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Monday, April 16, 2007
Welcome to the information age.

I can bear witness to unfolding tradgedy while I sit at work.

When the day started, I was pissed. One of the lawyers wanted me to translate for one of our more mumbly clients (to be fair, she's had a stroke and is coping with it amazingly), a task I never really feel up to. No apparently doesn't mean no when it comes to tasks I'm uncomfortable with and can explain that I'm unqualified for. Between that and the cold office I was a little bitch-queen this morning.

I'm sorry I was complaining over nothing. Unlike 30 people in Virginia, I'm still alive.

There is something very disturbing about how instantaneous news has become. You can watch a body count rise by hitting the refresh button on your browser. Does this make the carnage more or less real.

For me it became more real. I hated hitting the "Google News" button because of what I might find next...but I did it anyway. I felt like I had to know.

I'm not a better person for knowing up to the minutes stats on the dead and wounded of Virginia Tech. It kinda hurts to know.

This transmission logged byErisSaid on 4:25 PM

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That's kinda how I feel. Yeah, I had a shit day today...but I feel like even bigger shit complaining about it in the wake of everything that happened today... I was afraid to come back to the news after a break. Because every time I did, the death toll grew. ~Marie
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