And I just learned that the NYPD will be doing drills outside work today.
Yeah, pre-planned subway terror drills here today. Nice timing.
I know, world in peril and we have to work together. This is my last office romance, I'll tell you that.
Buffy ,'End of Days'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jul 07, 2005 4:15:41 am PDT #7703 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Tom Scola - Jul 07, 2005 4:18:59 am PDT #7704 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The BBC is reporting that contrary to earlier reports, there were four explosions.
Fred Pete - Jul 07, 2005 4:27:38 am PDT #7705 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Poor kitty...has he called the ASPCA to get the "lion cut" outlawed?
Not that I know of. But I don't know what the cats do while we're at work.
Hubs called (he's at work). Says Metro was normal for the commute in at 7-8 a.m., Eastern U.S. time.
Nilly - Jul 07, 2005 4:36:29 am PDT #7706 of 10001
Swouncing
so I e-mailed her instead and left the phone lines to people who don't know their loved ones are okay.
ita, I'm glad that things seem OK for your family. Also, very thoughtful of you, to keep the phone lines open.
lori - Jul 07, 2005 4:36:45 am PDT #7707 of 10001
Good ol' internet - source of reassurances that relatives of friends are okay, and cat talk. Glad to hear that sis is fine, ita. Hope everyone hears from loved ones soon.
So, how's that war working out again?
Jessica - Jul 07, 2005 4:37:46 am PDT #7708 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Gah. What a morning. Woke up (late) to the news about London. Listening to NPR online right now.
(Thank god all of my London friends/family remembered to post that they were okay, or I'd be a wreck.)
All my London co-workers are fine, but on a security alert, so work's gonna be slow today.
-t - Jul 07, 2005 4:38:26 am PDT #7709 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm glad to hear Jamaica is not too worried about Dennis. I was all prepared to stress out over the hurricane all day, and then woke up to the London news. Which promptly took over most of worrying capacity.
And which no one is talking about here at work. It's weird.
Volans - Jul 07, 2005 4:46:47 am PDT #7710 of 10001
move out and draw fire
Jeez, 40 reported dead now...and the news outlets have big BREAKING NEWS headlines up, which makes it an official EVENT.
sumi - Jul 07, 2005 4:47:08 am PDT #7711 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Yeah, when I got home last night I watched the BBC news so that I could catch all the happy Olympics celebrating. Then this morning NPR woke me up with the bombings and I was no. no. London is happy, celebrating. What a terrible turn of events.
TomW - Jul 07, 2005 4:50:43 am PDT #7712 of 10001
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
When I turned on the radio this morning, I assumed that all the London talk was Olympics-related. It took my brain about half a minute to tune into the fact that words like "simultaneous explosions" and "casualties" indicated an entirely different kind of story.