Remembering Jay

[kate_schaefer]

You know where I live sometimes? I live in databases. It was my job, when I had a job, and it's what I do as a volunteer. Today I ticked a box in a database to mark Jay Lake as deceased, and it hit me, as it hadn't really hit me until now, that Jay is really dead. It's not that I hadn't known it before, and it's not that I hadn't been sad about it

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[carl_allery]

I never officially met Jay - or wait, I think I was kind of introduced-in-passing by someone who probably assumed we knew each other, because Jay knew most people and most people knew Jay. I was aware of him at cons and frequently in the same area of space, but never for long enough or close enough to have an actual conversation. But he was a consistent presence in my awareness and I was awed by his productivity that year he spent turning out stories and generally impressed by his positivity and drive. I'm sorry for so many of my friends who've lost a good friend.