burials and dvds
Today is my 100th day in a row without Sevi. I haven't heard from her for 9 days, when she was at Burgas. I have gotten pretty nervous, because last week, she was going to be at work, and thus being able to contact me, but not a single thing have I heard. And I started to worry if there was an accident on the bus trip home, or if she had gotten an allergy attack again, etc. However, when I came home today, I saw that she had written one sentence for me, in a cell phone message. I wrote her back, asking how she was, and saying I hoped she could write soon or come to ICQ soon, because I missed her and I was worried.
Enough of that. A few days ago, my paternal grandmother called me. Amongst other things, she told me, that she and my paternal grandfather had a talk with the local vicar, and they had been planning their burial. I know that they're both are pushing 80, but still it was rather weird to talk with her about her own funeral. I then asked her, if they wanted to be buried in coffin or burned, and she said, that the two of them differed, and asked me, if I knew who desired what. I then remembered a conversation I had with my grandfather several years ago (I think it was the last time I saw them), where I asked him about his parents (my great-grandparents), and he said, that there was no point, they were both dead, and there is no reason to occupy oneself with them anymore. Then I said to him, that if he had that belief, then he should be aware, that when he died, then people would stop caring about him, and he would stop meaning anything for anyone the second he died. He replied he was aware of this, and that he wanted this. When I remembered that conversation, I knew that it was he who wanted to be burned and my grandmother who wanted to be buried in a coffin. My grandmother said that I was correct, and she sounded very surprised that I knew this, which made me very happy, because it shows, that I do know my grandparents on some deep degree, and I think that was sending a signal of respect towards them. To finish it up, then I told, that a great-grandfather on my other side of the family had two wifes (of course not at the same time) who both had died long before he did. They were buried together in a grave, that only had room for two coffins, and as he wanted both his past wifes to have burial peace, he wanted to be burned, and the urn placed in the grave. So my grandparents could do the same thing, with my grandfather's urn placed in my grandmother's coffin. My grandmother then said, that this was exactly what they had intended to do.
That was a rather dark thing, but to me, the next thing was worse. Friday night, in the kitchen, some drunken people had placed a DVD player on top of the telly, which was on top of the fridge. But obviously, they hadn't placed it securely, because late Saturday when I was in the kitchen, closing the fridge, then the dorr slamming made the DVD player fall down and smashed. Even though I felt myself unblameable, I was extremely worried. I gathered the pieces and gave up fixing it. I then wrote a message saying, that I had found it on the floor (yeah, yeah, I know, a lie) and then got out of there in rapid speed.
Oh, and I've started reading a little bit. Whee, finally I'm doing something sensible! Of course I haven't read in relation to my actual assignment, but I did continue a bit further in Rousseau's Confessions (which I mentioned on Oct. 6th).
In news that interests no one, then I made an awesome background, consisting of my (so far, have only listened to a little) 12 favourite albums from the various Amon Düül groups - my revelation these past weeks.
And as no one here knows, then I'm biased about the old TV-show Twin Peaks, so I had to take a test about it. It's quite funny, I'm rather tall, the talest in my sorroundings, and even though there were no questions on height nor tall'ness, I ended with the tallest person in the entire show.
You are the Giant. You're mysterious, benevolent,
and spooky as all get-out. Though you're
extremely wise, your cryptic demeanor unnerves
the hell out of folks. So does your bow tie.
Which Twin Peaks character are you?
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PS. There's huge problems with my LJ e-mail notofications. Sometimes I see there's a comment, that I wasn't notificated about. So, if anyone has written something anywhere that I should have replied to, but haven't, then that's most likely the cause.
PPS. I wrote this entry once, but my browser cracked up, and I had to do it all over. So if this update sounds rather forced and rushed, then that's why.