I can't tell if my cheeks are puffy per usual or still puffy from the hives. Bennie woke me up last night by pawing my chest, which he never does in the middle of the night. I wonder if otherwise I would have slept through the swelling of my mouth and chest. In any case, Bennie is my new hero! Because of him I woke up in time to take myself to the emergency room (I drove right by the site of the Manassas shooting at 3:30 am...cozy!!).

So finally I found ample opportunity to read "The Good Women of China"! (RECOMMENDED.)

What IDIOT designs those hospital gowns?

Kudos to Prince William hospital: they still had my records from a previous hives visit 18 years ago!

Up at 6:00 am because of a PBJ craving. Took advantage of the insanity to clean out my email accounts. Of course they filled up again as soon as I hit the refresh. Cybersuffocation.

Spirits of Gettysburg

J and I went hiking on the A.T. and under a large rocky overhang (almost a cave) we saw...a pile of green leaves neatly arranged in a long hump. This being the middle of October (ie dry yellow leaf season), we wondered where the green leaves came from and why they were squirreled underneath this almost-cave. I poked the pile with a stick but only got more, slightly soggier green leaves. No body. And we made it to an A.T. shelter and back in a little more than three hours without succumbing to the blair witch.

Yesterday Ben, Zane, and I went Geocaching. I left a keychain in the cache and Zane took a gross old plastic model fly. There's no accounting for taste.