Today is perfectly encapsulated by an old movie title

[flexagon]

The good: tonight was the final Dale Carnegie class... yeah, graduation. I brought HLM. I also spent the day in a panic over making the poster for it, which I hadn't procured the right stencils for yesterday and had to run back to Pearl for, and took the afternoon off to make, and then it ended up being really simple and I could have saved at least $20 on materials if I'd known what I was going to do in the first place. But my speech about the class and my vision must have gone okay, because I won another book for it. That was a nice upbeat way to end the whole thing. :)

The bad: I came home to a very worrisome letter from kfb's mother.

Dear soyfetus,

I need your help. kfb is in trouble. He has to leave his apartment by the 18th. His land lady called yesterday. He does not know she called us. She said that he has been unable to find work, and she has rented his apartment to someone else.

We do not know if he has the means to even arrange to move his stuff, and we assume he has no where to go. We feel helpless. We would like to help if we can. His Dad would be willing to fly up there and help him move his stuff, or make some kind of arrangements. We have no way to reach him. We are suspicious that he will not call us to ask for help.

Would you go to see him, please. Tell him I emailed you, his landlady called us, and please call home collect. We will help in any way we can.

soyfetus, if you want to talk about this before you try to see him, please call me collect at xxx-xxx-xxxx. Or if you go see him, please call me afterward.

I'm sorry to ask this of you. you are my only contact and we are worried sick.



Boyohboy... this stirs up all KINDS of fun emotions (or it would if I weren't somewhat used to feeling helpless. Mostly I feel numb). His dad is flying out on Thursday, so my only real job is to try to tell him that, by email or in person, before his dad actually arrives. I'll be tryin'.

The ugly: one of the 3 hours I spent at work today was spent listening to the CEO talking about company restructuring. Very little changed, really... I did kinda get a promotion (really, my rank split and I fell into the upper half of the split) but one of the things I was most hoping would happen, didn't. Oh well, head back down, keep focusing on how happy I truly am to be back in Java world.

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Ugh

[hiddenbear.livejournal.com]

As good as the good sounds (congrats!), the bad and the ugly seem to outweigh it. I feel bad for kfb's mom - she seems so helpless in this all. I can hear the desperation in her words. Still, it sucks that you are getting pulled back in.

Yuck...

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

That really sucks about kfb. :( I know you'll do whatever you can to help, and that's already enough to consider a mitzvah :)

Also, congrats on the sort-of promotion! Are you like sub-ceo or owner or what? :-D Congrats on winning the DC book too...onward and upward chica!

Re: Yuck...

[flexagon]

Mmmmph. I'm a Software Engineer II. It'll do for now. :)

I had to look up mitzvah--a charitable (or honorable or something) act. Cool word, I didn't know it existed without "bar" or "bat" in front of it!

well, I did my duty...

[flexagon]

I went on my lunch hour and rang SOS on his doorbell and he came down and I told him everything she asked. It was awkward, which I could have probably alleviated but didn't choose to--I'm still not feeling especially close to him, and I was doing it as a favor to his parents, and there was no particular need to hide that. But it was a kindness to his mother and she's been nothing but kind to me, so there it is.

Sounds like we'll probably have dinner with him and his dad on Friday or Saturday. Hmmm, should be interesting. It's nice to know I have a channel open to his parents, so I will find out what happens with the eviction etc... mmmyup, that's much better than not knowing.

Bleah to this and to drama in general, I say.