I was close to being finished with my work out when my Fiance called to tell me there had been a death in the family. Last night we were talking on AIM and he told me Lily (the cat) hadn't come home. They found her this morning and she had been hit by a car. Danny is really upset, and I feel bad. This is one of those things that makes long ( Read more... )

It's so hard to keep going today. I don't feel anything, and I feel everything. How am I gonna get through work? Why didn't he wake up today? He won't wake up again. I won't see him at graduation, or reunion, or ever again. I can't...I can't stand this. I don't think I ever can.


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--Well, I found out yesterday morning that my grandfather died. He was 89 and decided to go on Hospice care the week before. No surprises. Most people didn't like him. He was hard to get along with. He had kind of a nutty profesor thing going on, but mostly he was just crabby. I wrote in my person journal that people loved him the way they ( Read more... )

--Coretta Scott King died today, early this morning for those of you stateside. What a sad thing to happen right before African American History Month. I'm so glad I got to hear her speak last Summer when she accepted the Horace Mann award at Antioch College. It was probably the first and last time I'll ever see Kelly Hall with standing room ( Read more... )

--The right to die was upheld by the Supreme court for Oregon. I have mixed feelings about the right to death. On one hand I think it's good for the families and individuals suffering from chronic illness and/or the effects of old age, but I'm not sure how I feel about suicide in general. I know there are people on this earth who just weren't ( Read more... )

--My Grandmother's memorial service was really good. The minister did a great job of telling stories and what not that really showed who my grandmother was. One was about my grandmother admiring a quilt by someone who was a master quilter. She said out of the blue to the person who had made the quilt, "If I thought you would make me a quilt I'd ( Read more... )

--Trip to the Netherlands was a bust. Not only was the conference beyond lame, but so was the food which was your basic bland as hell conference food. I think they were gearing tastes towards the British (uhl-urp-guh). The workshops were lame and my allergies put me in bed for half of it anyway (this is very rare, the last time they were that ( Read more... )

--Since our society has this odd outlook on death, I have to got Oklahoma to go watch my grandmother die because apparently this is supposed to make all parties involved feel better somehow. Do me a favor, if I'm dying, don't come visit me. It will just distract me for all the preparations I need to make and in all honesty, it won't make me feel ( Read more... )

--How do I hear about the pope dying? Well, I go into the Cafeteria here at my lovely liberal arts college and someone comes up to me and says, "Pope's dead." So, the pope is dead. Yeah, I don't have much more to say about it than that.

--My paternal grandmother died Monday around noon of kidney failure. Her funeral is today and I can't go. A) because my brother will be there B) I found out too late and it would have been a hassle trying to get everything together to go C) It wouldn't stop my classes. Sorry I haven't updated in so long. If you know me personally and you want ( Read more... )