I really don't have any words, ita. I'm sorry.
Flames wouldn't be eternal if they actually consumed anything.
Lilah ,'Not Fade Away'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Sep 02, 2006 6:37:03 pm PDT #5778 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sue - Sep 02, 2006 6:43:32 pm PDT #5779 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I'm sorry ita.
In happier news, since I'm home now, and I won't be for my birthday, my family had a birthday dinner for me tonight. My 10-year old nephew planned it, so we had all his favourites (crappy Chinese and Ice-cream Cake) and it was fun. I got a few gifts (I don't normally do birthday presents with my siblings. I'm still full. Good times.
Cass - Sep 02, 2006 6:48:45 pm PDT #5780 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
My 10-year old nephew planned it, so we had all his favourites (crappy Chinese and Ice-cream Cake)So much fun!
I do wonder at what the Nephlet (also 10) would do if he planned a party. And I am scared a little.
Lee - Sep 02, 2006 6:53:46 pm PDT #5781 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
That sounds like a lovely evening, Sue.
When is your birthday?
Sue - Sep 02, 2006 7:00:51 pm PDT #5782 of 10001
hip deep in pie
It was a fun night. My actual birthday is the 20th.
Lee - Sep 02, 2006 7:23:30 pm PDT #5783 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Another September baby. There are a lot of us around.
I've done laundry, and most of the dishes, and now have a gimlet and am mainlining Arrested Development. YAY.
sarameg - Sep 02, 2006 7:28:15 pm PDT #5784 of 10001
The hardest funeral I've ever been to (and really, only one other is in the running though there were more) was for my freshman physics prof. The reason I chose that school. What made it hard was that it was the first that I'd had to do on my own, and the utter and complete devastation of those who'd known him longer. So I kinda get it.
I was poor, I didn't have anything right to wear, even as I knew, chosing something right? Was impossible.
Wear something you are comfy in. And if you can stretch, something she would have admired.
One of the defining moments for me (defining of what, I don't know) was sitting at the memorial service, in a balck theater, watching dust motes and sensing the unbearable spring outside. Full of life, bees buzzing, redbuds blooming ..and this guy was dead.
Cass - Sep 02, 2006 7:33:24 pm PDT #5785 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Dude, your birthday dinner was nearly a year ago, Lee??? That is unpossible. Except for that pesky whole trip around the sun thing.
Lee - Sep 02, 2006 7:37:09 pm PDT #5786 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Minus about 2 weeks, yep.
Hey, wanna go to Vegas, with Juliana and Emily and I, in about 2 weeks?
§ ita § - Sep 02, 2006 7:38:29 pm PDT #5787 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, man. Thanks, sara. I now realise this my first non-family funeral. That accounts for a lot of fear and feelings of isolation. Usually I'd have someone I'm really very close to to lean on, and I'm not afraid of losing it in front of them.