Sharpie

is that yellow sharpie on my finger? i thought it was. i was using a yellow sharpie yesterday at work, and i thought i had been careless when putting the cap back on. turns out it's not a sharpie mark but, an acid burn! and since i didn't realize right away that there was acid eating away at my finger, it blistered up in one area and ate a hole in another. as brad was kindly pouring the deionized water on it, he told me not to worry, that it would dry up and flake off in a day or two...um, what, my finger? this coming from a man who, while holding two viles of water, saw a mosquito on his arm and in a high panicky voice said, "getitoffme! GETITOFFME!"

the nebraska countryside: pretty prickly.