Tough to watch, but very informative: The New York Times can walk you through every step of the shootings last Monday. No gore, but incredibly grim.
Unsurprisingly, the shootings are having mixed results on admissions — prospective freshmen have to let Tech know by next week whether or not they plan to attend classes in the fall.
In happier news, stores are having a hard time keeping Virginia Tech memorabilia on the shelves. I just received a Tech t-shirt, Hokies baby onesie, a Virginia Tech garden gnome (!) and Virginia Tech Alumni licence plate frame here at work from the campus bookstore. I guess I got in under the wire.
Wendy Wickham, whom I went to high school and college with, put together this memorial to Virginia Tech, incorporating a Northern Virginia candlelight vigil:
Here’s a little morbid humor for you: In the natural human desire to understand why something horrible happens, folks are assigning blame to the usual suspects (videogames, violent movies) and to some new-to-me culprits (liberalism, China and Bill Gates).
One blogger is keeping track. He’s now up to 58 reasons the shooting happened, according to various pundits.
If you’re looking for reporting that’s not the national (and international) media’s take on the events of last Monday, I suggest local news reports, including those from Virginia Tech and Southwest Virginia:
My workplace can exasperate me at times — if your workplace never exasperates you, they’re paying you too much — but not today.
Everyone at the Daily Press, Desert Dispatch and Hesperia Star received a Virginia Tech “in remembrance” button today, and the Daily Press is accepting donations for the Virginia Tech memorial fund.
After the dark events of this week, time for something black, but not in the least dark.
Lucky learned the trick first, but Hanna might be the one who’s really mastered it. Today, both will drag a toy they want to play with (usually a prey object on a string attached to a stick — Lucky in particular likes his pretty beaten up and unrecognizable, while Hanna prefers very cheap and lightweight toys she can carry around easily, stick and all), drop it at my feet and meow. Hanna will sometimes actually drop it on my feet and give a very long and involved “mrr-row-ow” meowing.
We never taught them this; they came up with it on their own. Pretty useful, though, since there’s no question of what they’re asking for.
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