Who was I today?

I was a scared little chickenshit running around campus. "Why?" you ask. Well, besides the fact that I can think of at least six people off the top of my head who would be my straight up pick for looking at the news and thinking "hey, that's not a half bad idea", there's the loony that packed up and came to south Louisiana today. "If you think that was bad, then you haven't seen anything yet." he wrote in a note that alluded to the Virginia Tech massacre. Not the kind of shit I needed to hear about today. I didn't want to go to campus to begin with, then when I dropped the kids off I almost turned around to pick them back up and go home. Then that shit breaks.

I need a beer.

Technorati tags: children, class, college, evil, shootings, Virginia Tech

Scary Day on Campus

If you've been living under a rock, you haven't heard that there are 33 dead at Virginia Tech today, 29 wounded.

I'm not sure what to think of that other than to wonder if the next time CNN reports on a school shooting, will it be my school? My kids go to my school, the campus daycare, so that really scares the hell out of me. One day, will I flip on the news after class and see that my campus is under attack? Will I have to curse out some perimeter guarding cop as I try to get my children? What would happen to me if I had to endure that kind of stress? That's the kind of thing that changes you, even if everything is okay in the end.

Who will you be after today?