the gravity of the situation….
……came on us like a bit of new knowledge.
Feeling pretty weird these days. My heart hurts…. I’m tired of watching the news, yet I can’t seem to pull myself away at times. I’ve always been a news junkie and I know it sometimes gets on Kristen’s nerves, along with many of my other glorious quirks (but they’re mine)… but it’s tough being a “news junkie” with the coverage constantly involving home. I’ve spoken many times with two of the professors that were killed. I filmed some of their classes when I worked at Virginia Tech. I recognize the other murdered professors as well from working on that side of campus. I only know a few current students at Tech, and thankfully they are okay… but it’s tough to see the faces of people you saw on a regular basis… and to know that they were brutally killed. It doesn’t sit well with me. It’s so difficult to see the young faces (only a few years older than my little sister..), freshman faces with their whole lives ahead of them…knowing what happened to them.
Sure I have my own personal criticism on the way that Tech handled the situation. But you can’t exactly dwell on that criticism because it isn’t going to bring them back. The media has been relentless with their criticism…now turning a lot of that focus to the VT Counseling Center where a grand friend of mine works… I know he has to be under a lot of stress and fire from the administration and from the media, and I feel for him. He’s strong though… and he’ll make it through.
Just take the situation as it is and move on. It’s tough to do.
Maybe Blitzer’s beard can heal us all. He’s in Blacksburg.
