As the sun sets.
… is two-fold.
One, she must prepare herself optimally for this year’s “highly-anticipated” Perseid meteor shower.
The Perseids are known to treat viewers to a fantastic display, and coupled with a particularly dark sky, this year’s show is shaping up to be one you won’t want to miss.
To that end, she has placed herself on Tilghman Island in the Chesapeake Bay this weekend, for the peak of the peak of the peak of the best meteor shower of them all.
Yes, she could have placed herself in the Utah hinterlands, or, even better, the Atacama Desert, but she will make do with the lower tip of Tilghman.
Two, she must prepare herself psychologically for the possibility that despite the hooha the shower will be a disappointment.