Tuesday, June 15, 2004
How has your life changed post-9-11?
Walter Granger 39,
Data Transfer Manager
"Well I check the sky everytime I go into the office just to make sure there's no planes headed into it"
John Mitchum 21,
College Student, Majoring in Football
"It's like now girls are like totally suspicious about you going near their drink, like you're going to put anthrax in there. Give me a break!"
Sue-Ellen Mowbry 37,
Disgruntled Housewife
"You know I go jogging a lot, and I use to jog with Soumena Sengupta from up the road there, but her and her family had a rough go of it, so they got forced from the neighbourhood, and along this one path I see a lot of Starbucks coffee cups, and prior to 9-11 I would not have given them a second thought, but post 9-11, well they mean so much more. They don't have those luxuries over there (Afghanistan), and that's why they hate us, fear us, want to blow us up. We have what they can't have. We have freedom!"
Ricky Hedyea 7,
elementary school student
"We don't go on so many vacations anymore, because I get upset when we do, on like the airplane and stuff, there might be like a bad person from another country or something and you could crash"
Ricky, if you could send one message out to those 'terrorists" what would it be?
"I'd want them to know that people still love them and that they have people that care about them."
Jesse Crane 27
Archivist
"The other day I was reading Jerry Seinfeld's auto biography and they made reference to 9-11, 'he was more dangerous than a boxcutter'. I just started to cry right then and there, we now live in a terrorist state."
Jack Kendall 43,
unemployed layabout
"Man that show was cool with Captain Kirk, they should'na taken it off the air."
It's funny, you can make all the jokes you want about the sheer ridiculousness people have exhibit in the last two plus years, but the sad truth is is that people really do express these sentiments. I'm not sure why, but people wish to believe that we in North America are on constant terror alert.
We were discussing upcoming construction at the library last week and it came up that they don't usually tell us until the day of, that construction is going to be taking place. There's very little input from the workers and there's very little communication between administration and the masses. Last summer work, when I was employed here, work started on the new computer lab adjacent to the circulation desk. The work, when started, took the staff completely by surprise and the staff apparently hit the ground thinking that a jet had crashed through the library. One staff member told me that the sound of the construction was exactly that of "a jet engine coming right through the doors."
I bit my lip. I tried not to laugh. I could have suspended my utter disbelief for a second. It's quite possible that al-Qaida could view Dalhousie as a symbol of North America's corpulence. They may see the library as a base of western arrogance and worthy of destruction. It's also quite possible that my fellow worker has once been in a situation where a jet crashed through an office building or private dwelling that she was in.
I mean we do live in a terrorist state.
Walter Granger 39,
Data Transfer Manager
"Well I check the sky everytime I go into the office just to make sure there's no planes headed into it"
John Mitchum 21,
College Student, Majoring in Football
"It's like now girls are like totally suspicious about you going near their drink, like you're going to put anthrax in there. Give me a break!"
Sue-Ellen Mowbry 37,
Disgruntled Housewife
"You know I go jogging a lot, and I use to jog with Soumena Sengupta from up the road there, but her and her family had a rough go of it, so they got forced from the neighbourhood, and along this one path I see a lot of Starbucks coffee cups, and prior to 9-11 I would not have given them a second thought, but post 9-11, well they mean so much more. They don't have those luxuries over there (Afghanistan), and that's why they hate us, fear us, want to blow us up. We have what they can't have. We have freedom!"
Ricky Hedyea 7,
elementary school student
"We don't go on so many vacations anymore, because I get upset when we do, on like the airplane and stuff, there might be like a bad person from another country or something and you could crash"
Ricky, if you could send one message out to those 'terrorists" what would it be?
"I'd want them to know that people still love them and that they have people that care about them."
Jesse Crane 27
Archivist
"The other day I was reading Jerry Seinfeld's auto biography and they made reference to 9-11, 'he was more dangerous than a boxcutter'. I just started to cry right then and there, we now live in a terrorist state."
Jack Kendall 43,
unemployed layabout
"Man that show was cool with Captain Kirk, they should'na taken it off the air."
It's funny, you can make all the jokes you want about the sheer ridiculousness people have exhibit in the last two plus years, but the sad truth is is that people really do express these sentiments. I'm not sure why, but people wish to believe that we in North America are on constant terror alert.
We were discussing upcoming construction at the library last week and it came up that they don't usually tell us until the day of, that construction is going to be taking place. There's very little input from the workers and there's very little communication between administration and the masses. Last summer work, when I was employed here, work started on the new computer lab adjacent to the circulation desk. The work, when started, took the staff completely by surprise and the staff apparently hit the ground thinking that a jet had crashed through the library. One staff member told me that the sound of the construction was exactly that of "a jet engine coming right through the doors."
I bit my lip. I tried not to laugh. I could have suspended my utter disbelief for a second. It's quite possible that al-Qaida could view Dalhousie as a symbol of North America's corpulence. They may see the library as a base of western arrogance and worthy of destruction. It's also quite possible that my fellow worker has once been in a situation where a jet crashed through an office building or private dwelling that she was in.
I mean we do live in a terrorist state.
# posted by Die Brucke @ 11:22 AM 
