Just thought I'd put a warning on that in case some don't want to read about it. I could not sleep last night, it was well past 2am and I felt so scattered, but no real reason why. I finally got to sleep. Then this morning I got up and was reading the paper online and there was a story about a body being found over at the local high school. The high school is about 3 blocks from my house. Not much information was given about it other than there was a disturbance around 1:15am, police were called and they found a dead body. So I go about my day, went shopping and met up with my best friend of 16 years. Her dh is a paramedic so I asked her if she knew much more about it. Turns out that there was a party near the high school and two guys were fighting at it. The fight moved to the high school where one guy pulled out a knife. The second guy then pulled out a gun and shot him. Holy cow talk about not bringing a knife to a gun fight! Now of course today felt strange knowing all of this happened just 3 blocks from me while I was awake. But the entire day today while I was out shopping I saw the flight for life helicopter going back and forth. It was going between the new hospital and various places, back and forth. I counted 8 times it went out from the hospital and it was in a big time hurry. My friend talked to her dh while we were out and he said it was super busy (he is a paramedic and on the swat team). Apparently a lot of bad calls, whatever exactly that means other than a lot of flight for life calls. The only way I can describe today was that it felt like death all around me. The whole day reminded me of after a funeral is over and you keep yourself busy doing 'normal' stuff so you don't have to dwell on what happened, kwim? Just that 'keep moving, it will all be ok eventually' feeling. I have found myself wandering around the house mindlessly cleaning and getting stuff done, same thing with shopping today. Just in and out of stores mindlessly. (although I have discovered or rather renewed my love for Pier 1 imports. ) Such a strange strange day, I almost don't even know what to think of it.