Just spent two hours laying flat on the roof, listening to a Doctor Who audio and watching the stars come out.

...Sometimes it's good to be an earth-dwelling monkey.

And you know, while I was sitting up there watching the sky and listening to the Master try to destroy the universe, I realized that I don't think I'd *ever* watched the stars come out before. Part of that's down on my having grown up under the Great Eastern Forest, so there hasn't generally been a lot of sky to see, but, when it comes down to it --

I've stargazed a few times, but we always made sure it was right dark by the time we've gone out; I've noticed the stars coming out, but we were always doing other things at the same time; most of my memories of the night sky have been through car windows. I've never simply laid out from sunset until full dark and done nothing but see the sky change.

And that's not right.

How many of you have watched the stars come out? ... I don't know that I know anybody in RL who'd have been willing to lie out there with me in the quiet for two hours. And that's almost as sad.