Death and apathy at T minus 16 days

[flexagon]

So this girl I went to high school with apparently died of cancer on Tuesday. She was a loud & aggressive person (remember your Desiderata? a vexation to the spirit!) and a jock; my only real memory of her is from ninth grade biology class, when they made us all prick our fingers for a drop of blood, and she was trying to gross people out with the blood she could squeeze out of the three little holes in her finger. Strange to think of all that life being gone, I suppose, but I'm not sure about actually being sad. The chat board on my high school class's website has informed me that she was sweet, smiley and a good childhood friend of E, none of which I ever would have guessed and some of which I still don't really believe. But why bother telling me, now that she's gone anyway?

So, another death, another apathetic response. I have a pattern of this. A topic for another post, perhaps.