a crazy week

i haven't been blogging much. i've had too much going on in my life to worry about something like blogging.


thanksgiving night, our water heater broke, setting off an alarm in the middle of the night and leaving us without hot water for a couple of days.


later that weekend, from sunday to monday, it snowed. it doesn't snow in seattle. seattle doesn't know how to handle snow. a mere few inches of snow paralyzed the city. my usual 45 minute drive home from school took me six hours on monday night. six hours. a week later, i still can't believe it.


in between those two things, my grandmother passed away. she's been sick, and we all knew it was coming, but even that never makes death easy.


of course, my passport had expired. i desperately wanted to be there for the memorial service, so i had my passport expedited so Jak and i could go to panama on tuesday to be there for the service on thursday night.


i picked up my passport tuesday morning, we got on the plane that night, and arrived in panama on wednesday afternoon. we were only there for a few days, before spending all day saturday traveling back here to seattle.


it was a hectic week or so, to say the least.


now, as i sit here procrastinating on my studies, i find i have so much more to say, about my grandmother, about our relationship, about life and death, about grief. . . all while knowing that i have many pages to read and several papers to write before my semester ends in a week and half.


so instead of lengthening this post, i'll keep those thoughts for another time.