Tonight's the night

Photo: (c) Andrea Kusajda, Pixelio

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Tonight's the night because in the following night there will be full moon again! Beside thunderstorms and funerals, the full moon often plays a central part within my stories, especially in my book "When it becomes night in the Pot" (German: "Wenn es Nacht wird im Pott"). The book contains ten stories which are mainly setted in the evening or at night.

Me and my friend Renate like the full moon very much and my Dsungarian hamster James Hetfield (yes, I named the little one by the Metallica frontman - my James became nearly 29 months, this is equal to the human age of 114 years!) was moonstruck. In every full moon night, he lied in his cage and looked out of the window when the moon shone in - he was really fascinated by the light. He lied there like an Egyptian sphinx and became quite angry when some clouds covered the moon! My Campbell hamster Slayer who lives with me since 11 months and celebrated his first birthday on 3 April 2010 (this is equal to 48 human years) likes the moon, too, but not as much as James did. Last month he sat in his cage like a wolf and made some tones. Moreover, he was quite angry when I entered the kitchen in the early morning for breakfast and turned on the light because then he could not see the moon so well any longer.

When James died because of infirmity and an appoplexia, I buried him in our garden beyond a pear tree - he died in a full moon night. While I tried to trench his grave, an owl sat in the tree and watched me - I think it knew whom I was going to bury. The owl often sat outside the kitchen window and seemed to make some conversation with James. He liked the great bird though he might have been prey for it.

Nevertheless I know some people who dislike the full moon or are even afraid of it: Marina, Tim and a former classmate of me, Marianna who came from Yugoslavia. She always felt fear when she saw the full moon in the sky but she had no rational reason for it. Tim always called the full moon "asshole" when it arose above the school on the other side of the street because he couldn't sleep well in full moon nights. It's almost the same with Marina. Moreover, there are even people who say that the full moon has no influence on their sleep but other phases of the moon. A former teacher of me in basic school could not sleep when it was new moon. I normally sleep very well when it's full moon, too, but it could happen that my dreams are fucking wild and crazy ;o).

In more or less half an hour Marina and me will open the ice-cream season and buy some ice-cream in the supermarket next to the bank - or maybe we will visit a café to eat some ice. At the moment the sun is still shining ;o).