Wandering Aimlessly

This whole thing with the tsunami makes me so, so sad. Over 160,000 dead. Go here to donate to the relief fund. And then refresh the page a few times. It's heartening.

One of my coworkers is in Bangladesh. She went home for three weeks. I don't believe she was planning to be in a coastal area of the country, but you never know. There's no way to get in contact with her, as her whole family is there with her and I don't believe telephone communication is plausible at the moment. I'm worried sick.

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It's funny how a song can bring back such vivid memories, so much so that you can just about capture the feeling of being back wherever it was you attach that song to. "Hero" by Enrique Iglasias is on the radio. That song came out during the 2001/2002 school year, which happened to be the Year of Watching MTV. I was immediately transported back to 711 Elm and reminded of afternoons doing homework in my bedroom or cold, dark mornings working out downstairs in front of the TV with Aarti and Shelley. There are a handful of songs that take me to that one year, but "Hero" is one I'd just about forgotten about until just now, with that raspy whispered, "won't you be my hero?"

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In other news, the job situation SUCKS with big, huge capital letters. Too much drama, and NOT what I needed right now.