I’ve been hearing about NATO’s mutual defense pact, and about 20 billion dollars congress has given over to fight this, and how the president is vowing to “eradacate terrorism”. And all I can think is that this is how world wars start. Why do I feel like something big and nasty is coming?

It finally happened. I saw something that moved me to tears. I’ve been shocked, angry, bewildered, but now I’ve seen pictures of others around the world affected by all this, and now I’m just at my desk trying not to cry.

Another photoessay at Time.com.

List of tennants of the WTC – Costar Group

Price gouging in the midwest. When things calm down a little, a lot of folks are going to be asking questions. This is a federal offense, folks.

I still can’t get NPR on my radio, but their website is back up.

Still haven’t heard much in the media about how DC is handling all of this. Makes me wonder how much of this story we’ll ever fully know.

More and more of my friends have checked in over private email and mailing lists. I wish I could give them all real hugs.

The vibes that are just out there and floating around – free floating confusion, anger, and worry. It’s enough to make your head spin. I just want to go home and hug my cats.

I don’t know when I started living in Jerry Bruckhiemer’s (sp) head. The world has become so unreal and here I am at work trying to stay productive and just not think. I’ve already been in touch with my family. My boyfriend got sent home from his job early. We’ve got all the radios in the office giving us the news and I’m going to Slashdot for info and pointers to news sites that are still working. (CNN is up now.)

Where do we go from here? Is it over, or just the beginning of something even worse?