Dan Fogelberg has died.
Crap.
Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.
'Ariel'
Spike's Bitches 38: Well, This Is Just...Neat.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
DCJensen - Dec 17, 2007 7:13:26 pm PST #8809 of 10002
All is well that ends in pizza.
Laga - Dec 17, 2007 7:13:28 pm PST #8810 of 10002
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
What kind of drugs?
the smokeable mellow kind
Pix - Dec 17, 2007 7:15:50 pm PST #8811 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I'm so glad the wedding went well! I still can't believe your sister is married. I think about how she was when she was living with you in the months after I moved out to LA, and I'm boggled that she's all settled and hitched now.
Pix - Dec 17, 2007 7:16:55 pm PST #8812 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I'm so sorry you've been sick, Megan, but this?
So far, I'm not missing teaching at all. Of course, maybe that's because I still have to think about all the planning and pedagogy that I loved, while not having any actual grading!Makes me hate you a little. Just a little. But still.
Otherwise I'm just very happy that you're happy. And yes, a trip north is overdue. I will come up as soon as I have time and money to do so.
Laga - Dec 17, 2007 7:17:03 pm PST #8813 of 10002
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I am not a beautiful and unique snowflake. I immediately googled Dan Fogelburp Bloom County.
megan walker - Dec 17, 2007 7:20:22 pm PST #8814 of 10002
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I will come up as soon as I have time and money to do so.
Free place to stay, complete with all the geeky toys, comics, and games that ND could want!
Pix - Dec 17, 2007 7:21:13 pm PST #8815 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
complete with all the geeky toys, comics, and games that ND could want!Well...and you. Duh. Miss you, silly! Where in the city are you, again?
meara - Dec 17, 2007 7:21:55 pm PST #8816 of 10002
It could be worse. My parents are in a box in my sister's basement because she can't bring herself to actually do something with the ashes.
Yep...my grandmother died about a year ago, and my mom was explaining to me that they were not planning a funeral (who would come, besides my mom and her sister and their husbands/kids? No point). But that we would probably scatter her ashes in Chicago in the spring, along with grandpa's. I was like "....isn't grandpa already somewhere??" and her response was "Yes. The back of your aunt's closet." (He'd been dead for...over ten years at that point??).
Of course, no ash-scattering has yet happened, so I have this sneaking suspicion that when my mom or aunt pass away, we'll be going through stuff and have to be all "Maaaan, I don't even know WHOSE ashes these are!"
WindSparrow - Dec 17, 2007 7:25:06 pm PST #8817 of 10002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
When I first got a life insurance policy through a job, I named my sister as beneficiary, on the grounds that she would likely be the one making arrangements anyway. My instructions to her were, "Dispose of the body as cheaply as you can, and have a big party with the rest of the money."
d and beth, thanks for the input on the issue I asked for help with. I'm leaning toward taking the position, knowing ahead of time it will be a whole lot less fun than my current situation. But I know I can do the work, and I believe I can find a way to deal with the extra stress. And I'm hoping that the rewards will be worth the fuss and bother.
megan walker - Dec 17, 2007 7:27:35 pm PST #8818 of 10002
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
(He'd been dead for...over ten years at that point??).
That's the ridiculous thing. My mom's been dead for almost twenty years. My father died about eight years ago, so my sister has had both sets of ashes for that long. Crazy.
Kristin, I live in West Portal, the southwest section of the city, just on the other side of the mountains from downtown, but conveniently located on 3 MUNI lines.