disassociation

[thejunipertree]

It's a very uncomfortable day. Wobbly. I feel disjointed. At odds with myself. My head's on wrong. My hands are not mine; the skin is too tight.

I'm feeling everything I normally feel, but it's magnified a-thousand-fold. I'm too sensitive today, to everything around me. Images keep getting stuck in my head, an infinite loop. I read something earlier this morning regarding a cobra necropsy. It mentioned signs seen only in snakes that have been severely beaten. Who would beat a snake? The idea depresses me. What kind of person would maliciously harm any animal? I keep seeing it in my head.

I don't like this feeling, even though I am quite used to it.

If I were home, I would hide in bed with the cats and my cigarettes and some cold tea.

I wish it were autumn. I'd like to go apple picking this season. And see all the pumpkins. Maybe I can convince the Engineer that this is a good plan.

Comments

[edwards.livejournal.com]

People hurting any animal is baffling, but cats being my "button" as it were, I've been increasingly angry/unsettled by the number of reports of people... well, murdering them for dogfighting.

Quite aside from thinking ANY dog owner that wishes to own/use a dog for dogfights should automatically be prevented from owning any animal/breeding/being allowed to voice their opinions/breathing, I can't decide if the increased reports are due to increased detection, or increased activity.

I really hope it is the former.

Why WOULD anyone beat a pet snake? I can, for example, imagine someone in the wild, bitten and fighting off an animal, would probably hurt it severely, but I'm assuming from the context this is someone's pet...

[meetzemonsta.livejournal.com]

I think it's the former, to be quite honest.

As for the pet snake vs. wild snake, I replied to yagathai below with a bit more context of what I had read.