more depressing news in eileen's world.
1) two more people are leaving my company. but we also hired one guy this week too.

2) my mom's med school has a reunion every year and the first time we went, it was in chicago and i was about 14 years old. my sister and i thought we'd be bored, but it ended up being an awesome trip... we hung out with all my mom's classmates kids and wandered around chicago together. one girl, karen, ended up later going to BU with my sister. while they weren't close friends, they became acquaintances. last night we found out she was killed in a car accident this past june. here's another link too.

death has become a very real entity for me this year. so many people -- relatives, acquaintances, and even colleagues, have either faced death head-on through some illness or have succumb to it. it really puts life in perspective and it forces me to think about it a lot more often then i ever did before...

... i should stop now. i'm really long overdue for some lighthearted blogs. ok, i won't blog again til its something worth smiling about.