KIRA

The first week was not what I had expected.

I had expected the exhaustion, which was real and total and different from any exhaustion I had experienced before, the specific kind that came from a body that had done something enormous and was now also doing something continuous, the two things overlapping without pause.

I had not expected how funny it would be.

Not funny in the way things were funny when you were rested and had perspective. Funny in the immediate helpless way of things ...