Any January 4th in my life won't have to try too hard to avoid being my worst.  It could be a garden-variety crappy day and it wouldn't have to worry.  In 1998, this was the day we found out my mom had a malignant brain tumor.  In 2008, this was the day my former best friends drove the last nail into the coffin of our friendship.  And I started to ( Read more... )

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Well, this is actually a sad entry. The thing is, I was planning to make my next entry about Heath Ledger. But a few minutes ago, Kathryn called me and told me... he was found dead today.

I'm genuinely sad about this, even though it makes me feel a little shallow, since I clearly didn't know him personally. He was so talented (and yes... hot.) He ( Read more... )

"He took his life."  Are there sadder words in the English language?

(A family friend- a friend of my sister's- died last week.  We didn't know how he died, but it was obviously already very sad.  We thought it might have been diabetes-related, since his obit said donations could be made to a juvenile diabetes foundation.  He was a wonderful man: ( Read more... )

There was a guy, Steven, who went here last year.  He was also here at the beginning of this school year, although I think he may have dropped out.  He was two years behind me in school.  He was from Michael's hometown, Winamac, and Michael and I joked about him a lot because he was a ridiculous character.  Michael's friends and I referred to him  ( Read more... )

My dog Lucy was killed today. Apparently a worker left our back gate open, and she ran out and was hit by a car. I don't know many details, but I guess she was hit on her side and probably died instantly.

I'm going home tonight to bury her. This is so sad. My family has had roughly 20 pets die over the years (most of them Kelly's), but this is one ( Read more... )

Well, I don't know what to say about this, really, but I thought I'd share...

TV Evangelist Jerry Falwell Dies at 73

"I shudder to think where the country would be right now if the religious right had not evolved," he said when he stepped down as Moral Majority president in 1987.

Kelly hypothesized that if he's in heaven, he might be surprised to ( Read more... )

Last Friday an infamous Indianapolis man was found dead in his home:
Tony Kiritsis, 72, found dead of natural causes
An informative account of the incident that made him so infamousThe article said they weren't sure what he'd been doing since he'd been released from the mental hospital, but I know. He'd been going to garage sales, looking for ( Read more... )