the most eerie commute today. by the time i was out the door, i was already flooded with too much to stomach. even now, it's just so surreal and barely coming into my grip of reality. tuned to NPR, i was amazed that someone was talking about this constituting an act of war from palestine, that a strike against the middle east countries IS going to happen and that all foreign policy is going to be flipped over. never thought i'd hear something blanketing like that come from NPR. a half mile away from work, news of the second tower collapsing came on the radio. at the moment, the commute slowed down and collected into a solid column of cars that paused for a second. i've never seen such a thing in LA happen because of something other than a car accident. when i got to work, the parking lot was next to desolate. it looked like a regular day until i saw the faces of people leaving the building. hellos without smiles and reciprocating the motions. felt like i was at a funeral. people were in tears or in disbelief...i couldn't imagine any work going on. some people tried to work, but i doubt they got much done. then the supervisor called everyone in... notified us that the board of supervisors (for the county of LA) has ordered that the only function to be done today was finish the payroll, and that only the bare-bones people needed to print and approve them were asked to stay. everyone else was asked to leave the building, for safety measure. sorry, i can't write too well right now... there's just too much to even stomach... life itself is standing still, saturated with all of this. i just had to say something. i'm sorry... i'm sorry that this had to be my first post on sinister... that it's this choppy in substance and that it had to be about this. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+