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From Moji:

Re cards, flowers etc: we'll have a discussion when we get there, but our idea is that that stuff would be great to have for the service, which looks like it'll be in mid-February. In terms of donations, we're thinking that we want to set up a fund of some sort at a school here to encourage girls to go into IT.

Thank you for sharing that, Allyson.

we're thinking that we want to set up a fund of some sort at a school here to encourage girls to go into IT.

Very cool and worthy.

Thanks Allyson.

Thanks, Allyson!

Today at work one of my coworkers made a joke about death that, as it happened, made me laugh all the harder than it would have if no one in my world had died so recently. (I swear it's a family trait. We love and grieve as much as anyone, but we also crack wise at funeral homes while picking out caskets.) I'm so glad they didn't ask me why I was laughing about twice as hard as I normally do over office humor, because then they would've felt bad over the joke...and the whole time I was thinking that I was pretty sure it would've made ita laugh too.

I'm going to need a headcount of LAistas who would like to have brunch with ita's family next Sunday. It'd be on the West side.

Allyson, the 25th?

So fitting, the scholarship idea. The admins will have to put in an autocorrect to force lowercase i ita, damnit.

Count me in.

Kiba, that's good news! Glad to hear it.

Allyson, thanks for telling us. The scholarship sounds perfect.