All my London LJ peeps have checked in. An LJ FoF who I keep meaning to friend (and who happens to have JUST arrived in London in the last day or two) also appears to be okay, though she hasn't been able to get to a computer, and had to rely on the old-fashioned way of contacting people to spread the word that she's just stuck somewhere away from her computer.

How could someone have a thought and not say it out loud????

So true.

Tom, double dog dare you to walk near them singing "I Can Go the Distance" LOUDLY, maybe even out a window. That would be comedy GOLD.

I am pretty sure I have the Ricky Martin Spanish version of it here somewhere, I could send you an MP3.

There are drills, and then there are drills. This one is called "Operation Hercules".

How do you find out about it?

my co-worker doesn't let a conversation about London pass without saying something like, "well, it's too bad that happened over there, but I just hope that it won't start happening here." I don't know why this bugs so much. Possibly because I have personal stakes over there, as well as here.

Yes, this. And if I make myself stop and think, I can even understand. A little. I didn't have this strong a reaction to the Madrid bombings because I've never been to Spain. But I lived in England for a year, I know people there even if I've done a piss-poor job of staying in touch, and I spent a lot of time in London. Makes my fury very personal. Which I suppose is just as All About Me as your coworker and the person on my other list. But I'm still pretty pissed off at anyone who moves so quickly from "terrible thing elsewhere" to "Oh, God, what if it happens HERE?"

According to ex-mormon Websites (i.e. take with a grain of salt), a common male Mormon courtship technique is to waltz up to the lady and announce that God has given him a leading to marry her. This sometimes works.

Long time ago, but have to comment on this. I know of one case where it did. Friend of mine is a lapsed mormon, his sister was dating this guy she met at church. He told her that God had told him to get married, and if it wasn’t her, it would be someone else. And he did it over EMAIL (I swear). And, before you ask, she married him. Please don’t ask me why.

I was longing yesterday for the day when I'll be in London again, and I'm still longing for it today.

Susan, we can go together.

That sounds like pretty long range planning for house buying - is it being built to your specifications or something?

Well, not to my specifications, but it is being built from scratch.

congrats, Vortex! When do they begin construction?

Soon, if they haven’t already. It’s about 5 blocks from my office, so I’ll probably drive by on my way home to see if they’ve done anything.

So are all newspeople starting to call this "7/7" or just WNYC?

[Eta that I just realized my brother-in-law was in DC on 9/11, in Madrid on 3/11, and is in London now. Remind me never to travel with him.]

The building management announced it. There will probably be hundreds of heavily-armed SWAT officers right out front of our building.

msbelle! I was just about to e-mail you! I picked up your package, and I loved it! The picture frame is perfect (I have to think of a picture for it now!), I can't wait to try each one of the chocolates (and I'm so keeping the wrappings, because of the NYC pictures), the notes are lovely (I know there's a magnet, but I'm still going to attach one already to the present for my cousin's son's brit, next week!), and the bubblewrap inside? totally with a shade of pink.

Thank you! Exclamation points!

you are so welcome. I loved the NYC Kosher chocolates. SO FUN!. Glad you got it. Good to know teh time delay on packages to you, youknow, for future goodies.