bad things come in threes (or more)

Blogger won't publish the posts I painstakingly write these days. Hopefully this one makes it...

Bad things that have occurred in the past 12 hours:

• I found out my sister suffered a minor concussion this past weekend and is having continuous headaches as a result.
• A friend from high school was killed in a car accident
• Joelle, who had surgery for another abscess on Friday, stopped eating this morning and is acting very strangely

I don't feel much like celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow.