Sheltering in Place

[Drunk Monk]

can i get off this ride now? i wanna get off. 

so i spent like 4 hours on the phone to 3 people, a job feeler, a friend wanting to introduce me to someone local who probably doesn't have any job, and tara. actually i talked to gigi too but not for that long. i didn't get that much work done - i had hoped to fix my wordpress site, which i messed up last night but never got there and i didn't clean the bit of my room that i planned to clean, just vacuumed up some of this crazy daddy long leg burst we got at the bungalow over the last few days. i walked down to the beach alone to see the sunset. it was nice beautiful, that iridescent surf receding, and for a moment, there was a glimmer of peace. 

then my phone pinged. a friend texted to tell me a mutual friend died. karla was an old deadhead rock med friend, someone i've known for maybe 30 years. i can't remember the last time i saw her - outside lands maybe? we'd cross paths at the bigger shows and keep in touch over facebook. her husband passed to cancer last year, and she was having a rough go alone. i don't know the cause yet. so much for that glimmer of peace...

i'm really looking forward to when there's no need to post on this thread anymore.