Things

[temples]

The Hunger Games is a very good film! Soul-crushing if you cling to pacifist ideals like I do. (And sitting in a chair for two-some hours without moving or being able to stretch my legs meant I hobbled out of the theatre. I love doing that, really.)

There was a limping squirrel trying to cross the street when Friend and I were driving home. I made her drive around it because watching it pull itself up onto the curb with obvious struggle was the most heartbreaking thing ever.

I hope you live another however-many-years, Dave the Squirrel.

Came home to funeral details! And by that I mean, an abrupt e-mail throwing a website at me and a thing that may possibly be a phone number. It was her birthday yesterday and she would have been only 66.

The funeral is the same day as Distant Worlds, which is about what I feared.

.... I don't feel very good right now.

Comments

[sincere]

There is nothing you can do. You have prior plans. Plans you paid a lot of nonrefundable money for! Call your cousin after the funeral to check in and express your condolences and all that. But don't feel bad.

/rubs leg

You and that squirrel are sad kindred spirits. :(

[temples]

I did actually pay the extra $7 for insurance so I could get a refund if necessary, but I'm likely not going to go regardless. It's just difficult because so many family members can't go - that side of the family lives all the way across the country, but the funeral is being held in Ottawa, which is only a few hours from where I am. I'd have to get a train ticket and book a hotel room and see my father, mrrr. It's a lot of details, a really short time to do it.

Hopefully this doesn't ruin Distant Worlds for me! >:

If that squirrel can make it across the street, so can Jes! Yeah.

[novel_machinist]

I agree with the do not cancel your plans sentiment. Make a donation in a charity in the departed's name, call and express your condolences. Maybe take someone out for lunch or bring food over in a week or so. It's my experience that after a loss people tend to really need to be reminded of things like food when the whole event dies down.