I'm up and can't sleep--there was a shooting at the Lincoln diesel college across the street at about 6PM today (while I was on my way home from the mall). I just now read that the victim has died. For some reason that makes it scarier, along with the fact that the shooter is still on the loose. It was drug related so that alleviates my fear a little bit, but it would just take for the person to miss their target. My bedroom window smack faces the parking lot where it happened.

When I was googling about this shooting I discovered that there has been several in my area (East Nashville) in the last few days. I recognized one of the victims who died on the 28th because I would see her on the bus. Also last month the community center my day program sometimes goes to had a shooting where 2 teenagers were injured. Thankfully we weren't there that day. So far fate has put me in the right places at the right times, but every time I hear about another shooting it just terrifies me.

I keep telling myself, in all of these cases it was people who knew eachother. I don't know anyone who would want to kill me and I'm not involved in any illegal activity. So I'm safe....right?