Obligatory "September 11th" post

[mattp]

What were you doing when you heard, and what are you doing now?

Today I am at work.

In 2001 I was in bed, dozing when I heard, having just worked the night shift before. I got a text message from my ex saying "Have you heard the news?". I thought nothing of it (assuming it was related to someone in our social circle) and went back to bed, only to receive another text 20 minutes later from someone in another social group. At that point I saw my computer screen and had left it logged in to a talker. The message posting rate had skyrocketed, so I started reading and found out that way.

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[(Anonymous)]

I was on a train back to my Dad's place in Essex (this was before he'd met my step-mum, who he's now married to, which is quite wierd!) & I got a text from an actiovist friend of mine saying something like "Someone's flown a plane into the Twin Towers - looks like the couldn't find an airport" which i just ignored as i had no idea what he was on about!
I got there and started reading the paper and my Dad got a phonecall from his work and next thing i know he comes flying down the stiars shouting something about planes and the US and turns on the TV news channel and we just sat there watching it. It was really bizarre!

[immiscibility.livejournal.com]

doh - that was me!

:)