not even thirty minutes after the last time i posted one of my dear friends, who is also a colleague called to tell me her father was in an airplance crash and did not survive. she informed me that she would not be at work for at least a week. as her direct supervisor, it fell into my realm to relay the news to not only our office, but also to our project teams. i had to recount the story about a dozen times and lost my composure about half of those times. that was on a monday. the following monday i was informed by a client that one my our engineering consultants had been in a motorcycle accident and suffered some head trauma and was partially paralyzed, but that the doctors were sure it would only be temporary. by temporary they mean six or so months. that was two mondays in a row i had to deliver bad news to many different groups of people, and being superstitious, i was determined not to let the third monday be a charm [these things always happen in threes] so i packed up and went to chicago. i stayed over the monday and returned to work on tuesday. when i got back to the office on tuesday, i had a call from my boss. his father had passed away and he would be out for at least a week. so much for unlucky mondays... in the eight days since then another colleague lost his grandfather and my brother-in-law lost his grandmother.
alright, this is getting ridiculous and i'm beginning to feel like the dark angel. enough is enough. i have officially declared an end to all bad news. no more! from now on, i only want to hear/ bear good news. ya' hear me? now, who wants to go first?
in the background::donna summer & barbra streisand:enough is enough
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