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elspethdixon) wrote2007-03-09 04:00 am
elspethdixon) wrote2007-03-09 04:00 am
Have partially recovered from grief-stricken trauma, still avoiding rest of internet.
I got no Freedman's Bank research done today, but I needed today to heal/recover from yesterday.
I'm really glad that I'd already signed up for the campus blood drive today and signed up to write the WWII propaganda paper and lead the discussion in class today. Donating blood felt like just the right way to honor Steve's memory, and choosing the comics covers and ads to print out for class and baking a red velvet cake (presenters have to bring food) and icing it to look like Cap's shield were, well, kind of my own personal wake. (I totally listened to appropriate music selections and everything).
What's kind of ironic is that I'd already planned to bake said cake weeks ago, when I signed up for the presentation slot. I just hadn't intended it to be a memorial.
No one else in my class recognized the shield cake, though they got that it was patriotic, at least, but baking it and decorating it and serving it fulfilled some kind of weird need anyway.
I'm really glad that I'd already signed up for the campus blood drive today and signed up to write the WWII propaganda paper and lead the discussion in class today. Donating blood felt like just the right way to honor Steve's memory, and choosing the comics covers and ads to print out for class and baking a red velvet cake (presenters have to bring food) and icing it to look like Cap's shield were, well, kind of my own personal wake. (I totally listened to appropriate music selections and everything).
What's kind of ironic is that I'd already planned to bake said cake weeks ago, when I signed up for the presentation slot. I just hadn't intended it to be a memorial.
No one else in my class recognized the shield cake, though they got that it was patriotic, at least, but baking it and decorating it and serving it fulfilled some kind of weird need anyway.