blown away

My department hires about a half dozen people to help us out on a temporary basis. They were hired in Nov and will be with us until April.

One of them passed away over the weekend. Talk about blown away. He was just here last Thursday. He actually passed last Fri in the back of an ambulance. It is believed he had bacterial menangitis. There has been a huge fervor over the whole thing. Between the shock of him passing (at age 42) and the health risk of a contagious illness and tax season smacking us square in the face it has been a weirder than weird day.

I am extremely sad. The guy was one of my buddies. He worked with us last year too and had the same late night shift as me. We were scheduled to work the late nights together again this year. I was also his mentor. It just seems so sad and senseless.