I will allow you to envy me, in that I got to write a paper on Lewis’ Four Loves in the Iliad.

Thank you! And yes, I do have a really great sister! Actually three. 🙂

Is the class on C.S. Lewis particularly? I’d love to do a class on CS Lewis, I just love his writing to pieces. I was always sad that I didn’t have a chance to read and discuss any of CS Lewis’s books when I was in college.

Yep, it’s true. In my case, I tend to think about the moment of impact and how I should react in that moment, and I don’t think at all about the long-term day-to-day facts of grieving.

Oh, I agree with you, absolutely. I think it would be a good mental exercise (for me, anyway) to imagine handling loss. I do better with things when I have imagined them a lot of times beforehand, even if my imagination got a lot of things wrong. But whenever I try that as an exercise, I start crying AND I feel like I’m jinxing whichever of my family members I’m imagining losing. So…unsuccessful so far.

Really? Didion’s the less draining one? I did not find that. I was far more exhausted reading Didion’s book, especially after I learned from the internets that her daughter died too. If nothing else it was longer. But besides that I kept imagining how terrible it would be to be grieving one loss while contemplating the possibility of another. While hanging out at the hospital all the time. Awful, awful, awful.

Oh, wow, I don’t know that I’d have been able to read it right after suffering a loss. It was hard enough to read as it was (the Lewis too), but I think it would have been unbearable if I were grieving myself.

Me too!

It was disappointing. But I think I will fare better once the internship starts, and I have things to do with my day other than lie around my apartment zipping through all my books at once. Plus I am still hopeful that the internship people will let me check out books from the university library. I would go mad with joy if that were to happen.

I have got me to a library. Books are all around me! But I feel like I checked out all the good books in the whole library on the first trip and now have nothing left to check out.

We don’t have Shreddies. But if we did I wouldn’t know about it. I have been faithful to Life Cereal since I was six years old, and I do not see any indication that that is going to change any time soon. :p