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**please excuse thebad spacebar crap. i'minthe computerlaband thiskeyboard sucks**

so yeah...my weekend was interesting
friday night: go tobyron's houseand chill. meetkrasi'sbulgarian friends from atlantaat 3:30 am
saturday: wakeup latefor open house,forgetwhere itis, getthere,find outthat wedon't haveabooth set up. feel naseaus
get home, takea napcause i'msocranky, eventually leave to gotoa realcity--winston salem. goshopping with kevin, brandon,and laura. buy new clothes,spendtoo much moola.
gotodinner, get foodpoisoning, gotoclub oddessy, dancefor 5minutes,feelsickfor 2 hours. go towaffle house--alwaysaninteresting experience. finally gethome,crash.
sunday: drivehomewith brandon and kevin. get pulled over. geta ticket.
gethome, goto work late, workfor 5 hours.
gethome, takea nap.
watchthesunday night sexshow.
use my abroller.
fall................roommate, 2RAs, 2 asu police officers, 2 paramedics, 2callsto mom anddad (anda partridge in apear tree).
monday: oneclass, infrimary, nap,food,nap, food, homework, here...


yes, it's interestingand exciting being lindsay johnson :-)

 
so yeah. today is one year later.



12:58pm
So Yeah...
Tuesday, September 11, 2001, 9:25am, Sandford Hall room 507, Appalachian State University
--...they think it was a terrorist attack...
--Sarah, what are you saying about terrorists?
--Two planes just crashed into the World Trade Center. There's a huge hole like 20 stories tall.
--Oh my gosh!
--...

9:35am
--Students, the world has changed as we know it. The World Trade Center, the Pentagon...We will probably bomb someone before the day is over. Your generation has not yet lived through a major war, this might be it. ...

The Plemmons Student Union:
Chairs are set up in front of any television, volume is turned up, no one wants to change the channel from CNN. Grandfather Mountain Ballroom is being set up with tables and chairs, the large screen projectors are lowered, students, professors, staff members trickle in and sit down to watch this happen. People are either silent or are telling each other what's been happening.

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The United States of America has a Zero Tolerance Policy regarding terrorists and terrorist attacks. Since we don't believe that this is a domestic attack, then it must be a terrorist attack. Therefore, the USA government will probably declare war on someone, it will probably bomb someone, it will probably kill someone--innocent bystanders and the terrorists. More loss of life, more grief, more hatred, more, more, more...
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12:53pm
The Taliban news conference via videophone and a bad translator.

1:10:pm
So Yeah...I woke up this morning at 8:45am EDT to the most beautiful blue skies, light breeze, sunny day; I felt good. Manhatten at 8:45am EDT woke up to hell.


9:49pm
So Yeah...but Jonny, you are doing something by staying in Buffalo. You're staying out of hell, out of rescue workers ways, you are doing a lot. Give blood...even if you pass out from giving, still give. It is eminent now.

Today I don't know what to say. I am still scared. I am not ashamed or afraid to say that. I worry that something is going to happen, especially if the USA bombs Iraq in a preemptive strike. I don't know what to think aobut that...I don't think that we should bomb anyone, but I guess that the government (who is supposed to represent the American people) don't agree with me.

Probably the worst memory of September 11, 2001 is driving home with my sister and her fiancé at the time (they got married this summer), crying. We drove home to find out when Mom and Dad's flight from San Diego was supposed to leave. Actually I thought that they were flying out of Los Angeles airport, which one of the flights that day was flying to. Luckily, they weren't supposed to fly home to Boone until September 12th, but then their flight was delayed until Saturday night, and they got home Sunday. I don't know if I can describe the sense of dread, loss, sadness, hurt, frustration, and, most of all, family, that I felt one year ago; and then again on Sunday when I got to see them.
In another journal, a paper/online private journal that I sometimes write in, I wrote something interesting (at least to me):
Sunday, September 9, 2001, 12:05am
I went home this weekend...or rather last night. Once I got inside, upstairs (I forgot my keys), a total sense of relief and happiness swept over me. I was home. No one was near me, asking me for something, or just generally bugging me. All my stress left. Mom and Dad are in San Diego for the weekend as an anniversary thing. So I told them that I'd come home Saturday night. It was wonderful. I didn't have to worry about anything. I wanted to write in my journal or on here, but I told myself that I wasn't going to turn on the computer...the tv, yes, but the computer, no. Once again, this break is what I needed. I don't think that this is healthy...needing a break every week or so. I mean, most people don't have to retreat from society to keep functioning for another week. Ack! Oh well...

And that is two of my personal stories from last year,



**Everyone is wearing their I Love NY shirts today, and since I don't have one, I am using my I Love NY shot glass. ;-}

 
so yeah...some of you have been asking what the previous entry was about...don't worry about it...i was just spouting off after lunch one day. why don't you download or read the lyrics to ani difranco's song and then you might figure it out. but if not, that's cool. it's just another ranting about the life that i'm living. nothing to worry about.

 
so yeah...before it was them, and now it's her...damnit...and i have to be an adult about this...fuck you and your untouchable face...

 
so yeah...i'm sitting here while charlie, the bestest person, is massaging my tired neck. he thinks he's cool cause he graduated and doesn't have to live in coffey now, but i 'm not so sure.

 
So Yeah...I'm nostalgic for a time that's gone. Listening to a new cd, all the songs are new...it's rem's out of time, but i've only heard two of the songs. this is really cool. i'm talking to david online. i'm not sure what's going on. i'm so excited to be moving back into coffey. i remember how it was the first time i moved in there. i was so scared and worried. but so extrememly excited about it. why can't things be that simple again?

yeah, i'm goign to go to bed soon...today was the last day of my summer.

 
So Yeah...I have 3 more hours of work at the High Country Host! Yes, today is my last day. I really do enjoy working here, I like the people, the customers, the information, the free time to fart around on the computer all day. But in 15 weekends since school got out until now when I have to move in on Wednesday, I have only had 3 weekends off--for 3 weddings. It's a gorgeous Sunday afternoon. I don't want to be in here typing away on here, listening to u2, I want to be out somewhere, even if that means sleeping in--what a concept!!! Sure I probably wouldn't be doing anything of significance at home, so it is fortunate that I could do nothing and get paid for it here, but I still want my weekends. I think i wouldn't hate this so bad if I didn't have to work every weekend. By the time I get out of work, I'm too tired to do anything or to go to any of the concerts, plays, or hiking trails that I have just told 100 other people about.

This has been a long summer...because the school decided to include our exam days in the number of days that we should attend class. That would be nice except for the fact that my professors don't have enough time to teach everything that they want to get done. Sure we don't have standardized tests in college to prepare for, but students are in college to learn, and to get the most education for their money. I don't agree with this exam day ruling. I think that it was better before, when we started mid-August and got out mid-December. Now we're starting just 4 days before Labor Day weekend, and we are getting out mid-December. I don't know. Personally, as I learn more and more each semester I realize how ignorant and stupid we all are. I just read this 13 page article: The Free Trade Fix, and tried my hardest to understand it, but I couldn't. I have been in college for two years now and I can't understand everything that they are talking about. Most of my knowledge on Free Trade, NAFTA, IMF, and the World Bank is from an hour and a half session at a conference over spring break. That is pathetic. Why haven't I learned any of this in my classes here at the university??