Weird Stuff

Saturday June 11, 2005

So I'm a couple days early but I want to get this off my chest because Rachel and everyone says I;m talking about it way too often but it's still on my mind. Will gets out of the hospital on Monday. Tomorrow I'm going to make him a few meals so he doesn't have to cook and also get some basics like soap and paper towels so he doesn't have to go out too much because last I saw him on Wednesday he was still in lots of pain. He didn't say anything about it but probably I shouldn't talk about it to him even though he might end up seeing this because I gave him the link awhile ago but I don't think he reads it anyway. Technically I knew other people in it but we're not really close.

Basically I just keep thinking about the stuff on Memorial day. Obviously it's good no one died and I'm super glad about that but I also find it kinda weird. Like I didn't see it happen but everyone was driving by it later and they had to shut down the whole side of the highway so the traffic was fucked up for a few days and even if you go over there now all the plants and dirt are messed up. I might have gone back there a few times until Chris A. told me to stop but we got coffee and talked about it and she also thought it was weird. Pretty much every car was totaled and there was so much smoke for a while. A bunch of the trees by the road are totally scorched and apparently it's really lucky emergency services got there fast because there could've been a forest fire.

I just feel like it's so lucky what ended up happening. Obviously everyone is super worried about the people in the hospital but I don't know anyone who died. Rachel and Becks say it's bad luck and morbid to talk about but I think that's weird. I went to one church service with Becks just because and they're calling it a miracle but apparently if I say it's strange then I'm an asshole. I'm not saying it's bad it's just statistically unlikely probably. It's cool how everyone is helping out like starting a fund to pay for the hospital services and I guess Paul's buddy works in insurance and said it's been a crazy few days at the office. When it first happened a bunch of people worked together and fed the emergency service workers because of course they'd been bbqing or whatever. That's all cool.

Honestly I've been losing a lot of sleep over it. I feel like it's out of Final Destination and the other shoe is going to drop soon but it's almost been two weeks and nothing. I took a couple days off work which is fine because I guess business has been slow and people have been staying home. Things are just kinda eerie lately around town. I got groceries yesterday and like no one was there. It was like a ghost town except for a certain someone at the register who was totally not high. Stuff like that makes it feel normal but I don't feel normal anymore.