It is nearly 3am as I sit outside my house on the front lawn, hidden in the shadows yet illuminated by my laptop's screen. The air is cool and clean and somewhat fresh except for a hint of skunk that wafts through every now and then and the putrid stench of the corpse of some nearby rotting carcase of a creature that I can not identify. Off in the ( Read more... )

It is now getting closer to my surgical consult. I find myself more aware of what is going on around me, and at the same time I find myself more acutely aware of the things that are not. I try to find things to distract me, but nothing seems to work. I just want to find some level of comfort and escape from reality. Not even my usual safe spots ( Read more... )