The next decade....what's in store?
Musings of a yamfooted traveller still trying to shake off those last 20 pounds as she treks across the Caribbean
Those of you reading this blog long enough would have read this story about making a decision whether I should go to the US university that I had been given a full Assistantship to.
That university was Virginia Tech. If I had gone, I would have been finishing in 2008 which means I would have been registered as a student there still, and still on campus. I would have been a research student. I'm sure I wouldn't have been in Norris Hall or that dormitory where the first two shootings took place, but you just never know. It's also possible that I would have been in Grenada watching cricket because I was not going to mek dat miss me!
Somebody up there is looking out for me. This is such a sad thing, but as somebody on my cricket message board says, there are several soldiers killed in Iraq every month too. But both are just sad and unnecessary, given what we know now about the VT shooter's history, and of course there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Life. A sad, sometimes funny thing.
Posted by yamfoot at April 18, 2007 05:19 PMit gives a whole new meaning to "be all you can be". shit happens well really shit happens in america
Posted by: owen at April 19, 2007 03:20 PMThings happen for a reason. But who knows you could have been registerd there and not be in class or on campus on Monday.
Such a sad time in our history
Posted by: Campfyah at April 20, 2007 04:17 PMsoldier in Iraq? In a weird sort of way, when you single them out it's as if you're putting them a peg above all the innocent people who are still dying there daily.
I dunno
Such a sad thing. I can't stop thinking of all those parents who sent off their children to study only to get the news that they were killed at a place that's supposed to be safe - university campus. It's definitely sad.
Posted by: gela at April 21, 2007 07:43 AM