Olive died yesterday. She was hit by a car. Karen found her on her way to the gym early in the morning. I had to go and make sure it was really Olive, because Karen wasn’t sure.

It hit me pretty hard, in ways my rational side just can’t make sense of. Olive makes me think of the daemons in Pullman’s “His Dark Materials”. Though Olive as a favourite of mine had a much more tenuous and subtle connection. Wrapping her up in a towel and putting her in the trunk of my car, I felt like she was long-gone, and the world a colder, lonelier place.

Sam took it pretty hard as well. Davis really doesn’t understand, and told us we should get a fish, then made up a song about a dead cat, which made us all laugh and cry at the same time.

The power came back on Saturday night. It was off for 48 hrs. I appreciate heat and light more than I did before.

We lost power at 11:00 PM Thursday night. Currently, National Grid has no prediction when it will be back on. The outage is due to a storm with high winds all over the northeast corner of Massachusetts. The first day was kind of an adventure. Now, most the way through day 3, it’s getting pretty tiresome. We’re hanging out at my mother-in-laws house in Salem today.