Month: March 2005

Friday was the day that lasted the week. It included purchasing a burial plot for my parents, recovering the car from the movie people (they dumped it 9 blocks away with a $45 fine — boycott the movie version of RENT, folks), going to the funeral home.

Saturday was spent finding where the Kings County Morgue is to release the body to the funeral home people as well as getting appropriate clothes.

Sunday my bro came in. I bought Italian cross buns after receiving visions of baked goods, I kid you not.

Monday was when all of the final arrangements were made. It took three hours. More Italian food. Emails went to everyone.

Today was spent taking care of paperwork for my mom, and scraping up the cash for Thursday and Friday. Going to the airport to pick up my mom’s relatives.

I’m OK mostly because P– has been propping me up. Every other hour the sadness wells up and I have to force it back down before it gushes out uncontrollably. I still have to work on the eulogy tonight.

“Pop” — my father — died this morning. I got the call from my mother at about 3 am. P- drove me to the house, where half a dozen cops were present, including several Chinese cops and a Chinese sergeant, which I was surprised. Thankfully, he passed away peacefully in his sleep.

Upon leaving, P-‘s car was towed because of a film shoot. 5 hours later after frantic calling to every city hotline, we discover it is 8 blocks away.

Today I am going to make arrangements for the funeral. I have no idea how much this will cost, or whether it will be affordable, or even how it is to be done. But I have to do what I can to cherish his memory.

Tomorrow – yep, this is it. NCAA championship. Bracket time – watching the teams duke it out. Of course, Alma Mater is not in the tourney (and hasn’t in 30 years; plus, this season ended really poorly for the men’s basketball team, even if with the hope that Alma Mater will be better; it was a rebuilding year, I think; the women’s team had their own strange debacle). Let’s see who’s the Cinderella team this year. I got my brackets ready! (did not make the silly mistake of picking Stanford all the way this time).

Oh, and yeah, Happy St. Patrick’s Day.