Citizen of the World

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Sadly, I have waited and waited to answer this Writer's Block for 9/11. It's sad on two fronts: 1) On 9/11 this year, we didn't have the TV on while I was playing with my 1.5 year-old nephew at the beach and didn't realize that it was 9/11/2008 and 2) things in that area of town haven't progressed as noticeably as they should have by now. Politics, red-tape, a plethora of billionaires wanting "their share of the new construction", and baffling delays have staidly kept away the future.

I was driving to work that day listening to the news on WXPN (from Philadelphia). Even still, when I begin to talk or write about that day 7 years ago, my eyes tear. My sister's screams on the phone about the towers falling still rip into my mind; the earth shook in my heart that day and the world changed in that moment. I sensed my Weltanschauung falling apart over the phone line and in my tears outside my Princeton office building.

I didn't go into NYC for about 2 months afterwards; I didn't want the destruction to be real. I rented all the movies I could that contained the towers to see them again in all their glory and the pristine NY skyline as it was; as it should have still been.

My first flight out of the area was around Halloween to Minneapolis, where there were threats of a terrorist attack on the Mall of America. I specifically went to that mall in reckless defiance to the threats. Less than 2 weeks after that trip, I was in Chicago. The cab driver asked me where I was from and then whether I knew someone who had worked in the towers; I had to answer, "Yes, quite a few people. They're all alive, thank God." I pretended to take a call so I could cry out the window because I couldn't continue talking about it.

Change can happen over time without realization of its coming. 9/11 was an instant, drastic, painful change. And I even feel so small talking about it because it's so big.

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Palin's a TOTAL liability. Her 17-yr-old daughter's pregnant, she's so myopically right-wing it's nauseating, and she lobbied FOR oilfields in Alaska so that her husband and family would get rich quick - just like Chaney with Halliburton. Palin, McCain, and all the Republicans make me sick. I'm glad Palin's a liability and so drastically, undeniably much more inexperienced than Obama, John Edwards (who I can't stand, either for a myriad of other reasons), and others who have run for high-level political positions lately.

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My Personal Style...
1) In reference to my clothing: Fun, free-spirited, fashion-conscious, and colorful.
2) In my surroundings: Ordered chaos - not clutter per se, but there must be a "lived-in" quality to where I am. Also, at my desk, at home, there may be piles of things around my work area, but not in my face. Once things incroach on my personal space, it's time for them to be re-organized and cleaned up.
3) In terms of my writing: I tend to write things as they hit me and in somewhat linear fashion. I'm trying to broaden my "template," though, to incorporate a more 3-D writing element - once you're done with one of my quips, I want the picture of my descriptions to come together as a whole and not as separate, linear objects.