* i gave my talk in princeton. it went well, and not only did eric and phil come down from rutgers to hear it, ilia (one of my REU students this summer who is an undergrad at princeton) attended too... how cool is that?
* i have a new favorite hiding place to study. it didn't exist a week ago and now it's the perfect place for me to get work done and avoid others. i like it.
* i found 3 new (much needed) pairs of shoes...
on the downside...
roy, my stepgrandpa for the past 9 years, died tonight. kind of how my grandma died last summer a month after her little sister died, roy died tonight, just a month after his little brother died. he'd been in the nursing home since the week when grandma died last summer, and had been up and down in health, but rather incoherent since his brother died this summer. he'd been stable though until last night when he started being unresponsive. around 4/5pm tonight he was transported to the hospital where he was a bit agitated but still unresponsive. my aunt priscilla drove up and sang to him and read him Bible stories for 2 hours until she was losing her voice, and knowing more family was coming later in the evening, and not knowing how long things would go/if/when he'd improve, she headed back home... 10 minutes after she left, she got a call that he'd died and she went right back and stayed with the rest of the family until his body was transported away. visitation thursday, funeral friday, neither of which i can attend since i have to teach friday morning and fly to california friday afternoon. i'm happy roy's at peace now body and mind. it's not quite the same as losing a grandparent, but similar. i guess i can count it now as having 1 out of 5 left (g-pa p., g-pa and g-ma s., and now roy are all gone, just g-ma p. is left) i'm sad, but also thankful that i did have him around the past 9 years... it's just strange that he's not there anymore, even if i'm far away...
life. oi...
the end.
1 comment:
I'm sorry for your loss.
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