h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

We had a death at the weekend... a close friend of the family. Tough times. Spent the whole of Saturday in a state of disbelief. The whole weekend I spent in various states of distress, anger, denial, guilt and various other emotions. The essential binary state of life and death makes it very tough to come to terms with, I find. I find my mind can't deal with it in those terms of on/off... left desperately scrambling in the states of grey inbetween.

I tried to deal with it as best I could - as did the rest of the family. Watched four episodes of the second series of 'Spaced' on Saturday while doing the ironing; while I spend Sunday busy out and about shopping. Come Monday morning, I'm still struggling and it will invariably take a long time to assimilate all these feelings and come out the other side.