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Here is a question for my flist: how would one go about finding out if a particular person has died recently?

The person in question is a friend of my mom's. According to her, she lost touch with him about a month ago, when his phone got shut off, but for a few months prior to that he had been kind of a mess - in and out of hospitals, jail, and rehab at various times, sleeping in his studio, no longer making any money because he got kicked out of his gallery (he's a jeweler, quite a good one) - basically just going to pieces, between the alcoholism and the long-term mental problems from his tour in Vietnam. She started worrying that something might have happened to him when his phone went from shut off but still assigned to him to disconnected, and when he didn't call her on her birthday.

There wouldn't be an obituary, because he doesn't have anyone who would write one or pay for one. He has a sister, but they are estranged and my mom doesn't know how to get hold of her - she probably is using one of her husbands' names, and if not, she's a Garcia, so we can't just look her up in the phonebook. So now I'm wondering if there would be some record of him somewhere - if the police would have something, or some department of records, something like that? Is there any way to find this out without actually knowing what happened to him and when?
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Okay, so I was sitting here doing...mostly nothing, actually, and I started thinking - why do I even have a livejournal? I've had it for at least 6 months and I've NEVER posted in it. Because I fail at life. Or at least at journaling. I think I originally got it so I could read lemons, when the need arose, which is such a good reason, and for the most part, whenever I feel the need to rant, I've been using/abusing the Notes application on Facebook. But today I am bored, and I figured, I should actually use this fucking thing. Yeah. So.

Roy and I went  to the high school today to see Ms Davey and Ms Shimada. Why is it that the really easy things always end up becoming epically hard? The secretary at the front desk was an utter and absolute bitch - not only would se not let us in, but she REFUSED to call Ms Shimada so that she could confirm she was expecting us, which she was, since the same bitch told us last week we couldn't visit without an appointment with a teacher. So we left, went back to Roy's house, and spent a desperate half-hour calling Ms Shimada, Ms Salgado, Ms Davey, and Al, all to no effect whatsoever. Finally we gave up, went back to the high school, and tried to sneak in the back. However, we are totally wimps, and chickened out after like 5 seconds. We have this bizarre apprehension about being arrested and going to jail. However, after that, we went back and gave the secretary uke eyes until she finally gave up and agreed to call Ms Shimada, who of course said she was expecting us, so we did get in in the end.

Getting to see all our old teachers was a lot of fun, really. Ms Salgado was so happy to see us - I love how excited and upbeat she is just all the time. And then Ms Shimada dragged us in front of her class and made us say something about the college application process and stuff - it was hysterical, me and Roy trying to give these kids all this sage advice while we were cracking jokes and making fun of each other, and basically our advice boiled down to "Don't procrastinate (Ms Shimada reeeeeeally started laughing when I said that - wonder why?), take a lot of AP classes, and expect to go clinically insane." Oh yeah. We're helpful. And then Ms Davey did the same thing. Her class was huuuuuge, and it was adorable, they all looked so terrified and confused. We weren't quite that /hopeless/, I don't think - most of them haven't even taken AP before! But still, we gave them some exceedingly silly advice, and then we stayed to chat to Ms Davey, which was a lot of fun. She thought my SLE program sounded AWESOME (which it is), and she seems to think Roy is going to have some kind of uber-meltdown very quickly (which she is). 

And to top it all off, we were stalked by a Crystal Springs truck. Really. It was strange. It was parked in front of Roy's driveway when we got to her house, and then it was turning down a side street when we went back to the high school, and it was going the opposite way on Broadway when we /left/ the high school, and Roy said she saw it again leaving my apartment. Bottled water stalking aside, though, it was a good morning.

We (meaning the four of us and the various people in our heads, I guess), need to start a list of burning questions of life. We really do. It can be a complement to the Giant Master Killer Quote List. We already have several prospective entries. Among them are: 

1) If you had sex with Jesus, would it be really really good (because he has amazing godly sexual prowess) or really really bad (because he's too nice and perfect to do anything really kinky or fun?)

2) If Sephiroth had sex with one of his clones, which Sephiroth would be top? and additionally, can you even call clonesex sex, or just very complicated masturbation?

3) Is having sex with a vampire necrophilia?

4) Where do Turks go when they die?

5) and of course, if two girls hit on each other while cosplaying as two guys, is that considered yaoi or yuri?

Yeah. Definitely need a list.


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