It's really weird to see these posts about Linda keep popping up and I still don't know quite how to talk about her. But she called me a couple months ago and made me promise I'd tell the truth when everyone started saying nice things. 1/?
Thank you for sharing these words about Linda. They seem to me to be raw and true, as she requested. Iโm so sorry, for both of you. She should have more life, and you should have your friend here with you for years to come.
The fact that she is dying makes me want to kick powerful things. I never spoke to her directly but I have followed her almost as long as Iโve been on the site-formerly-known-as, and I suspect kicking powerful things would be a Linda-approved outcome.
So I will tell you she wanted you to know that sometimes she was a bitch. She often felt out of place in the halls of academia and congress where she wound up giving talks and hanging out with fancy people and just wanted to be somewhere working class and messy.
This is an epic eulogy. I hope it's some kind of blessing to everyone who really knows her, that even down here a whole bunch of really awesome people know her story and will be thinking of her.
it is crushing me, the slightest of acquaintances, to be losing her this way
I cannot imagine how hard it must be for her family and close friends
the world will be the lesser without Linda