*sigh*

not a good day. I somehow knew it wouldn’t be. Things were fine at first, save for the bus being a bit late, but when I was at work, about 2 hours into my shift, a couple people I knew, that I trained with, got up, signed out, went home, and were in tears as they left. I go for my lunch break and I run into Suki, who wasn’t working today, outside, who was also in my class. This is when I find out one of our fellow classmates died. He had left work on monday night and was walking with Terence (the guy who trained us), and apaprently they were goofing around and having fun, but I guess some time after they parted ways Jeff collapsed on his walk home. Suki had apparently seen the ambulance. The last I saw him was that night too, he smiled and waved at us as we drove off. He died Tuesday around noon, of a brain aneurysm.

Jeff was a good guy. A really good guy. Everyone liked him. He was shy and quiet, but if you opened up to him, he would open up to you. I sat next to him every day for almost 2 weeks, we had definitely become work friends. He was also a hell of an artist. He loved to charactures of people. He did one for Jenny, I know, I’ve seen it at her desk when I was at Stream. He was really smart, we would talk about politics, technology, science, school, old TV shows… anything you could name.

I couldn’t stay at work after that. Nor could a bunch of my other coworkers. He was 46 years old and he was only living in london working a shit job because he was taking care of his sick dad.

He will be missed. I only wish I’d been able to know him better.

Rest in peace.