And a sad one too.

Dr. Jenny is coming home tonight, after being gone for a week. I think she has some good news. Plus it’ll just be good to have her home.

On the other hand, I got this in an email today, an obit for my friend Tj. I’ve known for about a week that he was dead, after some friends of his began spreading the word via email fowards. Lucky enough I was in someone’s address book and got the word, otherwise I probably never would have known. Part of me was hoping it was all maybe a mistake you know, or a prank, some malicious ex-boyfriend or something doing something skanky. But that article puts the nail into it. And I feel bad, I mean, I am gonna miss Tj for sure, he was a great guy, full of life and far more active and healthy for his age than most of the people I know ten or twenty years younger. But I feel bad because ever since I moved away from Seattle, most of my interaction with him was via email, we talked on the phone a few times but those became less and less the longer I was here. The problem is, Tj was one of those annoying emailers, you know the type. Fwd’s with animated gifs of Bush kissing Saddam, or buttcheeks painted up like a jack o’lantern on Halloween, all manner of goofy and not-so-funny imagery. SO, I kinda ignored him a lot. Wouldn’t reply. Deleted the emails sometimes without even really reading them. I always figured “fine, he’s way too annoying on the internets, we’ll be friends again when I move back to Seattle then because I cannot do this”.

And now that’s not gonna happen.

There’s no moral there either, because I haven’t really learned anything. I still won’t read your annoying fwd’d emails, even if you have cancer or AIDs or whatever. I think that makes me a really, really, really bad person then, doesn’t it?

Gah.