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So, Christmas night, I sat down and wrote a really long recap of the day and was about to post it when the Wifi signal I was using at my aunt and uncle's house gave out. But it was fine. Relatively uneventful. Nobody killed each other or threw up, so I think we can say it was a success. Christmas is kind of less exciting now. That sucks. I kind of hate growing up. I just didn't really have enough time to get in the Christmas spirit this year, I guess. Oh well. Getting to go back to Ithaca in January is a good enough present for me :) And Santa brought some pretty good stuff, too ;-)
Anyway, got home to some really sad news. A girl I went to both middle school and high school with got hit by a car and died on the 23rd. That was really just sad. She was such an amazing person--which was proven by how packed the church was at her memorial yesterday. I just have to say though, that it feels a little unfair to have to attend the funeral of a classmate less than 2 years after graduation. I've never really had to deal with death before in any context other than it being an adult--someone who'd been sick for a long time or was old, etc. This was just kind of shocking. It still hasn't really hit me yet. Claire and I weren't close, really. We had a few classes together in high school, but we never hung out outside of class or anything. But I did academic team with her sister and regardless, if you go to school with someone for 7 years, you know them. So that was just really sad. I was glad I got home and found out in time to go to the service. It was really nice. A very morbid middle/high school reunion. I seriously think about half of our Hanes class of 112 were there. From talking to friends and people I saw at the service, I guess I'm lucky that this is my first experience with really tragic early death. It seemed like a lot of people had dealt with it before. But still, it's just a really sad thing.
Anyway, it just really makes me think hard when I'm driving in the dark to look carefully and makes me want to hug everyone I know and tell them to be so careful. So yeah. All of you-I LOVE YOU AND BE CAREFUL!!
Anyway, got home to some really sad news. A girl I went to both middle school and high school with got hit by a car and died on the 23rd. That was really just sad. She was such an amazing person--which was proven by how packed the church was at her memorial yesterday. I just have to say though, that it feels a little unfair to have to attend the funeral of a classmate less than 2 years after graduation. I've never really had to deal with death before in any context other than it being an adult--someone who'd been sick for a long time or was old, etc. This was just kind of shocking. It still hasn't really hit me yet. Claire and I weren't close, really. We had a few classes together in high school, but we never hung out outside of class or anything. But I did academic team with her sister and regardless, if you go to school with someone for 7 years, you know them. So that was just really sad. I was glad I got home and found out in time to go to the service. It was really nice. A very morbid middle/high school reunion. I seriously think about half of our Hanes class of 112 were there. From talking to friends and people I saw at the service, I guess I'm lucky that this is my first experience with really tragic early death. It seemed like a lot of people had dealt with it before. But still, it's just a really sad thing.
Anyway, it just really makes me think hard when I'm driving in the dark to look carefully and makes me want to hug everyone I know and tell them to be so careful. So yeah. All of you-I LOVE YOU AND BE CAREFUL!!