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feeling: like it's way too early
listening to: Day After Tomorrow - My Faith
Holy Pop Tarts, I'm blogging in the MORNING. Ugh.
Ok... so this whole threat of WW3 thing has never really bothered me before, right? I mean it has, but not to the point where I really, genuinely fear for my life or the lives of anyone I love. Nor to the point of actually paying attention to the headlines before I head to class in the mornings. No one I know has been drafted, there's no way I can be drafted, I don't think anyone in my family can be either... plus, in terms of 'war', nothing has really happened yet, right? So I haven't been wasting time fretting over it 24/7. This morning, though, I received an email from the president of my university which included this line:
In February, the FBI noted the possibility of terrorist attacks against "soft targets," including colleges and universities.
Now, this probably means nothing. The so-called terrorists of the world probably have never said anything like this (they wouldn't have told the FBI, anyhow), and it's probably just one of things the FBI conjured up to scare people. Might even be something taken too personally and twisted out of proportion by the uppers at my university just for the purpose of making students join more interracial extracurricular activities so the university will look better. But... for some reason, reading this shook me up a little. I go to the biggest university in the nation, and if terrorists are gonna start targeting universities, I don't see how this one could NOT be near the top of their list. It's no Ivy League, but it's enormous, and screwing with it would really freak out most of America. Even if I know nothing'll come of that little statement, it still made me more worried about all this terrorism/war junk than I've been to date... not that I was worried before, though, so that's not saying much. Basically it just sort of made me pay attention, or something.
There's my little journal entry for the morning/day. Might post again later. Time to toddle off to class now.
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 3/11/2003 09:12:00 AM
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