sometimes the world is scary

[ximen]

I was up late last night, and couldn't fall asleep until after 3 AM. I thought that by setting my alarm for 10, I'd be ensuring myself a good night's sleep. I did not count on being woken up two hours later by a phone call from my boss, informing me that my coffee shop had been broken into last night, and did I remember seeing anything suspicious.

Objectively, I know that businesses get broken into all the time, and there's a big difference between someone being willing to break into a business after closing and someone mugging or assaulting an employee of said business, so this shouldn't make me scared and on edge, but of course it does anyway. There's a lot of bars in the neighborhood, so I already feel a little unsafe walking home after closing, because drunk people are unpredictable.

Toss in the nine unsolved arson cases this year (three of which have happened the last three weeks or so), and the Greenwood neighborhood is starting to feel a lot less safe. I'm hoping that the sunrise and a few hours will help me recover my sense of perspective. I mean, I spent four years taking walks all over the south side of Chicago, and I'm scared of being in Greenwood? Seriously?

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[youkosiren.livejournal.com]

Oh no, that's disturbing :( It probably won't happen again, but be careful!