Weird day

If you had to ask me how I might describe today, I'm not even sure I could do it. It's been a weird day. And a sad one. How so?

• Heard that a guy who used to work here and left about a month ago for another job (whose name I've heard but whose face I cannot place) was in a terrible motorcycle accident this morning that was all over the news. It shut down traffic on I-55 during rush hour. I don't know the details of what happened but he's in a coma, both of his lungs have collapsed and his left leg was amputated below the knee. Tragedy.

• I happened to find myself on the facebook page of someone I was in grad school with for only a semester who recently passed away tragically after a long and difficult battle with cancer. She was younger than me. She passed away about 3 weeks ago. Her facebook page is still up and her boyfriend recently posted on it about how much he missed her and her mom has posted on it a few times since her passing that she misses her. Heartbreaking. And fills me with weird emotions. I have this thing about memorializing others on facebook. And I've made my best friend promise if something terrible (God forbid) were to happen to me that he'd immediately take down my account. I'm not passing judgment. I wouldn't dream of it. I'm just unsure how to feel.

• I saw a man fall asleep behind the wheel of his car today while stopped at a red light on my way to the grocery store. A passerby was knocking on his window to wake him. As I left the grocery store (about 3 blocks away), I saw this man's car was rammed into a tree and cops and paramedics were on the scene. I hope he's ok.

• A friend called me tonight to say two of her best friends growing up still live in her small town, are married, have young children, and their husbands teach at schools in the town. Both husbands confessed to sexually assaulting a woman at a party when all three parties were intoxicated. Their faces have been blasted all over the news tonight. Tragedy for them and their families.

And the weird stuff that happened today? Doesn't seem to matter in the grand scheme of life when you hear about all this other stuff. So the fact that I FLIPPED THE EFF OUT when a roach crawled in my lap when I was driving tonight or that I discovered (through trial and error) that my garbage disposal has a SEVERE leak and there's water everywhere in my kitchen and underneath my cabinets, well, small freakin taters.

Here's hoping for the best for the families above and for a quieter sad news free day tomorrow.

Cheers.