I got in touch with an old friend and she seems to be doing alright. Hmmm...Will is going to be picking me up the Sunday after my birthday to take me to Florida so I can spend a week there. If it turns out positively, I might get a temporary job down there until I can come back and get my job again with the state and continue bitching about not having any money to spend whatsoever. That's fine, though. My short vacation will be well spent with my friends and boyfriend. Speaking of boyfriend, he's going to take me to Destin and let me check out some of the outlets they have there. Doesn't sound like much fun, but I like shopping and it's relaxing for me. Well, technically I window shop, but whatever.
Actually something very disturbingly interesting happened today. It turns out that one of the cemeteries off of Ann St. has some collapsing graves. Apparently, Jamey (co-worker) read about it in the newspaper and went to check it out. He told me about what he found there and today, for lunch, we dropped by the grave of James Streety (R.I.P.). The cemented top half of the grave had collapsed and there, inside the hollowness, were his skeletal remains. I'm surprised his skull wasn't crushed but his bottom vertebrae was at an angle. Maybe the man had scoliosis. I did a bit of research on him, too. Since he died in 1925, which may explain why the grave was so hollow. Perhaps his family was too poor to afford a proper coffin. I am not sure, but it was sad in a way. It was also very tempting to not move the cement pieces and see how badly damaged the skull was. I could only see a portion of the left side. I guess moving anything would have been disrespectful.
What's really disrespectful is the man who owned the land skipped town. There's no way to contact the families of the deceased. In a way, aren't they responsible for maintaining the site? However, through goodness of certain donating hearts, some of the graves can be kept up. I just worry about what's going to happen later on down the road.
I can say I was rather shocked at first when I saw the skeleton. I have never seen one before. Not a real one. Not even an animal's skeletal remains. It was creepy and fascinating all at once. I wondered just what happened to that slab to get in such condition. I guess being there for a little over 80 years might have something to do with it, or nature's elements. Well, nature's southern elements. Rain and hot weather. Who knows?
I might visit again, just to see how the progress is coming along. I want to see how the other graves are holding up. I kind of wish there was more that I could do. I don't know. *sigh* Sadness.
Anyway, when Jamey and I came back from lunch, I proceeded to look up the Capuchin Catacombs. They're in Palermo, Italy. It's extremely gruesome, but very fascinating! I would like to go there one day and see the little girl there. Her name is Rosario Lombardo and she was two when she died. The way her body has been preserved for all of these years is absolutely amazing! She's just beautiful! There's also a museum in Philadelphia I would like to see. It's the Mütter Museum. It apparently has some freakish exhibits. How exciting!
Well, that's really all for now.
Laters!
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