And on a totally different topic...

Something else happened over the holidays. I meant to include it in my little wrap up of the major events, but in retrospect, I'm glad I didn't. It would have been a disservice to the seriousness of the event. I likely didn't think of it, as I was in kind of a happy place while thinking of all the fun I had over the last week and a half, and when I'm in those kinds of mindsets, the bad stuff doesn't come to mind.

I'm not going to get into any details, as I guess I probably didn't know her that well (to put it in 21st century terms, I had her email, but didn't have her on MSN), but it's still startling to see people you know crying on the cover of national newspapers. It's the kind of thing that really throws you. And kind of leaves you wondering what on earth to do.

I emailed the only common acquaintance I know, and we agreed that electronic communication would ring painfully hollow, and yet I had no other way to contact her. So I haven't. And given time, I think that's the best way. My immediate reaction was to send some kind of consolation. To reach out... but who the hell am I to assume that role? As I said, I really don't know her particularly well, so I'm just going to leave it alone. I can't possibly know what she's going through, so it's likely better this way.

I'm not sure I had a point to this, but I use this venue to get things out of my head, and this one had been bouncing around for a while, so here we are.