Crappy week for all...

I don't know what it is this past week and half, but seems like everyone and their grandmother is having the crappiest week in their life. Let's take stock:

I've got one friend who had to break up with a great love of their life
another whose abstract is due on sat and is still stressing about not having it done
another whose experiment is basically on the crapper b/c of malicious incompetence,
another friend who has lost a love and their car in one week
And finally we have climbing legend John Bachar with a broken neck due to a car accident.

Sh!tty.

What about me? Nothing serious in the grand scheme of things - especially relative to my friends. But this week has been a tumultuous trip down a very very fast paced river in an inner tube... bumpy, wet, exhausting and sometimes getting sucked into the currents and getting stuck in the same rough loop till it decides to spit you out. I'm feeling the need to escape and refresh my soul with something new and exciting...