Time You Enjoy Wasting Is Not Wasted Time

A student talking to another student: Well, half paying attention while texting is better than sleeping through class. I don’t know what his (*I’m assuming the student’s professor*) problem is anyway.

Apparently just paying attention in class was not an option…..

Before 9/11 became known to the world it held a more personal and happier note to Karen and I. 12 years ago on a Wednesday night on a chilly September 11 was our very first date.

I love you Karen!!!!

(In the picture with Karen and I are my best friend Wil and his wife Jessica from when they visited last Christmas. Hi Wil and Jess, we miss you! That’s how far back I had to go to find a picture with both Karen and I in it. It seems like one of us is always taking the picture, so we are hardly ever in pictures together… )

Personally, that day was a very scary one. I was at work when it happened and one of the guys I worked with was checking a news website when reports of the first plane hit. Soon the report came about the second plane and everyone knew it wasn’t a freak accident. At one point our office manager put her husband on speaker phone so we could hear the news report he was listening to so we could know what was going on.

I remember being panicked because I knew my Dad, Mom, and StepDad were all in the city. I knew my Dad was planning on being at or near the towers (I think he was there the day before) and it turns out my Mom was scheduled for a meeting in one of the towers on the 12th. Creepy. I didn’t know that though. So I am trying to call them frantically, wanting to know if parts of my family were trapped or dead or alive. Eventually I heard from everyone. The waiting was very very nerve-wracking though. Luckily my Mom and Dad weren’t even in the city that day. Unfortunately my StepDad was, his office is very close to the towers. So although he wasn’t injured, he was one of the people who had to walk through the noxious air and deal with the horror first hand. I can’t imagine what that must be like.

It makes me mad when politicians use a horrible event like this as an excuse to do the inexcusable. And it is even worse when they continue to peddle fear and hate to this very day. I believe that is the biggest disrespect to those who lost loved ones on that frightful day.

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