In Memoriam

This has been a pretty lousy week. In fact, to paraphrase Homer Simpson, this week has sucked worse than anything that has ever sucked before in the history of things that suck. The first is tragic, the rest is trivial in comparison but factored in has made things even worse. The tragic part is truly, deeply tragic. The young man who took the full time position that I gave up last month was killed Sunday night while riding his motorcycle to work. He apparently tried to pass a car on a two-lane highway and was struck head on by an oncoming vehicle. I didn't know him outside of work but he seemed to be a really nice kid. He was only 20. When I first found out about it Wednesday when I returned to work, beside being completely shocked, I felt responsible in a way since if I hadn't quit that positon, he would not have been on the road at that time. I know that's faulty logic but I still felt guilty. The rest of the week, as I said, is trivial in comparison but it didn't help that's for sure. Yesterday I got out of class at 4pm and when I returned to my car, I found that, for the third time, someone had broken into my car. They smashed the rear passenger window. They didn't take anything because, since I learned my lesson the first time, there wasn't anything in the car to take. They were probably scared off by the car alarm, so they didn't even wind up opening the front doors (they were still locked). It was either that or they were just being mean (which is what a few people have told me since I still have my American plates). It's costing us another $300 today to get the window replaced. I've also had a bad time in one of my classes this week because one of the textbooks has been impossible to get and I had a quiz Thursday and I didn't have the material since I didn't have the book. The professor annouced in class that that was just all too bad and we'd have to make do (they apparently only ordered 40 books for a class of 100! nice) I found a copy in the US from amazon.com (they didn't even have one in amazon.ca) and they only had 2 copies in stock, so I got the next to last one. So not a lot of fun in my world this week. I'll try to entertain you again next week.