Life altering moments

Ok, maybe not life altering, but just a few things that have happened in the last couple days that have "given pause" on (in?) my life. If that is even the right expression. Which reminds me of the question that I saw on this province-wide online reference service the other day where the person asked "I know that the new OJ Simpson book If I Did It is morally suspect, but is it grammatically suspect as well? Should it be "If I had done it", instead of "If I did it?" The librarian who answered the question went on to cite a whole bunch of OED-type sources saying that yes, the actual title was correct, but she wouldn't recommend reading the book. But back to those moments:

1. Just finding out that my super cool archivist friend from library school got a job at Yale and she and her boyfriend - my friend, despite the fact tht he's American (but he's from Washington and has been living here for the last few years, so essentially he's an honourary Canadian) - will be moving to Connecticut next year. I am very happy for her, sad that they are leaving Vangroover, and filled with the hope that if she can get a rocking job like that this early out of library school, maybe I can too. Or at least a job that is somewhere other than here.

2. Watching the very last show ever of 6 Feet Under, which was weird to watch because when it was over, and even though it had an overwrought schmaltzy ending where they covered 90 years in 5 minutes (and all the main characters died), it was really amazing and quite bittersweet. The show ended, I turned off the tv, and sat there for a few minutes with this dazed feeling of "I'll never have a new moment with 6 feet under", as if it were a little sister or particularly good piece of pie that I was seeing for the last time. No, I wasn't smoking pot - maybe I should have been. I've seen a lot of "final episodes" in the last couple years, but that one really took the cake.

3. Seeing this guy I used to like - note the past tense - flirt with with my new library assistant in the teen area. It's sort of funny because A) I still think he's gay even though he said he's not, B) she has a boyfriend, and C) I think he knows that I like him, but either doesn't care or is trying to make me jealous. Not that I care. I don't really think this is life altering, but I find it a little amusing, in an insulting sort of way. And any list has to have at least three things on it to be considered a list, and without this I would only have two.