Surprise! Night Audit...

You ever get called into work.
On a national holiday.

Yep, that's me. Got the call this morning NOT to come into work during the day, but to come in later so I can work till midnight to run the night audit for the hotel. I don't mind. It's quiet in general between 11pm-2am. I'll be home, on my way to dreamland by 2am, but that's when the bars close, so there's more activity afterwards, that I thankfully won't have to witness :-)

Given the unexpected daytime hours all to myself, I decided to go for a hike. It ended up a 3 hour adventure, with many stops along the way to visit horses in their stalls. I took some pictures (will share soon), but the day was very foggy. If I weren't in such a "iffy" mood, it would perhaps spook me a bit to be deep in the woods on such a day.

The woods here are haunted. Seriously. There are many ghost stories written about various sites on the island, of Civil War battles, or Indian graveyards. My coworkers often go "ghost hunting" at night, and have captured some rather convincing images via camera.

But I'll not need to be convinced. I wouldn't confess to believing in ghosts, but I definitely have always felt a spirit's presence at places on this island. I wish I could say I felt such a supernatural essence at places I went to in Jerusalem, but I did not. Jerusalem had alot of concreteness to it, or perhaps too much human manipulation to the various sites. But here...it's just...different.

Today, with the heavy fog, I could swear I felt someone right behind me on the path, or just beyond the trees. I felt slightly embarrassed when I did my usual dancing and singing and various things "grownups" are not supposed to be doing. That's why I like to hike solo often. The world becomes a sad place when I feel like I'm not "allowed" to skip anymore. You know what I mean. You hesitate to do such a spontaneous burst of action because you "know better" because "people are watching" (who is watching? why do we care??). Yet, when I'm alone in the woods I can twirl or skip or hoot or throw stuff, and nobody is there to take note.

You would be surprised how much better you feel after doing such things.
I certainly felt better, and uplifted from my original "iffy" mood.
Perhaps the spirits were making fun of me. I'm OK with that :-)