Will I Now Be Able to Sleep?

I was just settling in my cosy bed at about midnight when my cell phone rang. Rachel wasn't feeling very well (I think it was that Ball Park hot dog she ate at the Rangers' game tonight) and asked me to bring her some medicine. So I ran over to her apartment to see what she needed. On my way back to my door, I noticed there was a rattle snake in my way, laying right on the sidewalk between the two doors, where I had just walked. Not a big one, only about 18 inches long, but it made a nice rattle sound telling me to get lost.

So I walked around it, got Rachel taken care of, then took after it with a broom. It curled up behind my fossil and birdnest display, so I took some photos. Then I shooed it away, but I didn't really see where it went.