It sucks to be treated in such a disrespectful manner! I hope you find a job you love soon!
I remember you mentioning it a while back!
Sorry Rachel!
I still feel anxious and tense tonight but I'm planning to go look for a job tomorrow before the weather gets bad again.
Happy retirement!
Enjoy it!
MsPurrl said:Usually at this time on a Sunday night, I am all tense and stressed because of going back to work on Monday. But I early-retired from the university last week, and I never have to go there again--and I am so rested and relaxed!
sending you buckets and buckets of 
and 
~ enjoy beautiful lady 
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It's scary when it's so close to home isn't?
I remember someone from my high school dying just after we graduated. We didn't really know each other, but you feel almost invinceable at that age.
Usually at this time on a Sunday night, I am all tense and stressed because of going back to work on Monday. But I early-retired from the university last week, and I never have to go there again--and I am so rested and relaxed!
on graduation night? ouch, that's awful.
so far i can think of two people i know around my age that have died. strangely though i think they both happened before i was 18 (one classmate committed suicide when he was 14, and a former coworker died in a car crash, i think it was). like een said it just makes you appreciative, or it makes me anyway.
Even though he wasn't a close friend, it was really one of those surreal moments that hit you hard. He was really awesome, the class clown, but so smart and funny, so much ahead of him. It had been 10 years since we graduated. The fact that he'd missed out on his life for nothing was just devastating.
Sorry to hear that coolian. I know how you feel and it can be very sad. I had a similar thing happen years ago but I never forget it and still think about it often. When I was in my late twenties and had my first kid I decided to sell Avon for a while to pick up a little extra money. I started visiting houses in the neighborhood I grew up in and one day I was in the living room of a lady I'd never met and there was a senior photo of a guy I went to school with. He was a great guy, so funny, and just everyone liked him. I was so excited to see it and said oh my gosh are you his mom?! She said yes and asked how I knew him. I was anxious to hear what he'd been doing since we graduated. And then she told me he was killed on graduation night by a drunk driver. Definitely one of those moments in life that hits you hard.
And especially on grad night. How tragic. 
i didn't know the guy very well so it's not like i wanted to go, but he had a lot of friends and it's just...ugh. she was a major bitch so it wasn't a huge surprise (the last school she'd been at wrote an article where the first letter of each paragraph was basically a dig at her) but still.
. . . and as for the teacher Khan . . . a few years ago a girl at the College I now work at took her own life, she was only 14 ; I don't know why and I did not know her. My daughter knew of her, and most of the girls at the College were extremely upset by the whole affair. Thankfully, the Principal at the time was much more sympathetic and encouraged the girls to mourn her loss, and also to celebrate the time they had with her; he gave them time to share their stories / memories of her and reflect . . . there was a special mass held for all the students the day before the girls funeral and on the day of the funeral, any student who wished too was allowed to attend . . . in the end nearly the whole school went and they formed a guard of honour as she was taken from the church; it was a touching moment to witness and one that the poor girls mother still holds dear to this day.
damn husband.
They say life doesn't give you more than you can handle. Well life, here is a news flash. I'VE HAD ENOUGH!
But for the moments ya don't feel that way... we got yer back.
You are stronger than you know.
