Working on the night moves.
The overnight shift, how did I get stuck in this bogus detail. The most absurd thing is I volunteered for it. I've been doing this shift on the weekend for 7 years now, at the truck stop diner where I work. Starting out part time at first. Of course, this wasn't my first rodeo doing the overnight at this diner, because I when I worked there the first time from 2010-2014 I worked the overnight shift as well. It takes a part of my soul every time I work it it feels like. Things seems different when you've been up all night, the brain doesn't work right. No one understands what it's like. I think in many ways working these kinds of hours makes me feel even more lonely, more isolated. Maybe because I'm so detached from a normal schedule of sleep and waking time. Then there are the times when you get out and you can't sleep at all, and the million thoughts that I usually have buzzing around in my brain are made even worse by the bizarre cracked ou