Thanks, I am doing ok. Mostly. I think. Or at least "ok about being not-ok ".
Anyway, yeah, I was nowhere near ready either...he was a fairly sprightly 75, and not at all ill really. He developed diabetes a few years back but was managing that fine and seemed full of beans, and then he had a massive heart attack out of pretty much nowhere. Huge shock to everyone, including his doctor. 0_o One of life's twisted ironies is that my mum had fairly major heart surgery during the summer, but had pretty much made a full recovery by September. Funny, huh? She seems to be bearing up though, or at least she's a stoical enough person to fake it.
I have support and stuff though, so I'm not dealing with it all alone. Except in the existential sense. Or epistemological. Ontological? Excuse my half-baked ill-remembered philosophy, it's times like these that made me wish I'd studied it seriously back in college.
Anyway, enough babble, I should sleep. Need to remember to do that more lately.
Also, at the risk of sounding like I'm in an AA meeting, gotta say I owe you thanks for starting up this whole monthly music mix thingy - it keeps me on my toes, musically speaking, and contributes to my overall sanity, I suspect. Times like these, stuff like that helps. We started these in 06 or 07, wasn't it? Yikes. Where does the time go?
That kind of sudden thing is just terrifying. It would be nice if the world were stabler than that. Does your mom live in Dublin, or is it a trip to see each other?
I just paged back through my mixes-- all the way back to June of 2006! A long time indeed. I agree that it's sanity-promoting to have a little pressure to pay attention to music. It's also interesting to look back and see the ways my listening has and hasn't drifted. So many bands I've already mostly forgotten about! I guess off-loading some memory onto the mixes was always part of the point... it's definitely working in my case :)
Anyway, yeah, I was nowhere near ready either...he was a fairly sprightly 75, and not at all ill really. He developed diabetes a few years back but was managing that fine and seemed full of beans, and then he had a massive heart attack out of pretty much nowhere. Huge shock to everyone, including his doctor. 0_o
One of life's twisted ironies is that my mum had fairly major heart surgery during the summer, but had pretty much made a full recovery by September. Funny, huh?
She seems to be bearing up though, or at least she's a stoical enough person to fake it.
I have support and stuff though, so I'm not dealing with it all alone. Except in the existential sense. Or epistemological. Ontological? Excuse my half-baked ill-remembered philosophy, it's times like these that made me wish I'd studied it seriously back in college.
Anyway, enough babble, I should sleep. Need to remember to do that more lately.
Also, at the risk of sounding like I'm in an AA meeting, gotta say I owe you thanks for starting up this whole monthly music mix thingy - it keeps me on my toes, musically speaking, and contributes to my overall sanity, I suspect. Times like these, stuff like that helps.
We started these in 06 or 07, wasn't it? Yikes. Where does the time go?
Anyway, more babble anon, I'm sure, bye for now.
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I just paged back through my mixes-- all the way back to June of 2006! A long time indeed. I agree that it's sanity-promoting to have a little pressure to pay attention to music. It's also interesting to look back and see the ways my listening has and hasn't drifted. So many bands I've already mostly forgotten about! I guess off-loading some memory onto the mixes was always part of the point... it's definitely working in my case :)
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