Thanks for emailing Heather. I'm fine. My office is two buildings down from Norris Hall, so that's fairly creepy. Well, I guess "fairly creepy" isn't quite right. There aren't terribly good words for the utter disconnect between what went on and what we, on campus but not outside, experienced. They changed the fatality count from 1 to 22 at the same time that we were evacuated, so this just seemed like a tragic repeat of the Malvo incident from the beginning of the academic year. It's hard to make sense of this as something happening here, now, but it doesn't make much more sense as the kind of international incident which it also is.
A tree felled my phone line, so I had to come into town to email and phone friends, family, colleagues, and students. So I'm now in a hookah bar which has wifi. Even the manner in which this doesn't make any sense doesn't make any sense.
Of course, I won't know about my students until the list of the dead is released.
I'll try to keep in touch.
