A walk in the village on a Monday afternoon…after the rain.

The owl that I am requires me to work at nights and sleep in the daytime. I get weekends off so it is twice as hard to go to work on Monday evenings since your circadian rhythm resets itself on the weekends. It was a rainy Monday afternoon, and all I could think about was how I can go back to sleep, I have been up since 8 in the morning and my shift starts at 10 in the evening. So I grab an Isaac Asimov collection of short stories, put on my MUVO then made an attempt to fall asleep, which I succeeded in doing…for an hour.

Things were still blurry when I awoke, by instinct I grabbed my mobile phone to check on messages. I received a text message from a friend that when I was about to press the send button to reply I heard that distinct beep that lets you know that you are out of luck and out of credits. Good thing the rain had stop so I could go to the nearest store and get my autoload. It was around 4 in the afternoon and the ground was still wet, but the sun was still shining. Small insects were up and about and there were like pollen thingys in the air, like what you would see on a field on sunflowers. Our village had lots of vacant lots and plants, thus giving the effect of a fairy tale picture. I suddenly remembered a scene from an old Tom Cruise movie Legend, were he was running through the forest -- but I was no Tom Cruise. I was in a dream like state and it made me feel warm and happy, like when I was 5 years old on a Christmas morning.

So finally I got my autoload, replied to my friend’s message and made my way home. The sun went down and I knew that the dream state I was in is over, daytime was over and BAM!!! Back to reality, back to work…Monday evenings, yey!

 

Comments

[Colleen]

wow. sensory writing.. just. the type that i like to read... :)