List of Most Important Things I've witnessed in life cont. :

7) (thanks to tonight)

I walk to my car.
On a tree one foot away from my car,
a giant fur creature is clutching the tree trunk.
I gasp.
It turns its head and looks at me straight in the eyes.
I gasp again.
The raccoon struggles to climb
by dragging itself up the palm tree.
It sits up there awkwardly.
I call my mom over and point to the monstrous sized rodent.
" is that a monkey? she asks.

at this rate, by next week,
I'll probably have seen
a Meadow Jumping Mouse, an Iberian Lynx, and hopefully a Pygmy Tarsier.
One day, I'm going to stumble upon and discover a new organism.
just you watch.

and my fossil/artifact collection grew last night!
Along with the arthropod(trilobite?) and leaf fossil,
a porcelain dish, an rusty oil lighter, 2 iron locks, a lice comb
[all found at an abandoned village bordering Mongolia,
that my great great grandfather apparently founded]
2 dinosaur teeth, and a giant mammoth tusk
(sadly, left in my grandma's closet because it was too big and illegal to bring back)
now I have a beautiful rock embedded with different aquatic shells!
And four old calligraphic manuscripts that all smell ancient ,but in the good way.

(taken 3 years ago)

I just got really excited about this all.
I'm going to create my own museum in my room.
make a brochure and do some carbon dating.
whee!
(I'd take pictures of the rest, but I misplaced the camera charger)