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Dec. 29th, 2004 05:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ealgyldenI had a great Christmas. Nice(ish) weather, delicious food, lovely cards from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
castalianspring and mrkinch to open- thank you so much, you fabulous ladies!- (and have I done my own cards yet? Um. Well, I have until Epiphany, right?), lack of familial annoyances large or small, the knowledge that my mom ordered me a cookbook I really, really want, The Glorious Foods of Greece, even if the postal system is still holding it hostage... good things! All good things.
Well, of course that didn't last, for me or anyone else. I haven't posted about the crisis in Asia and I doubt I will, except to say that I grieve for those lost, hold out hope for those who shall yet be saved, and continue to support Doctors Without Borders as my charity of choice. I also sadly mark the passing of Susan Sontag and Jerry Orbach, talented and admirable people both. And, because the week wasn't dark enough already, tonight's "Fallen Heroes" segment on the CBS Evening News will be about my life-long friend Travis, who was killed in Iraq back in September 2003. I've been dreading turning on the news one night and being struck with this, so part of me is glad that today's paper mentioned it, giving enough me hours to brace myself. Most of me wishes that there were no need because Travis was home and safe and studying forensics. Too bad none of us get that wish.
So when I got up this morning I had planned to answer comments (finally) and catch up on a few posts from you guys that needed hugs or giggles or snark, maybe chat about last night's House, maybe post on the first half of the season on Joan of Arcadia (I have until it comes back on Jan. 7 for that, at least), probably do a big GIP with the shiny new icons I beggedaithine into making for me... something fannish and light and maybe even interesting (could happen, right?). Not today, as it turns out. Today, I am cold and grey and in need of tea. I would say "just let it be next year already, because surely next year will be better," except that I've said that for the last two years and no luck yet. So just let it be tomorrow already. Surely tomorrow will be better.
castalianspring and mrkinch to open- thank you so much, you fabulous ladies!- (and have I done my own cards yet? Um. Well, I have until Epiphany, right?), lack of familial annoyances large or small, the knowledge that my mom ordered me a cookbook I really, really want, The Glorious Foods of Greece, even if the postal system is still holding it hostage... good things! All good things. Well, of course that didn't last, for me or anyone else. I haven't posted about the crisis in Asia and I doubt I will, except to say that I grieve for those lost, hold out hope for those who shall yet be saved, and continue to support Doctors Without Borders as my charity of choice. I also sadly mark the passing of Susan Sontag and Jerry Orbach, talented and admirable people both. And, because the week wasn't dark enough already, tonight's "Fallen Heroes" segment on the CBS Evening News will be about my life-long friend Travis, who was killed in Iraq back in September 2003. I've been dreading turning on the news one night and being struck with this, so part of me is glad that today's paper mentioned it, giving enough me hours to brace myself. Most of me wishes that there were no need because Travis was home and safe and studying forensics. Too bad none of us get that wish.
So when I got up this morning I had planned to answer comments (finally) and catch up on a few posts from you guys that needed hugs or giggles or snark, maybe chat about last night's House, maybe post on the first half of the season on Joan of Arcadia (I have until it comes back on Jan. 7 for that, at least), probably do a big GIP with the shiny new icons I begged
aithine into making for me... something fannish and light and maybe even interesting (could happen, right?). Not today, as it turns out. Today, I am cold and grey and in need of tea. I would say "just let it be next year already, because surely next year will be better," except that I've said that for the last two years and no luck yet. So just let it be tomorrow already. Surely tomorrow will be better.
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Hug
Date: 2005-01-16 10:59 pm (UTC)I'm so glad that Travis is being honored, but so sorry that you're having to deal with all of this. It's terrible how these things can hit you all over again, even a while after the event. Here's lots of love and support from the wilds of Ohio. Miss you.
Re: Hug
Date: 2005-02-09 06:26 am (UTC)Re: Hug
Date: 2005-02-14 09:15 pm (UTC)Happy Valentine's Day. I'm sitting in office hours (with no customers) trying to motivate into action of some kind. I wasn't around this weekend, but it's the last weekend for a long time that I won't be. So please call at will. I'd love to discuss the universe and why I recently decided that people are bothersome and reconfirmed that I am really really really gay.
Love,
Bets