Where were you?

[muse0fire]

Had a lovely time in San Francisco - had the second best meal of my entire lifetime (thanks to the generosity of my friend John), and got addicted to a game called PuzzleQuest on his xbox360. Thank goodness it has terrible reviews for the Wii version - if I had that in my house I would do NOTHING ELSE.

Meanwhile, husband acquired Guitar Hero. I

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[mogwaigrrl]

The shuttle disasters and 9/11 are the things I'll always remember. Kind of like the "JFK Assassination" for our generation.

I was in my science class. Sixth grade I think. I remember my teacher, who was a young woman and usually very upbeat, seemed very solumn. After the bell rang and we were all seated, she told the class what had happened.

I didn't see any of the footage until I got home, and of course that was all over the TV. It was horrible.

[curt_holman]

I was working on my computer as per usual when I received a phone call from my friend David Z. He said "Oh man," and wouldn't elaborate right away, and I thought he had just heard some bit of irritating movie news, like we'd normally talk about. When I told him that I didn't know what he was referring to, he explained that planes had struck the two towers and that one of them had already collapsed. I rang off and Goudabonbon and I turned on the TV to see the second tower smoking and then cave in on itself.

[muse0fire]

What about when Challenger exploded?

[muse0fire]

He was great - I still remember his ponytail (that he only had for a little while) and his demin jacket.

I actually thought I might want to be a mathematician after I took his class - THAT'S how good he was. (Pretty much lost that impulse the moment I stepped into calculus - from there on out it was nothing but drama and English classes all the way.)

[muse0fire]

I think there's something particularly terrifying about the idea of an accident in a spacecraft, whether it's still on Earth or it has reached space. We're still so fragile and undeveloped in that area - and our imagination (as shown in scifi) is leaps and bounds ahead of our abilities and realities.

And of course the fact that a civilian, a teacher, was on this craft, certainly made it even more human for most people.

[mogwaigrrl]

BTW, I have thus far refused to play Guitar Hero. That just takes a coordination that I'm not willing to put the time into developing. Nope.

[muse0fire]

My first attempt (at 11 PM after 5 hours of travel) was not so promising... but I'm willing to give it another shot.

Muse = not so with the coordination/reflexes thing