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Nov 04, 2005 01:44

Today, at work, our General Manager died.

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hopita November 4 2005, 17:01:42 UTC
It ties back into so many things, like the whole Rob drama. Like why am I still with a man who clearly doesn't want to be with me? Like my string of non-relationships. And like the fact that I just don't fucking want to live alone anymore. I don't want to end up like Richard Brautigan, lying dead in my apartment for a week before someone finally notices the smell. It happened to my Aunt Betty too. She sytematically drove away everyone in her life ... friends, relatives, everyone. So when she finally died, she lay dead in her house for who knows how long until a gardener happened to find her. I don't want to die alone.

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suewan November 4 2005, 08:05:23 UTC
Who was your roommate? I'm curious, a blonde woman springs to mind but I can't for the life of me remember her name. It doesn't matter, but heck, she was overbearing and I found her difficult, too. She slept with someone I was involved with and didn't give two shits. I remember then hearing about her death and feeling nothing. I'm sorry, Hope. That reads a bit insensitive, doesn't it? Take care and look after yourself. What a weird day!

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hopita November 4 2005, 15:40:36 UTC
She wasn't my roommate -- she just lived on my hall. Her name was Stacy Goebel and yes, she was blonde, and yes, she was overbearing and difficult. Someone once told me about the way that someone (Bill Bernhard?) described her at some memorial service: that she always borrowed your stuff, but that she always gave it back. This is true -- I always did get my stuff back -- but if that's the best thing that you can say about a person then ... um, yea.

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ratphooey November 4 2005, 12:28:30 UTC
Wow.

Holy crap.

I'd have called in sick to work this week.

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hopita November 4 2005, 15:44:42 UTC
Well, I'm off today and tomorrow, though honestly, I'm really curious as to what's going to be happening there today. By the time I left last night, there was a huge sign taped to the time clock advising all employees to talk to their managers ASAP (just so the news could be broken).

Wow.

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telephasic November 4 2005, 13:13:03 UTC
Somebody I knew from my floor senior year of college was one of the people on one of the planes that hit the twin towers. The fact she was a republican bitch I never had a civil conversation with (she mostly just yelled at me to keep quiet) made it all the stranger.

What did ghe general manager look like?

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hopita November 4 2005, 15:42:20 UTC
Older, mostly bald, glasses, terrible teeth. I'm sure there will be news about it. Maybe not the mainsteam media, but in The Co-operator and on the website, certainly.

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ookii_risu November 4 2005, 15:35:40 UTC
What did he die from? Was it a heart attack? He probably felt sick or something so that's why he left early... ugh... *hugs*

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hopita November 4 2005, 17:03:30 UTC
Yea, that's about what we figure. We knew he had a heart condition, so, yea, we assume he probably didn't feel well and that's why decided to go home early. The irnoy is that if he'd stayed at work, he might have been saved.

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