15 April 2003 - 5:09 p.m.

So, I've been meaning to write for the last few days about how great and wonderful life is ... because there have been a HUGE huge huge number of great and wonderful things that have happened in the past two weeks. I feel very lucky and very happy most of the time ... but today's a really hard day to be happy.

Some of you know, a professor in the School of Music here has been missing for three weeks ... last night, they found his body in the Charles River. Not only is this terrifying and tremendously sad, it's also terrifying and tremendously sad to see the school falling down around us. We're all just sort of stunned ... and everything's kind of grinding to a stop. I went on a mail run for work .. and walked by the building ... I saw several professors and students crying. These stupid news people were bustling around trying to get people to talk to them. It's terrifying and heartwrenching to see these people so absolutely heartbroken. No one is really saying much besides, "it's so sad ... " and the truth is there's not much more to say than that. It's just so sad ...

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