Whataweek

This has been one of the weirdest, consistently awful weeks for so many people I've ever experienced. A short list:

• A friend's family in a car crash with one fatality and one severe injury. This in turn has lead to a family implosion (unfortunately, not all that unusual in circumstances like this)
• A favorite coworker giving notice of departure; this person also has some medical stuff going on related to some prescription drugs which (IMHO) no doctor in his right mind should have prescribed for this person
• Another favorite coworker revealing that his wife was ready to leave him last week (but now, somehow, has done a 180 and doesn't want to go...leaving him saying "what's up with women??")
• Another coworker who has literally lost a pet somewhere in her house; it's been missing for a week and she can't find the body (obviously, a small animal)
• Miss W diagnosed with diverticulitis and walking bent over like a hunchback yesterday because she felt that she couldn't miss this week's festivities
• Another reference librarian with laryngitis and looking frankly miserable
• Fecking subcommittee meetings and a killer headache for me; and a week of nearly total non-productivity
• A friend falling, repeatedly, on ice and just generally having a crap couple of days
• Sparky's got a cold
• Cinnamon is not dire, but also not particularly healthy either
• Tornadoes in New Orleans??

Some good things:

• Survivor starts again this week
• Beast has had a good week of travel
• My head doesn't hurt as much
• I work Saturday, and that usually means I'll get some actual work done then (in theory)
• I think everyone in my family is relatively (ha ha) healthy
• Papa Murphy's pizza is a working parent's dream

I just can't figure out if this balance sheet is only my perception or if it's the reality of a really lousy week for a great chunk of the world.