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My floor is covered in tons and tons of paper, because I finally got a filing cabinet (Goodwill, $10, thank you) and so in the effort to become more organized I first have to become, you know, disorganized. And I have just oodles of things that are of the sort my -mom- should have kept...report cards, gifted evaluations, poems to my feet...but I never trusted her not to lose them and so -I- kept them and now I can't get rid of them. Now I'm having visions of myself showing my future child, you know, my second grade report card: "Look, mommy got 'E's in everything but math and geography."
And this is just sick.

We're off tonight to see Mystery of Attraction at Theatre Schmeatre because my friend Katie did the set design for it and got me free tickets. This is even cooler than when I got free tickets to last year's Fall Independant Designer Fashion Show.

And now, in the effort against Getting Dressed and Cleaning My House, this:

Where were you when:

1. When John F. Kennedy was shot (11/22/1963)
Nowhere to be found, since my mom was only about a year old.

2. When Mt. St. Helens blew (5/18/1980)
Again nowhere to be found--I wouldn't enter the scene for another two years.

3. When the space shuttle Challenger exploded (1/28/1986)
I was three and worried about pieces of space shuttle landing on my head.

4. When the 7.1 earthquake hit San Francisco (10/7/1989)
Earthquake? I'm not sure I was even aware that California existed yet.

5. When the Berlin Wall fell (11/7/1989)
In school. I drew cartoons about the "Berlin Speedbump" until my teachers made me stop, but I don't think I knew what was going on.

6. When the Gulf War began (1/16/1991)
It happened just in time for my failed campaign for fourth grade president, in which I said I would stop the war and my classmates told me I couldn't stop it because it just started.

7. When OJ Simpson was chased in his White Bronco (6/17/1994)
You know, I remember all the jokes about it, but none of the actual happening.

8. When Oklahoma City was bombed (4/19/1995)
In seventh grade history class. Someone came in and whispered to the teacher and she stopped what we were doing and turned on the tv.

9. When Princess Di was killed (8/31/1997)
I don't think I heard about it until school the next day, and then I didn't believe it.

10. When Bush was first announced President (11/7/2000)
In Florida, which should carry its own explanation, and pissed off.

11. When the 6.8 earthquake hit Nisqually, WA (2/28/2001)
I didn't know there had been one until I moved out here and everyone was talking about earthquake damage.

12. When terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center (9/11/2001)
At my desk in the dorm in my pj's...I didn't have a class until 2:30. Amanda ran in and said someone had bombed the World Trade Center and we looked at ESPN.com, and then I threw on some clothes and we ran out into the rotunda where everyone was crowded around the tv. We all disintigrated; I couldn't get ahold of anyone in New York. I had just been there two months before and had breakfast in a resaurant in the building after I fainted on the subway. Everyone just sat there, holding onto each other and crying, for hours. And I remembered that I hadn't called my mom on her birthday, which was the day before.

13. When Columbia disintegrated during re-entry over Texas. (2/1/2003)
Doing storytime at the King County Public Library for Sigma Tau Delta. One of the dads came in and asked if he could turn on the tv in the room. We couldn't get much of a picture, just sound, so we were pretty much hearing about it on a big screen radio.

Wow...that was pretty sad. I do indeed live in a news-free bubble, friends.