Sleepyhead.

Look up, and you're bound to see it.
That mysterious ring around the moon.
It's ice. Surrounding our nightlight with shimmering
crystals of water and light.
And other than a copper moon, or a cross country sunrise-
it's the most beautiful natural thing I've witnessed with my own eyes.

I end this day in this same room. I'm contemplating finishing homework. Or jumping on the trampoline. I'm reading things. Remembering things. Scratch my flyaway black hair and blink under the yellow-hued light in my room. I stare down at my hands. The vein system that runs from my wrists to my palms, and on top of these two things are popping out from under the skin. For some reason they seem to be a crazy dark blue. They're so bright and bulging. I can't help but spend minutes looking at every little track. Follow each with my fingers.
It's the little things in life that make me wonder.

I also experienced something new today. Acetylene poisoning is horrible. My rig backfired on me today while I was preparing to cut some metal, and I inhaled pretty deep. I've never felt such a tight, nasty feeling in my abdomen as I shivered and licked my dry lips, hoping to free myself of nausea. I had never tasted straight acetylene in my life. But today I did. And it's quite nasty.
I wasn't poisoned though. I was close.
But I have come to learn, today, that breathing in fumes like that can mess you up.
And it's no fun.

I'm still getting haunted.
The dark corners of my room have not left me alone quite yet.

And now, I shall be going to sleep.
I have a day to think about.
Practice to plan.
Things to dream of.
Letters to write.
And things to do. In general.

If only all of them could work. All at the same time.