Current mood:

heavy-hearted

I noticed
You know how you have a bad day, and someone tries to cheer you up by saying, "Well at least no one died"? Yeah......

She was a resident in one of my buildings; I knew her in name only. An out-of-state student. I feel terrible for her parents; they'll be coming in this weekend to get her things. I'm glad I won't have to be there. I didn't have the heart to cross her off my rosters before I left today.

It was quite a circus there for a while. About 10-15 firemen and paramedics, my CC, both ACCs, the CCs from the buildings nearest by, the Assistant Director, 2 Associate Directors, the Executive Director, and one or two people whose faces were unfamiliar to me. They asked me to cover the desk while they had a meeting with all of the RAs from the building. It was weird to see how normally everything else went on with the people who didn't know - people coming in to eat lunch or buy something at the market, students talking and joking around with their friends, incoming students with their parents stopping by the desk to ask for tours. It feels like everything should have stopped, at least for a moment. But it didn't - time rolled right past her death as if it had never happened, as if it didn't even care enough to notice, the bastard.