green (Spire green, the part of me still in Rev thought), a great subtly shifting curtain over the northern part of the horizon. I ran up and woke the sleeping and sick girlfriend, figuring she'd think it was worth it, and she did. We watched it for a while, wrapped together in telepwen's most excellent blanket. Then she, very cold, went in, and I went out to the soccor field--much better view than next to the dorm.

By then they'd expanded. The curtain was washing tendrils upwards, searching for the zenith, and even as it did, from the other direction, the light arced straight across the sky. It was like being in the largest electricity globe imanigable, made of the night sky itself, black beyond black and spangled with light, and as my eyes adjusted I began to catch glimpses of the finer dustings of stars which you can really see nowhere these days; and the great light arcing across at the pole might make you scream; and at the equator is a great flat field of dark living grass, breathing in the late autumn air quietly, and in the middle is you, tiny, but with eyes huge like saucers.

Schecheheyanu.