In the Sky of the Desert, Unblinking

          I am writing this post because recently, there's been a strange number of airplanes flying over my neighborhood and, honestly, my city, in general. This has me wondering why. I've seen a decent amount of helicopters, too.           Now this wouldn't be super weird if I lived super near an airport of if it had always been this way. But that's not the case. The airport is all the way across town from where I live, and the surge is things flying over us has only been over the past two or three months. Weird. One time, I was walking around with my brother on his college campus, and all of a sudden, coming from behind us, there was a noise so loud I jumped out of my own skin. Now it was definitely an airplane, I could tell by looking up, but it was so close to us that it sounded like a friggin bomb. Anyways, that's just one of the weird encounters.           All this weird airplane business got me thinking...