where to begin...

This last week has been quite a doozy. I've meant to write so many times, and just haven't been able to get everything into words. Just too much to really be able to think about it and sort it out in my mind.

Started off rather nicely actually. Stacy Hollister took me to the symphony last Saturday for Mozart's Requiem and it was incredible! We had so much fun and I ran into so many people I knew there, including my high school chem. teacher and his wife. It's wonderful to go to the symphony with someone who really loves it too (Stacy works for the symphony during the busy seasons and often gets free tickets which she has lately been sharing with me).

The next day I worked all day, and when I checked my phone around 5 in the afternoon, realized I had a line of texts and voicemails from the FK girls saying to call as soon as possible, that it was an emergency. Turns out that at 3 am on Valentine's Day, Jacoby (one of my coworkers) was killed in a car accident. They'd been drinking and were racing their cars and she was slammed into a tree at a high rate of speed. It as horrible. They also found Meth. in the girl who was driving's purse and all three of the survivers are getting charged with vehicular homicide. Jacoby was the oldest and she was only 19. All of their lives were ruined that morning. Much to say that set the tone for most of my week.

We started the next day with a Krem news reporter-he was very nice about it, but lets be honest, that was one of the last things we needed, a girl with a resume who heard we might be hiring now-baaaaaaad timing girl, and a nasty lady who lived by the accident and came in scooping for gossip by asking us rather blatently, "So, how'd you know the dead girl?" I wanted to just kick her out of the store. How rude can you possibly be?

Everyone at the bagelshop was great though, offered to take my shifts so I could pick up extra at FK, even offered to work for Deena a little bit if she needed an extra hand to get through. I think it helped a lot that all the FK girls were going through it together. We even went to the funeral as a large group and all say together for moral support through the whole memorial. Deena gave us all custom made necklaces in the style that Jacoby had last been admiring and were talking about getting them engraved with her name.

Morgan and I went out for dinner halfway through the week, partially cause we hadn't done that in awhile and partially because I couldn't go sit at home alone yet, and we had a blast. She'd never seen the Davenport so we wandered around and then got drinks in the Peacock Lounge before heading to the Steamplant Grill for an early dinner. We ended up ordering the exact same thing and it was delicious. Another night Jenn came by and we made mac n' cheese and watched the whole season of GLEE. Heather came by the bagelshop the day after too and it was really good to see her after all that. I really love my friends sometimes. They always seem to know what I need. It's always nice to know I have people I can call when I need them.

Last night I went to the symphony again with my roommate Jen, and Laura from the bagelshop. They were doing the Wizard of Oz and dropped a screen about the orchestra and played the movie while they performed the soundtrack with it. It was incredible and we had so much fun. I hadn't realized how much of it's music had been taken from other works though. Four or five times I recognised songs from Beethoven and other more classical composers tucked within the music. We also quoted Wicked regularly and interjected it within the movie which made it even better. Next week is Mother Russia and they will be playing music by Rachmoninov who is one of my favorite piano composers. Well, except for Debussy that is.

All in all, it was an emotional roller coster of a week. Reinforced to me that you have to love what your doing, and love the people around you while you can. So to all my friends, I love you all, and thanks for being you.