Life is fragile. Sorry for the suddenness of it all. Even when not close to the person it can be jarring.
Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.
Giles ,'Get It Done'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
Laura - Apr 19, 2014 6:31:52 am PDT #25697 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Connie Neil - Apr 19, 2014 7:01:28 am PDT #25698 of 30000
brillig
Dear Beloved
I do not like heavy metal. I do not like it, Sam I Am.
Please stop trying to bond with me over Megadeath and Amon Amrath.
Don't make me break out the French opera.
§ ita § - Apr 19, 2014 7:13:58 am PDT #25699 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sorry for the suddenness of it all.
Thanks. My sister was just there! She liked her more than I did, and I said "give it time". Oh, oops.
I could stand the solidarity of a funeral right now, but only very known quantities.
-t - Apr 19, 2014 7:45:37 am PDT #25700 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, wow, ita, I'm sorry. That's a lot to be hit with, even at a little remove.
Amy - Apr 19, 2014 7:46:30 am PDT #25701 of 30000
Because books.
That's awful news, ita. I'm sorry.
-t - Apr 19, 2014 7:46:39 am PDT #25702 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
And separately - happy belated, Sheryl! Hope you can belatedly enjoy some real cake after the holiday...
Jesse - Apr 19, 2014 8:13:15 am PDT #25703 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, that's terrible, ita.
§ ita § - Apr 19, 2014 8:23:04 am PDT #25704 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thanks guys. I know I'm taking it selfishly, but I am parsing it through my knowledge of my mother's experience, and seeing her in Crazy Cousin O's (we have a few relatives that are known as Crazy Cousin ...they are by no means the craziest of the cousins--they are the ones to whom we express affection about their craziness) place is terrifying.
Cousin O was fairly isolated from the kraken that is my extended family. I didn't meet her until I drove to LA and stopped in ABQ to see her. She's definitely a woman who impacted the world around her, and I am sure she will leave a great hole in the lives of the people close to her.
On a totally different note: Reason to go shopping with Neil De Grasse Tyson OR the right answer to "What's up with chicks and science?"
Jesse - Apr 19, 2014 8:31:40 am PDT #25705 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The only thing that is wrong with that is that I wonder what the woman on the panel next to him would have said.
Kat - Apr 19, 2014 8:55:40 am PDT #25706 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Love him!
Just got back from an Easter egg hunt. It was actually terrifying. They released the kids in waves by age. By the time they got to the 4th graders, it was NUTS. They looked like a field of locusts.