I think that it will be the weird things that stick with me:
- Taking the stairs out of my office on September 11, even though the elevators were working fine.
- The world's most orderly bank run: outside of a bank that had abruptly closed early, a line at the ATM stretching all the way down the black.
- The haphazard nature of the phone system -- some phone were working fine; some you couldn't get a dial tone on at all; some it took ten seconds to get a dial tone; and forget about trying to use a cell phone.
- Seeing the Halloween displays at KMart a week later while people were calmly buying lots of emergency supplies.
- An utter inability to recognize one of my neighbors at that same KMart. I knew I knew her, but could not, for the life of me, remember from where. Of course, she couldn't either...
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I took the Foreign Service Exam last Saturday. I hope I didn't screw up too badly....
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Coming Soon:
What should Paul be for Halloween?