So it was a disconcerting day here in Blacksburg VA where we were just elevated into an elite group of locales - locales with massive almost inexplicable shootings. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070416/ap_on_re_us/virginia_tech_shooting;_ylt=AukEZ97qIIdwR.M0MuwnJi2s0NUE Make sure you click on the photo, it starts a slideshow/clickthrough of some very shocking pictures - at least they're shocking to me. Our always serene (and dubbed 'beautiful and serene campus by Shirley Manson of Garbage during her tour's arrival here) campus lined by people in body armor with fully automatic rifles and people in uniform running from place to place...

The gunman somehow shot a few people in Ambler-Jonston hall at around 7am and then got across campus and two hours later shot up a classroom. 31 people dead and 29 injured, and he killed himself making him the 32nd dead. (These are just estimates, and no details have been released until the families can be contacted.) I am fine, everyone I know is fine, incluing my mother who works on campus... It was somewhat startling realizing that she really does work on campus and this realy did happen here.

( Some photos I found particularly... I don't know what, for posterity. )