I am feeling better and calmer and less hysterical now; but my brother tells me he heard from my friend's brother (we met on the first day of kindergarten, which means the boys have been friends since they were two) that their mom died this morning.

There will be a drive to Cleveland in my near future.

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Thanks for your kind words on yesterday's post, y'all. I feel sort of churlish being so upset by something awful not happening to me, but navel-gazing doesn't get a person very far, and the reality keeps hitting me almost literally in waves. I'll choke up, and then I'll go about my business, and then fifteen minutes later I'll feel my eyes ( Read more... )

The mother of my very first school friend - we met on the first day of kindergarten - is dying of ovarian cancer. She's out of the hospital and home in hospice. This was the first I heard she's even been sick; my friend has never been the most consistent correspondent, and now one knows why that's been particularly true lately ( Read more... )

Teammate K's grandmother died last night. He's pretty shook up. We are (a) full of sympathy and (b) scrambling madly to try to find a new lead.

The record must absolutely show that when I gave ellen_fremedon the list of people who had contributed for yarn for her Sekrit Birthday Socks, I neglected to mention meri_oddities, who was therefore of course not included last night in Ellen's post of extreme squee.  This is my fault and not anyone else's, and I know Ellen will correct the squeeage as soon as she sees my ( Read more... )

New girl is about to be discharged from the hospital -- she sounds ten thousand times better.  It's like you can hear that the color is back in her face, and she's in control of her voice and so on -- she still doesn't remember falling or the rest of Friday night or most of yesterday, but otherwise the short-term memory is back, she says; you tell ( Read more... )

Curling was fun tonight, until late in the 7th end the new girl slipped and fell and hit her head and didn't open her eyes.  The game was over after that, and the short version is, we called 911, and she did open her eyes but had no idea what had happened, and abka and I followed the ambulance to the hospital, and denis77 googled the name of the girl's friend ( Read more... )

Et tu, Maryland?

(The Maryland Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court's decision finding that the state law limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples is unconstitutional.  There is still hope that the legislature will repeal it, I suppose, but for now the law stands.)

1. I ordered the Kairos. I'm also going to buy the Danskos this afternoon. Now I really can't buy two pair of Danskos, is what. Fortunately, if I'm not mistaken my credit card statement closes today, so poss. both purchases will show up next month. Wouldn't that be exciting! If they do show up this month, though, I can still take it. Yes ( Read more... )

Last week, a lady from my choir who'd been very sick for a relatively short time passed away; she was well-loved by many people in the group.  And of course today the eljay has been full of people missing the late thamiris.

Same situation, really.  I never knew either of them, but I'm very sorry for everybody I know who has just lost a friend.