Damien Dixon, 1976-2005
This really hit me hard... the CMU/APhiO people from my time period will probably care, if they don't know already. I didn't. I feel terrible. Did I really just miss this?
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luminifer randomly found out that Damien Dixon passed away in November of cancer. One of Damien's piano teachers has created a remembrance page about him. I didn't even realize he played piano so well. I don't think I ever heard him play.
Man, Damien was one of the craziest, silliest, wackiest guys I ever knew, and he was always so goofy and sweet. I knew him best when we were both active in Alpha Phi Omega; we met at the start of our sophomore year when he came to some community service project rush events. We took a few classes together (mostly I remember 18-240 (computer engineering), and intro Japanese); we were both class of '98, him in ECE and me in CS->English, so we had a few overlapping classes but not a ton. He always had such a great sense of humor and was always so ready to be kind and supportive of just about anyone, even the people he hadn't seen in forever.
I remember he sent me email a couple of years ago because he had found my DDR information page, back when I was still in Pittsburgh, and he was really into DDR too. He said we'd have to get together and play sometime at Carnival or whatnot. Searching back and rereading the email, I see the last line was "Dee...would you sing Trip Machine? :-D"
I don't think I ever saw him again after that, nor did we ever play DDR together. That sucks.
Man, he would have only turned 30 next month, too. That's so young. And rereading his last entry indfdmaestro is just so... well, it's so Damien. That is all.
I think I need to stop thinking about this, because otherwise I'm going to start crying on the outside too, which would be bad while I'm at work.
I'm really glad so many of you guys I went to college with are on LJ and I can keep in touch and know what you're up to. One day you find out suddenly that someone you really should have gotten in touch with is no longer around, and it's just a terribly sad thing.
luminifer randomly found out that Damien Dixon passed away in November of cancer. One of Damien's piano teachers has created a remembrance page about him. I didn't even realize he played piano so well. I don't think I ever heard him play.Man, Damien was one of the craziest, silliest, wackiest guys I ever knew, and he was always so goofy and sweet. I knew him best when we were both active in Alpha Phi Omega; we met at the start of our sophomore year when he came to some community service project rush events. We took a few classes together (mostly I remember 18-240 (computer engineering), and intro Japanese); we were both class of '98, him in ECE and me in CS->English, so we had a few overlapping classes but not a ton. He always had such a great sense of humor and was always so ready to be kind and supportive of just about anyone, even the people he hadn't seen in forever.
I remember he sent me email a couple of years ago because he had found my DDR information page, back when I was still in Pittsburgh, and he was really into DDR too. He said we'd have to get together and play sometime at Carnival or whatnot. Searching back and rereading the email, I see the last line was "Dee...would you sing Trip Machine? :-D"
I don't think I ever saw him again after that, nor did we ever play DDR together. That sucks.
Man, he would have only turned 30 next month, too. That's so young. And rereading his last entry in
dfdmaestro is just so... well, it's so Damien. That is all.I think I need to stop thinking about this, because otherwise I'm going to start crying on the outside too, which would be bad while I'm at work.
I'm really glad so many of you guys I went to college with are on LJ and I can keep in touch and know what you're up to. One day you find out suddenly that someone you really should have gotten in touch with is no longer around, and it's just a terribly sad thing.