I read someone somewhere who said that the reason the individual stories appeal so much is because we can't really comprehend the reality of the numbers. So we need one person, one story to begin to get a handle on it. All that water.
I keep thinking of the numbers in terms of stadiums, which sounds kind of flippant, but I don't mean it that way. I started doing it at whatever point the toll was around 45,000, and it occurred to me that it was like a sold-out Safeco Field with everybody in it dead, and it's depressing to have to keep going to larger and larger stadiums to imagine the sheer number of people.
And I stopped watching CNN when I got too emotional about the stories of children being swept out of their parents' arms and imagining it was Annabel.
sarameg, it's a good CD.
I think I have found the solution to my slide problem.
And now it looks like we'll be dealing with a University of Michigan football stadium full of dead people. It holds over 100,000. It's a big stadium.
The ocean, she is inexorable.
Aw, Lee, what's up?
Sorry to thwump and run. Mostly just a bad work day, but now, I get to go home.
Yay.
Lee - Dec 29, 2004 8:26:33 pm PST
but now, I get to go home. Yay.
That is just so far beyond wrong. This probably explains why I'm not further along on some kind of (*any* kind of) career path. Those kinds of hours are just unacceptable to me, and I'd tell anyone who had me working like that exactly where they could stick their billable hours.
I'd even provide diagrams.
I barely know what's going on in pop music anymore
Hush, you. Usher. That's all one needs to know. He's pretty.
Lee, please do go home, and make the most of fixing the rest of your day. But you have to hurry! Or, say, maybe avoid hurrying and exclamation points altogether.
Why does California still have a link to its
2002
Estimated Tax forms??
Arrrrggh.
I need 2004, damn it!
....and, just found it in another obscure link. Finally. Stupid government web people.
Hush, you. Usher. That's all one needs to know. He's pretty.
The last Usher song I know is Yeah, Yeah.
Usher is pretty. But he was cheating on whom with whom?
