senior Drama students who want to do all manner of wacky things. I'll especially advise them on how to do such things with absolutely no budget.

Hee. We already have that at my school. It's called "Senior Experimentals," and it is so very cool. Drew supervised many of them when he taught theatre there.

Just got a talking to from one of Dad's friends. Apparently word of his memorial didn't get out to at least part of the Shriners so they didn't know he had died and that the memorial had happened. The subtext was that I should have known who to call. Just what I needed tonight.

Well fuck.

OH FOR FUCKSSAKE!!! Give me a number, and so help me God I will give those fuckos a piece of my mind. SCREW them. How dare they chastise a grieving son for not knowing how to reach every single person??

at least part

So. At least part of them knew. And they did know who to call. Passive-aggressive motherfuckers in their little scooter-cars and fezzes.

Huh. Are there any open teaching jobs in Seattle or Sf right now? I could sleep in my car...or, apparently, with a rotating smorgasbord of emotionally-totured hot guys! Fun!

Bring teaching cert, red lipstick and condoms!

Oh, shit, ND. I'm sorry. So epically not what you needed.

eta: Also, what amych said. It's extremely passive-aggressive weaselly of them, and they can STFU anytime now.

Passive-aggressive motherfuckers in their little scooter-cars and fezzes.

Heh. Let's kick some SHRINER ass!

It's ridiculous, Drew. I mean, I wonder what would happen I suddenly died -- there's no way my parents and friends could contact everyone that would want to (I think) know.

(Although, on a macabre note, I HAVE told my parents if I ever kicked off suddenly that they should come here and leave a message, and I know my dad would try. It would be like World of Warcraft, without killer polar bears, to him.)

EDIT: ON reflection, that post turned into me-me-me, and that's not what I intended. It's just, almost no one in today's flung out society, can be expected to know all the contacts in another person's life, even if they are close.

Honey they were grieving too. They've known dad for at least 25 years and didn't even know he had died. I had to break that news to them as well. I'm upset that word did not get out to all the Masonic organizations. I was assured that it would. It is all made from suck and adds to the list of calls I need to make tomorrow.

I know they were grieving. I know that it was upsetting. I just...there's no way you could have known that the word didn't get out as the others had promised it would. I'm just angry at the situation and upset that you had to take any flak for it at all.

Yeah, I think immediate family should have at least a 2 week period before someone gives them a "talking to," subtexty or not.

The idea of a memorial is to celebrate a person's life and grive their passing, and to support that person's family. It's too bad they weren't there for the formal memorial, but I would think that this would not supercede (should NOT supercede) their own informal memorial and any support they could wish to give to the fam.

I mean, aren't Masons all about the widow's son, anyway?

(Granted, all my Mason stuff comes from the Illuminatus trilogy, so it's awee bit skewed...or, who knows, maybe right on?)