{"id":14006,"date":"2012-03-07T08:14:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T16:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2012\/03\/07\/14006.html"},"modified":"2012-03-07T08:14:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T16:14:10","slug":"seven-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2012\/03\/07\/seven-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It seems hard to believe that it's been seven years since my father was killed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Yes, I know the right-side navbar on that page is giving an error. I'll deal with it some other day.)<\/p>\n

Some years I'm okay, some years I'm not. This year there's been so much other turmoil going on that I don't know how much of my emotional state to attribute to what, but I suspect the anniversary has been a significant factor in my having had a couple of meltdowns and GCFs (General Coping Failures) in recent weeks, and intermittent bursts of sadness yesterday.<\/p>\n

My plan for today is to sit at home by myself and minimize interaction with people. I may take the day off from day job, or I may try to get some work done from home. (Thanks to my manager for special dispensation for working from home.) I may try to get some sleep—I've been having a hard time keeping my eyes open fairly often in the past couple weeks. I may read some comfort reading (Crusie, maybe) or watch something comfortable (Gilmore Girls<\/cite>, or maybe Groundhog Day<\/cite>—been meaning to rewatch that for months, and I seem to recall it being both funny and consolatory, though I could be wrong).<\/p>\n

I will probably try to minimize my online interaction as well. Likely no Facebook or Twitter or G+, will likely not read email except important-looking magazine-related stuff (and day-job stuff if I do end up working), will probably not answer phone. Would prefer not to receive text messages unless something's urgent, 'cause those are harder to ignore.<\/p>\n

Will add submissions to database as needed, and will likely read some of them.<\/p>\n

Probably won't leave the house.<\/p>\n

Hoping that if I get some solitude and downtime, then I can start to get back to coping on Thursday. We'll see.<\/p>\n

. . . I tend to write these annual entries as if I were the only one affected by Peter's death, but of course I'm not. Sympathies to the rest of my family, and others who were close to Peter; I hope you're doing okay today.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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