Well, as usual, there was a reason for my odd day yesterday. This morning I had a dream that my mom was trying to call me. When I checked my email this morning, I had an email from her saying, “Call me as soon as you get up. Urgent!” I called her and she said the most unexpected thing—that my grandma had died. I’m okay about it and everything. She had Alzheimer’s and she passed away in her sleep. It’s more of a blessing than anything. It’s odd because I’m writing the eulogy, and all the memories with her are so fresh because I had this desire to go through her house last weekend when I was home. I looked at books she read to us and found things we had made for her when we were little. Even more strange than that is I’m using the conversation with the old man yesterday in my eulogy. That story is still surreal to me. He never looked at me the entire time we were talking, and the next morning after talking to him, my grandma dies. Maybe I’ve been watching too much Joan of Arcadia, but you must admit it’s an odd coincidence.

My aunt tends to have some psychic tendencies, as do I. When my grandpa died about 5 years ago, I was sitting in lab in HS and for some reason I was just compelled to stare at the clock at 3:10 pm. I just got a weird feeling. Well, when I got home, my parents & grandma were just coming home from the hospital, so I said, he died, didn’t he? They said “yes,” and I asked, was it about 3:10? They said, “yes, almost exactly.” Now, my grandma dies and my aunt happens to clock out at exactly 3:10 am last night, which happens to be the time they think my grandma passed away. It’s sort of strange, but soothing. For me, it’s like knowing someone died before you actually know and it gives some peace, so when I actually hear it, it’s not that bad.

I knew there was something weird about yesterday, but I never really guessed it’d be for all this. Anyway, I decided to listen to the Beta Band this morning, and just turned shuffle off. It worked out that these bands are in order in my full playlist Beta Band, Coldplay, Doves, Elbow, Eskobar, Muse, Ours, Pernice Brothers, and Radiohead. It’s a perfect evolution of music and completely happened on accident. I love these bands. Well, I need to finish this speech.

Oh yeah, my grandma is getting a pink-lined coffin. There will be more pink in this funeral home than there is bullshit in the hospital project. Yeah, it was lame. Give me a break.