Frustrating day
So, as most of you know, I attend Virginia Tech. So today, the NY Yankees are in town to have a little batting practice with our baseball team. This is part of the memorial stuff for April 16th. As April 16th approaches, I am getting more and more frustrated with the forced reminders. Yes, I remember what happened. Yes, I remember it every time I walk into my lab. I remember it every time I go to class. I remember it when I am sitting at my desk next to my labmate that was shot.
I remember. I am kind of tired of remembering tbh.
So as I was saying, the yankees are in town and it has apparently brought some of the freaks back out. As I walked into Norris today there were people milling around the doors taking pictures of the building, the doors, the students walking in and out. When I opened the outside door I felt like a tourist attraction or a freakshow. So I decided to come back to my desk (in a different building) to try and hide and surf the internet for something that does not have to do with guns or April 16th. But apparently today is the day of reminders. I run into the traffic jam outside because the Yankees decided to park their bus in the middle of the road so they could see the memorial. When I finally make it to my desk – I have an email about the memorial activities and an email that they will be installing a ceiling in the lab below me tomorrow and they wanted to warn me it will sound like gun fire. Now great email – I was really glad to be warned, but why today?
I think on the actual April 16th I will just go into hibernation.
/end rant – I feel better now.
