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Somber Topic and then life update
Dec. 4th, 2007 04:05 pmI just called my dad and he told me that because he was sick, he wouldn't be able to go to the wake of a friend of the family. Who apparently passed away a week ago Monday. I guess we've had a lot going on, and I don't call home that often these days, so. It's not going to break the pattern of my life, but it's sad. My dad used to work with his brother, Rich, and we always all went out to eat together when we visited Dad at work, and now Rich is sort of alone. And Bradley worked for my dad and he was a really good guy, and quite young, I'd say in his 40s. But he was really sick, he had cancer. It's weird, a while ago Dad was telling me that Bradley wasn't doing that well and I sort of realized that he might not get better. Except I phrased it in my head that i'd have to prepare myself mentally for the possibility that Bradley might not get better. Which is an odd thing to think because I don't think about Bradley that much, but actually I think it did help.
It was still sort of a shock though. I'm not sad, really, but I'm sad for Rich and also for my dad.
I don't know what else to say, so I'm just going to move on and hope I don't seem callous. I'm mentally switching gears.
I've been having a lot of trouble with my math homework, partly because it's hard and partly because I let it pile up, but I just went to my professor's office hours (which is something I almost never do) and he was incredibly helpful and I should be able to get myself on schedule pretty soon. I feel a lot better about the whole thing, I was really stressed.
And I got an A on my Religion in Southeast Asia final. Which is a big relief, and takes some pressure off for our final "creative projects" which I'm not pumped about because I hate doing creative stuff. He's all "one of the requirements is that you should have fun doing it." ::sigh:: We'll see. He's got a lot of other requirements that make that one difficult for me, if not for my fruity fellow students.
Sophian tonight - didn't go yesterday because there were no articles in yet. !!!!!!! Hopefully that will not be the case this evening.
Then tomorrow roommate!Corey and I have a study date in a big concert hall that we hear is often left open and empty. I'm sort of pumped, hopefully we can sneak in and do homework there.
This weekend lots of plans with friends, which is awesome. Although also a fair amount of work: less awesome. But yeah, Friday night we're going to get together and play munchkin and stuff. There's also a senior wine and cheese in my house, I think. That might be Saturday? I. . . don't really like those, but I might go, especially if I can convince Corey to come too. But I really want to go on a late night diner trip! I'm a Long Island girl, that's a good time for me. But if Corey doesn't want to drive, that's cool.
Then Saturday is a holiday party, at which we're doing a Yankee Swap, which I've never done before. On Thursday I need to go shopping and stuff. But I don't need to buy snack for my seminar because the beautiful awesome Steph bought me cookies! Total win! It's a major load off my mind.
The Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers concert that I went to last Saturday with Corey and Britney (another friend) was AWESOME! I barely knew what group we were seeing, and I don't know the Sixers at all, really, but it was totally fun! The venue was really, really nice, the Iron Horse? I'd heard about it, cos it's the famous sort of, I guess my english friends would call it a gig venue. But I'd never been to a concert there and it was so charming, all wood furniture and stuff. And the Sixers themselves were great! I liked their songs a lot - not enough to want to buy a CD or even pirate one of my friends' CDs, but definitely enough to be bopping around having a good time. And they were really funny and entertaining as well, and all the band were cute. It was great. I was really happy to have gone. And then afterwards we got hot chocolate and then we watched an episode of the West Wing. Good times all round!
Hmm, that ended on a jarring note compared to the beginning. I'll go take a shower and leave you all in confusion.
It was still sort of a shock though. I'm not sad, really, but I'm sad for Rich and also for my dad.
I don't know what else to say, so I'm just going to move on and hope I don't seem callous. I'm mentally switching gears.
I've been having a lot of trouble with my math homework, partly because it's hard and partly because I let it pile up, but I just went to my professor's office hours (which is something I almost never do) and he was incredibly helpful and I should be able to get myself on schedule pretty soon. I feel a lot better about the whole thing, I was really stressed.
And I got an A on my Religion in Southeast Asia final. Which is a big relief, and takes some pressure off for our final "creative projects" which I'm not pumped about because I hate doing creative stuff. He's all "one of the requirements is that you should have fun doing it." ::sigh:: We'll see. He's got a lot of other requirements that make that one difficult for me, if not for my fruity fellow students.
Sophian tonight - didn't go yesterday because there were no articles in yet. !!!!!!! Hopefully that will not be the case this evening.
Then tomorrow roommate!Corey and I have a study date in a big concert hall that we hear is often left open and empty. I'm sort of pumped, hopefully we can sneak in and do homework there.
This weekend lots of plans with friends, which is awesome. Although also a fair amount of work: less awesome. But yeah, Friday night we're going to get together and play munchkin and stuff. There's also a senior wine and cheese in my house, I think. That might be Saturday? I. . . don't really like those, but I might go, especially if I can convince Corey to come too. But I really want to go on a late night diner trip! I'm a Long Island girl, that's a good time for me. But if Corey doesn't want to drive, that's cool.
Then Saturday is a holiday party, at which we're doing a Yankee Swap, which I've never done before. On Thursday I need to go shopping and stuff. But I don't need to buy snack for my seminar because the beautiful awesome Steph bought me cookies! Total win! It's a major load off my mind.
The Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers concert that I went to last Saturday with Corey and Britney (another friend) was AWESOME! I barely knew what group we were seeing, and I don't know the Sixers at all, really, but it was totally fun! The venue was really, really nice, the Iron Horse? I'd heard about it, cos it's the famous sort of, I guess my english friends would call it a gig venue. But I'd never been to a concert there and it was so charming, all wood furniture and stuff. And the Sixers themselves were great! I liked their songs a lot - not enough to want to buy a CD or even pirate one of my friends' CDs, but definitely enough to be bopping around having a good time. And they were really funny and entertaining as well, and all the band were cute. It was great. I was really happy to have gone. And then afterwards we got hot chocolate and then we watched an episode of the West Wing. Good times all round!
Hmm, that ended on a jarring note compared to the beginning. I'll go take a shower and leave you all in confusion.
