For the record ...

[apocalypsos]

It's the last day for apocalyptothon submissions.

*pokes anyone who's wavering*

EDIT: Also, it's my brother's twenty-first birthday today. My baby brother is twenty-one. Okay, that's just WEIRD.

OTHER EDIT: Boy, they're just tearing the people in charge at Virginia Tech to shreds at this press conference, aren't they? Not that they're not giving some pretty bad answers in response. I mean, it's not like I don't get where their reasoning for their actions are but they're really just not phrasing their answers well at ALL.

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[schtroumph-c.livejournal.com]

EDIT: Also, it's my brother's twenty-first birthday today. My baby brother is twenty-one. Okay, that's just WEIRD.

I had a moment like that two days ago, all worried because he wasn't home after midnight, and I realised he's nearly 17. In my head, he still had 14. And it's ignoring the older brother who has 31. It reminds me that I'm growing up too, and I'm an adult now.

[wal-lace.livejournal.com]

Also, it's my brother's twenty-first birthday today. My baby brother is twenty-one. Okay, that's just WEIRD.

My baby cousins, who I used to feed stuff to when they were too young to know better, are now twenty-one and twenty-two. That's not the disturbing part. The disturbing part is that the twenty-two-year-old is now a father (and his ex-girlfriend is a single mother), and the twenty-one-year-old just got engaged. To an Australian!

That's just not right.

[scary-being-me.livejournal.com]

I remember when my kid brother turned 21. Vaguely.

He's hitting 35 this year. Now, THAT makes you feel old.

I imagine they're still in shock. I doubt vwery many people would be giving good answers.

[katbcoll.livejournal.com]

It's really difficult for the average person (meaning: not used to dealing with press and tragedies) to give coherent answers so soon after something like this. The press doesn't always remember the difference between someone like a police department spokesperson and a school administrator.

[faith21.livejournal.com]

They are tearing them a new one because there was a shooting and everyone in charge went, 'oh, well, we can't find the gunman or the gun, back to class'.

Which, no. The lesson from 9/11 is never, go back to what you were doing, everything's fine.