I'm a few days behind on this but I just found out Robert Jordan died. My reactions to this are:
Crap, I needed closure on that series.
And, with a touch more humanity:
Crap, an author I liked just died. This is a sad thing.
It's not a fitting eulogy to a guy who was by all accounts very nice but:
Crap, this sucks.
It's incredibly unfair that we don't get to be immortal.