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February 28, 2008
Synchronicity and Absence
I have been missing from Chattablogs for a little while now, and I feel bad about it. However, I've been very busy with good luck and kind favors lately. I've been kept very busy holding down two less-than-part-time jobs on top of everything else I do. One of these jobs will hopefully send me to England over the summer, and I've been enjoying it enormously. It involves a great deal of filling, and so whenever I have a spare hour or two I get to shut myself up in an unused conference room, crank up my mp3 player, and do embarrassing booty-dances while I put pieces of paper where they need to go.
The good fortune and kindness comes in this week, when I found out that a paper I wrote has been accepted to a national conference-- the first I've ever been accepted to. On top of that, I've kindly been offered a very generous scholarship to help me be able to attend. And even greater, my roommate got accepted to a prestigious Chemistry program in Germany for over the summer. To celebrate we all went out to Durty Nelly's, which sadly enough will only be open for one more day tomorrow before it closes forever. We all enjoyed hamburgers and Dear Boyfriend and I alone enjoyed the Guinesses-mixed-with-things (Black Velvet-- Guiness and champagne and Poor Man's Black Velvet-- Guiness and cider) since we were the only eligible public drinkers.
As for the synchronicity of the universe part of the subject line, there's been an odd, and completely coincidental, amount of talk about suicide lately. Mostly the philosophy of the act has come up in a number of unrelated classes-- the American Drama class Dear Boyfriend and I take together has been reading a play that questions suicide, and a coworker of ours has been reading up on the philosophy of suicide for another class. The first song that came on the radio when we were driving to Durty Nelly's last night was about the topic. Maybe I am just pricking my ears up a bit more when the word comes up after a friend's mother's coworker sadly committed suicide last weekend. I wonder if there is something unusual going on astrologically, or just a creepy energy bouncing around. Did the Lunar Eclipse set something off? Because it's starting to get a little weird. It seems an uneasy balance for so many good things to be happening when we are all thinking about such a sad occurrence.
I'll be getting back to work now, but I hope everyone has a good day and hopefully I'll find a minute to post a Friday Creature tomorrow.
| By Spike | 02:33 PM
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