current status

my away message last night:

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the past 24 hours of my life?
3-7 am: longest night's sleep since saturday; 7-9am: up and getting ready; 9am-1pm: visitation for kristin's mom; 1-2:30pm: kristin's mom's funeral; 2:30-3:30 funeral dinner; 3:30-5 rode to toledo airport; 5-6 checked in for my 5:55 flight, got frisked for the 3rd time in as many days because i'm apparently a security risk; 6-7:30pm: waited for 1.5 hours in a po dunk ohio airport on account of bad weather; 7:30-9pm: flew to chicago; 9pm-12:30am: waiting around chicago on account of weather, when i should have left at 10; 12:30-2:20: flew from chicago to jersey; 2:20-3: rode back home in eric's car; 3-3:30am ice cream/lara's life stinks right now party with eric

summary: completely exhausted and totally drained, asleep until further notice; unless you want to give me a huge hug, give me space :-P

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since then? asleep from 4am-1:30pm... now to figure out what i want to do besides curl up in a ball.

oh, i also came back to this mass email to the math dept.

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Thyagaraju "Raju" Chelluri (1977-2004)

We regret to inform you that Raju Chelluri was killed on
Saturday, August 21, by an Amtrak train at the New Brunswick station.
He was a graduate student in the mathematics department at Rutgers.

Funeral services will be conducted on Friday August 27, at the
Franklin Memorial Park Mausoleum, located on Route 27 in North Brunswick
(just South of Cozzens Lane, call 732-545-4184). During 11:00AM-1:00PM
there will be a family visitation; a Hindu ceremony will begin at 1:00PM
and the cremation will be at 1:45PM.

Next Monday, August 30, a grief counselor will lead a discussion at 1:30PM
in our Graduate Student Lounge (H701, Hill Center). Additional grief
counseling is available from the Rutger College Counseling Center (932-7884).
The department plans to commemorate Raju on September 10.

A police brief about his death has appeared in the Home News:
http://www.thnt.com/thnt/story/0,21282,1034264,00.html

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i didn't know raju, but i have friends who did.... it's gonna be a weird week.