I'm going to be "bleah" for a minute here, so if you'd like to skip ahead to the video, feel free.
Had a really weird day. First of all, last weekend, our neighbors' son drowned at Flaming Gorge Reservoir and that's been tough on all involved. Today, I found out when and where the funeral's going to be. I fully plan on attending because that's the best way for me to deal with the grief. But I'm always apprehensive at funerals. This one's going to be especially rough because I went to high school with this kid and he graduated with my sister and his parents live down the road from my parents. I mean, I'm solid in the knowledge of where he is right now (and I know his family is too) and that's a comfort. I'm sure that he's having a great time meeting up with his grandparents and other assorted relatives and it's just us who are still here being weepy and teary-eyed about it. It's natural to grieve, of course, and I would be the last to diminish anyone's feelings of loss. But I don't deny that I know he's in a place that's a million times better than this life.
So - there's that I'm dealing with. Plus, just the regular crap that gets piled on in the course of normal life. The study abroad office decided to be punks and bug us all about getting our paperwork in. This is the same paperwork we had to wait for three months to get just because some director or ombudsman or some other made-up academic pencil-pusher couldn't be bothered to send to us until three or four days ago. But now that we have it, they can ride our butts and carp that we don't have our stuff in (which requires two academic references, two passport-sized photograph, a notarized signature and a fecal sample from our firstborn. Okay - maybe not that last one). Well, I'm sorry, but you're just going to have to wait. My life wasn't going to wait for you to get on the ball.
Add to the fact that one of the supervisors at the library I subbed at today was a total pain-in-the-neck. She kept giving me the stink-eye when I would help a patron at her workstation and check in books where she thought I wasn't supposed to be. I think she was worried I was after her job or something. Truth is, I'm not after a full-time library clerk position. I want a post as an actual librarian - at the information desk. With a Master's degree and potential to become a manager. Worry not my sweet little part-time retiree - your pension is safe and secure *pat, pat*
Oy - if you read all that whining, good for you. This calls for something that is complete light and fluffy and just a bundle of feel-good-ness. And since I had Owl City's "Galaxies" stuck in my head all day - and because Doctor Who just automatically puts me in a good mood - I decided to search for a DW video with that song. And this one is one of the best. Makes me wish I was better at vidding - alas, I'm too cheap to spring for the really good video-making software. So, I will just enjoy some of the stuff other people come up with.
Enough yakking - watch the video!
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