burgler in temporary residence

[elegentry]

today I had rather a shock. I came home about 8:30pm to find an actual intruder in my house! Not fun. I got scared, panicked, shaky but mostly angry, yelled at him a lot and ushered him out of the house. He was quiet but a bit arrogant and left without fuss or violence. The only violence was my screaming. He seems to have stolen my camera but nothing else that I can identify so far . Also made a mess of some things, most ickily my underwear drawer-Eew, nasty.  The police have been, and the fingerprint police (without getting any fingerprints). More usefully erudito and the wizard came over to help me calm down and detoxify the atmosphere.  I will go to bed soon, helps that I won't be able to keep my eyes open for much longer. Don't think I will go to work tomorrow, there is a bit of tidying up and defending the territory to be done. Maybe I can log on and meet the deadlines anyway. Whatever. Just as long as the horrid man does not come back. Apparently there have been lots of robberies in the street this week.

Comments

Physical shock...

[mishymoocow-2.livejournal.com]

Sympathetic commiseration from Moocow. I am finding that the chemical aftereffects of shock can have a long tail. Basically it changes you body chemistry for several days while your body purges the adrenalin & other exciting hormones & neurotransmitters. So be gentle with yourself, and make others do so too.

I think we need to dub erudito St Erudito the Leaned-Upon. A girl couldn't have a better friend when she's in trouble.

Re: Physical shock...

[montjoye.livejournal.com]

Thankyou. and commiserations for your recent injury too. Bad luck. May it heal well. Be good and look after it. I broke the same bone in both feet but 12yrs apart. The one I took more care with gives me no trouble at all. The other has become a "weather bone".