Updates on Life and Death
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eredienMy website has now been updated. Only a little, but it's better than nothing.
And in other news. Just when things seemed to be getting a little bit better....
It was a beautiful day outside today. The birds were singing, the squirrels were skittering, the chipmunks were doing whatever it is chipminks do. And classes started off really nicely. I finished writing my Russian essay page and put it up on the server. For my Medieval Court Culture class we listened to these fascinating CDs of music from the 1100's, and my professor promised to loan me a book on pronouncing Medieval Old French, convienent for fun, writing, and Renaissance Choir. I went to lunch and was introduced to my friend Jessie's parents, who seemed nice and reasonable. I went to work and had fun, as I do most days.
I went downstairs to the Carpenter Library computer lab to check my email, because at that point in the afternoon my brain was shot and I thought I'd do something to relax and cheer me up.
My mom's email read thusly:
When are you coming home? You need to bring the digital camera. Your aunt's dad died. (This I knew.)
Oh, and our next-door neighbor for about ten years who babysat my sister and I after school and who has for the past few years been put into a nursing home for Alzheimer's died.
This, I did not know. And it kind of worries me that after I found this out, I thought about it for a moment, then immediately went into the library next door and commenced three-odd hours of research for my upcoming paper in said Medieval Court Culture class.
My brain really has ceased working.
And in other news. Just when things seemed to be getting a little bit better....
It was a beautiful day outside today. The birds were singing, the squirrels were skittering, the chipmunks were doing whatever it is chipminks do. And classes started off really nicely. I finished writing my Russian essay page and put it up on the server. For my Medieval Court Culture class we listened to these fascinating CDs of music from the 1100's, and my professor promised to loan me a book on pronouncing Medieval Old French, convienent for fun, writing, and Renaissance Choir. I went to lunch and was introduced to my friend Jessie's parents, who seemed nice and reasonable. I went to work and had fun, as I do most days.
I went downstairs to the Carpenter Library computer lab to check my email, because at that point in the afternoon my brain was shot and I thought I'd do something to relax and cheer me up.
My mom's email read thusly:
When are you coming home? You need to bring the digital camera. Your aunt's dad died. (This I knew.)
Oh, and our next-door neighbor for about ten years who babysat my sister and I after school and who has for the past few years been put into a nursing home for Alzheimer's died.
This, I did not know. And it kind of worries me that after I found this out, I thought about it for a moment, then immediately went into the library next door and commenced three-odd hours of research for my upcoming paper in said Medieval Court Culture class.
My brain really has ceased working.