Yesterday, around 3:30pm California time my office mate muttered something I thought was a dark joke.

She said “Heath Ledger died.”

I heard her, but it took me about 45 seconds before I registered what she had said. I looked over my shoulder disbelievingly and said “What?”

And she said, “I don’t know – I just got an IM”

So I googled it and found out that he had been found dead in NY just 3 hours before.

I’m quite sad, because he was a young actor of whom I was actually very proud.

I wish peace to him and his family.