STOP!!!!

People need to stop dying. No one else that I remotely know is allowed to die any time soon, OK? In the last 3 weeks, 4 people that I "know" (by association or whatever) have died. What is the deal?

I'm going to NY tomorrow, for a funeral of a reallllly close family friend. Bill Landschoot. His wife was my dad's secretary for as long as he was superintendent at Clifton. I remember spending time with them in my earliest memories. They were sorta like my second set of god-parents or something. And when we moved to NC, we just happened to move up the street from their son & family, and I've taken care of their kids ever since then. It's so very sad. It makes me worry about something happening to my parents, and I'm over here in TN too far away from them. Just makes me want to finish up and move back as soon as I can so I can spend as much time as possible with my family and friends. This is no good.

Anyway, for a last minute flight, I got a pretty good deal, only $207 bucks, to fly out Saturday. It was almost $700 to fly out on Sunday, what the heck? The funeral is on Monday and I'm coming back on Tuesday. What a sucky way to get a random trip to NY. =(