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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.
I think my sister's multibaby shower conflicts. I *told* her to time her pregnancies better...
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.I was so grateful to be with S at Billy's service in March. I knew a lot of people there but few that I could really trust when I was that fragile.
What scrappy said.
And I think a peer dying is always hard.
ita--your presence is what counts, ita. I am sure that you will both give and recieve comfort tomorrow, which is as it should be.Oh, as usual, what Robin said.
She is wise and right.
ita, I hope I didn't make it harder in defining it. I hope you can find people to draw around you, that you find comfort in. It doesn't matter who knew who longer, just that you knew. I didn't have that and didn't seek it until it was too late, and I've gotta say, it left me a bit adrift. Sucks.
There was a void that came in our small circle, one I don't know was filled, but we tried. For 3 years. It took us until the last of his students neared graduation and I crawled into someone's lap and lost my shit for us to acknowlege our loss. And now? He's a legend at our small school. I didn't do it, not at all, those before did, and passed it on to me.
FWIW, Giada was actually born in Rome and lived there until she was 7.
hm, didn't know that. Oh, well, why let the truth get in the way of a good rant :)
Just realized that Nip/Tuck is premiering this week. I can't really get excited about it, maybe because the Carver denouement was such a complete clusterfuck of vastly improbably proportions that I no longer have any confidence in the writers. Here's hoping that they've all been fired and the new people are much better.
Robin's wise, as usual, ita. The simple fact of your presence will bring comfort, and as a wise woman mentioned recently in my live journal,
"Tears are not useless, and fighting them is a waste of your beautiful strength. If they come, let them come. Better than letting them build up. "
Hmmm, I've been to only one non-family funeral, come to think of it, and that was to a friend's father's internment, so I was there for her. It's not that I haven't had friends die, but the ceremonies were either too far away or kept deliberately small.
6:30 AM in Utah and I've been at work for half an hour. Granted, seeng the faint signs of dawn behind the eastern mountains was kind of cool, but, really, I'd rather be at bed with more House S1 DVDs to watch.
I'd have brought them to work to watch on my wide-screen flat-panel work monitor, but Hubby pouted.
8:33 AM here in Somerville -- I have to run get dressed, I'm picking friends up for a t/r/i/p/expedition to IKEA, where we'll have a $0.99 breakfast and then shop our little hearts out....
9:01 here in Maine. I've been up since ass o'clock this morning; I don't have the paper; it's not beach weather and the internets worry.