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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[mattp.livejournal.com]

I've yet to understand what it is Nye finds amusing about the towers
falling,
As have I, though I think it's the kind of conversation I'd prefer to have offline, or at least in a real-time setting rather than sporadic LJ comments whilst I'm at work.

As I said to bethanthepurple last night, comments like these are not necessarily meant at face value. Some people deal with trauma with sarcasm, flippancy or faux humour. To cite an example, I don't remember the details, but a few months ago I was having lunch with the producer of the documentary and he said that in this interview upon being told I made some off-hand remark which they had to cut out, which is why that scene was very short.