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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. |
Thursday, June 24, 1999
One year ago: Designing
Two years ago: Quick, Strange Moment of Meeting
After I got home from work, and read email and journals, and prepared some very self-indulgent food (curried shrimp dip, contains Major Grey's Chutney, yum!), I decided to call Jack, down in Denver. I didn't expect him to answer, though! I was just checking to see if his cell phone roamed that far, but I didn't think it really would. So I was surprised when he answered.
He was really feeling down, understandably so. Now that his fifteen-year-old daughter is found, they are back to the impasse they were at before. He's frustrated that the laws, created to protect children, remove most his power to actually do anything to change the situation. His situation is made more complicated because the state agencies that might help organize things by the county you live in. He's now living in a different county than his daughter, and doesn't have a permanent address there yet! If he brings her back to this state, she may well just run away again.
So after we hung up, I cheered myself up a bit by watching Seinfeld, then went dancing. I finally succeeded in my quest to meet up with some of the Microsoft summer interns. I knew they were going to the Russian Center every week, but I hadn't been able to find them before. Some were beginners, and some had some experience, but in a very different sort of swing dancing than I am familiar with. I regard it as a challenge to follow an unfamiliar lead, so it's fun to try these different styles.
It was very humid and somewhat warm inside the hall, so I ended up sitting out about every other dance. Jen and Chris of Hep Cat productions, who run these Thursday night dances, will be taking off on Saturday for a seven-week trip! They are going to Boston for the Beantown swing camp, then some east coast travel, then to Sweden for the Herrang swing camp, the biggest and most prestigious of them all! So there will be other instructors in their classes, for the first time in a year and half!
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