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darkadaptedeye

blue skies and falling buildings

Sep 11, 2006 13:01

It was a beautiful Tuesday morning and I would have gladly skipped work given any reasonable excuse. Sometime over the night, I had turned off the air conditioning and opened my bedroom windows to allow the breeze to gently drift inside ( Read more... )

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kellibunny September 11 2006, 18:11:47 UTC

i was certainly anticipating your post today... thank you.

darkadaptedeye September 11 2006, 18:37:13 UTC

thanks.

actually... i was originally going to write about my weekend. but, somehow that felt a little hollow. because i technically now work within a wall street firm, i was struck by the sense of how many people within my office and industry were so heavily impacted by those events. pinned up to the wall by my computer screens are maps and emergency plans as well as the location of our back-up offices.

i started this journal in february 2002, yet it seems i never actually wrote specifically about that day. so... finally, there it is.

libertina September 11 2006, 18:14:16 UTC

I really enjoy your writing. Today is no exception. Thank you.

darkadaptedeye September 11 2006, 18:48:08 UTC

thanks.

i'd never actually written about it before. i always worried that there was something trite about it. but today with the sun and the sky, it somehow came to mind.

marty_the_party September 11 2006, 20:14:48 UTC

I've never written either but I think I will do so too later tonite. My mom told me to write things down when it happened but I never did. I still have disposable cameras filled with pics of that week I've never developed.

Hey Christopher I'll prolly check out Union Square tonite and grab a drink if you're interested.

darkadaptedeye September 11 2006, 20:36:02 UTC

i think with some things we need distance. sometimes we have so many different thoughts on a topic, it's hard to bring focus to it. or we were too busy trying to overcome and move past something.

i'm not yet sure what i'm up to tonight, but i was thinking about stopping through the double down since i've been in and out of the city so much over the past few weekends.

u_505 September 11 2006, 18:21:42 UTC

As you know, I do so enjoy your writing. On another note, here's an update about an old acquaintance. http://www.ndu.edu/nesa/facultystaffbios/BarnoD.pdf
It's a shame that he's retired. Here's a journal article he wrote: http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/06summer/barno.pdf

Take care of yourself, old son.

darkadaptedeye September 11 2006, 19:17:27 UTC

it's an interesting article. and he really was a great commander. i'm disappointed that we never got to see him make it to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, but considering the politics, i can't really blame him for taking the retirement and leaving.

on another note, did you ever make a decision about returning to school for film?

u_505 September 11 2006, 19:51:21 UTC

Yes, I have. I'm going to do it. I wanna make movies. As for General Barno, I wonder if his health was a factor. My guess is that if his health is good that he really didn't want any 4 star job that was available. He would have made a great CinCPac or CinCCentcom.

smau September 11 2006, 19:03:00 UTC

"it was a beautiful day on our block, while less than a mile away the world was falling apart."
wow...that is depressing

Amazing that it has been only 5 years...feels like yesterday and a million years ago...
Somehow it is hitting me harder now than when it happened.

darkadaptedeye September 11 2006, 19:23:28 UTC

feels like yesterday and a million years ago...

very true. i think for a long time too many of us were either too busy reacting to it, or were trying to move on and away from it.

on days like this, i tend to completely avoid the media circus. but today it's the weather that's acting as the reminder.

xtarasuex September 12 2006, 03:04:57 UTC

You seem very nonchalant about the whole thing. As if you were sipping coffee and the tower fell. And no reaction. Altough I don't believe thats what happened.

Was the sex good. I wonder if I'd be grasping on to every second if the attacks were that close to me and not knowing what was going to happen next.
I wish I could live daily with that kind of interest in my life.

darkadaptedeye September 12 2006, 03:47:23 UTC

it's an interesting juxtaposition that comes up in several of the accounts i've read from other new yorkers: that "beautiful day" aspect.

in a way, we were nonchalant. it was a disaster, but it wasn't directly on top of us, it was just over there. we were slipping into survival mode, and all we could do was watch from a relatively safe distance, where it was sunny and nice. and if the somehow the whole city exploded and caught fire, we had limited options on where else to run ( ... )