Kathy, I'm so sorry about your friend.
I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me—
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
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 17, 2007 9:39:59 am PDT #1104 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Kathy A - Sep 17, 2007 9:40:37 am PDT #1105 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I got a vivid, heartwarming picture in my mind of a woman with bright eyes and an even brighter smile.
That's Norma! It's been several years since I've seen her, but luckily, the department I'm in now is filled with people who've been here forever, so some of them still had sporadic contact with her, even though she was laid off back in 2000.
The dept. I started in back in 1992 was where I first met Norma. To show how well-loved she was (and still is, among us old-timers), our department's birthday tradition was that people brought in food on your birthday. You could generally tell how popular you were by the number of dishes brought in; new or not very well-liked people got the standard 5-6 dishes, others got more. When it was Norma's b-day, we had to bring in extra tables for all the food brought in from around the company, because everyone knew her, and to know her was to love her.
beekaytee - Sep 17, 2007 9:44:07 am PDT #1106 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
What a beautiful metaphor of caring...bringing a dish. I truly believe that being loved like that carries with us over the big thresholds in our lives.
Godspeed Norma.
Stephanie - Sep 17, 2007 9:47:08 am PDT #1107 of 10001
Trust my rage
Kathy, I'm so sorry.
Stephanie - Sep 17, 2007 9:59:56 am PDT #1108 of 10001
Trust my rage
flea, thanks for the info. I have a strange situation where this woman says she is HIV+, but there's no evidence of it in her file - including a negative HIV test. I just thought it was curious.
Fred Pete - Sep 17, 2007 10:00:01 am PDT #1109 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Many sympathies to Norma and those close to her.
Sue - Sep 17, 2007 10:02:35 am PDT #1110 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I hope it's not a bad omen that on our wood anniversary I had my maple tree cut down. (It was too close to the house.) They also cut my forsythia back, which is totally freaking me out, but they tell me it will come back. Poor tree, 40 years to grow and an hour to cut it down.
§ ita § - Sep 17, 2007 10:03:06 am PDT #1111 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, my mother's first name is Norma. This is very weird to read.
I am very sorry to hear the news and hope she passes with grace, but I really can't think about it without getting twitchy.
megan walker - Sep 17, 2007 10:03:39 am PDT #1112 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
They also cut my forsythia back, which is totally freaking me out, but they tell me it will come back.
Forsythia generally come back with a vengeance.
Sue - Sep 17, 2007 10:11:12 am PDT #1113 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I'm so sorry about your friend Kathy. Much peace-ma is going her way.
Forsythia generally come back with a vengeance.
Oh good.