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[apocalypsos]

I just got my Five Things That Didn't Happen to Hugo Reyes story set up exactly how I wanted it, and I've only got an hour before I have to leave for work. Hee. I've got impeccable timing. *g* Well, in any event, at this rate, I should have it done by Sunday, at the most. *happy dance*

In other news, 114,000?! Jesus, I can't even wrap my brain around that. I mean, the town I grew up had 1,800 people in it. Scranton has 76,000. One hundred and fourteen thousand people is a little less than the population of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre combined. The more I do the math, the weirder it gets. And I really need to stop watching the eyewitness videos of the tsunami. I mean, this is the stuff that interests me, that I like to know, but I can't watch it anymore because I have nightmares about rising waters like that. *shudder*

EDIT: I'm having Malaysian for lunch again. Roti canai -- mmm, yummy. Chicken curry -- good. This chicken curry -- eh, needs work.

DISTRACTION OF EDIT: Hey, anybody want to kill time contributing to a Lost drinking game? *eg*

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[spyderqueen.livejournal.com]

My hometown has 35,000 people living in it, so I'm trying to picture 4 to 5 times that number.

Alternatively, around 100 times the size of my college population.

It boggles my mind.

[fyrdrakken]

Last night Dad asked me how many people live in Mesquite (the suburb of Dallas where I live), and I told him that as best I could recall it's about 100,000. So, yeah, that being 2000 census data I could easily see it being in the ballpark of 114,000 by now.

[dustbunnygirl.livejournal.com]

The population of Topeka, as of 2000, was 122,000. So, basically almost my entire hometown wiped off the face of the Earth by one really big fucking wall of water.