I understand people's stress over the horrific events of the 11th and how it brings us to arguing over what are basically pretty petty things. I just hung up the phone talking to my ex who wanted me to help him write his frigging resume. I am so fed up with helping him write his resume, or his covering letter, and I told him if he wanted to come over on the weekend and use the computer to do it, that's fine with me, but I didn't want to be here hanging around. Things turned to yelling and I hung up on him and now the phone is off the hook. I don't want to talk to him. Some of this surely relates to the stress of the recent and ongoing tragedy in the U.S. Some of it is just him being a pain in the ass and me being bitchy about it. Things I noticed today... Planes in the sky again. An Air Canada stewardess walking up Yonge Street with her bags on one of those wheeled things - probably coming home from a trip, or maybe headed out on one. I was tempted to stop her and talk to her or hug her, or shake her hand or something, and tell her she'd be all right, but I stopped myself - she probably would have thought I was nuts. An American flag on someone's front lawn. Lineups of people at the American Consulate (I guess I called it Embassy the other day, but I suppose if it's not in a country's capitol city, it's actually a consulate) probably going in to sign books of condolence. Flowers piled up outside - it made me glad to see my fellow Canadians offering their support like that. A memo from the head civil servant here in the Ontario gov't where I work to all employees thanking those who had helped out with emergency preparedness here; and giving them phone numbers, websites and so on for the Red Cross, Canadian Blood Services and others, so people could help our neighbours in whatever way we can. Oh these times, these times. Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca
