Winter Thoughts

[intertext]

Walking to work this morning, and noticing the autumn leaves, thinking that one serious winter gale and they'll all be gone...

Worrying about friends. One I feel is drifting away, stretched almost to the limit. All I can do is keep making rather footling offers of help, of rides in the car... stupid, useless, politely refused. But what else can I do? I have nothing else to give except care and thoughts, but this friend is intensely private, self-sufficient.

Then, there are my old friends, who are now facing the death of a son. Unimaginable.

Marking. Dear student: if you think that uploading a file with the name "send that shit" is in any way appropriate, I have news for you. No love, ... me.

Taking the dogs for a walk this afternoon in almost-darkness. Realizing that winter is really almost here




nablopomo #2

Comments

Re: Communication Fail?

[intertext.livejournal.com]

oh, no - no communication fail. I didn't want to give the impression that I was eliciting sympathy, just that I was feeling helpless in the face of a friend's difficulties and inadequate in how I was expressing it.

I think we were talking about the same thing, probably ;-)

Re: Communication Fail?

[superfoo.livejournal.com]

Hahah I think we were, too.