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sholanda ([personal profile] sholanda) wrote2001-09-15 11:11 am

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the thing about cleaning the computer room is that i can't stay off the computer.
i should turn off the monitor or something.

so i'm thinking...do i really want to go to oklahoma next weekend??? somehow i feel that the nonviolent sentiment is not going to be permeating the atmosphere there. and the whole jerry falwell/ pat robertson thing. they love that shit there.
i am torn between wanting to be with my family (my parents) and my dear dear friends, but not wanting to experience this time there as a culture. i don't want to talk about the situation with everyone over and over. i want to hear how good fennel is walking, i want to check out zoie and hear her first words. i want to chill and listen to some bridge road caravan at uncle bill's. i want to hug sequojah and drive around in norman. the leaves are going to be changing color!! i never really appreciated it before but now that i live in a climate with no fall it's sort of exciting.
sigh.
i dunno.
i don't mind the flying part. it's not that. if the flights are even back to normal by then.
when i first called my mom on tuesday morning we immediately got into a debate about the proper "response". i was just calling to check in and tell her i loved her. we are so different. my dad was pretty cool. he was in the army during vietnam (he was shipped to korea, though. but still. i think he has some trauma over the whole experience.) so he and i agreed on "not going off all half-cocked".

sigh.
i could just hole up in my adolescent bedroom and read the red tent. that sounds good. i can always read there because my mom takes the baby and i just kick back and let her cook.

indecision.

[identity profile] leslieshow.livejournal.com 2001-09-16 11:15 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think I could be in oklahoma right now...not only because of how they would be dealing with this, but because some of them will probably feel like they are even more strongly effected because of the bombing (which i can see as a normal reaction with what they have gone through). i just feel a need to stay away from self-pity right now, because there are so many people in despair i don't think i could deal with "yeah, the ny thing is sad, i remember when the bombing happened here...." it would just be like double wammy, ya know? some people have really had a strong reaction to my way of dealing with all of this but i just feel sorta numb. i don't know if it's because of the ok bombing or if i'm just choosing not to deal with it. i will say i have been ashamed of being an american with all the insanity that has occurred against middle-eastern people that live here in america. my heart hurts for them right now and this too has angered people i know. i feel no desire for revenge...i'm just tired of all this...