You want panic? August 3, 2004 ~ 4:45 pm
Posted by Julie in : Daily Grind , comments closedI’ll give you panic. Panic is when you call your cellphone to retrieve your voicemail (I do this all the time. I don’t like wasting minutes to check the vm), and realize that 1) you forgot to turn off the cellphone when you got to work today and everyone will soon be hearing your “Pour Some Sugar On Me” rigtone and 2) as you are diving through your bag searching for the cell, you aren’t hearing that ringtone so 3) your cell isn’t in the bag where you were sure you put it and 4) must either be at home still plugged into the charger (I hope, I hope, I hope) or 5) is riding an MTA bus back and forth all over Brooklyn.
Fingers crossed, it’s in my apartment. I mean, really fingers crossed. Because if I lost my cell, I don’t know what I’m going to do. Argh. Okay, I’m going home to see. Wish me luck.
Hurricane a comin’! August 3, 2004 ~ 10:21 am
Posted by Julie in : Daily Grind , comments closedFirst hurricane of the season - Hurricane Alex. Why is there never a Hurricane Julie? I want a hurricane named after me, dammit. A big one. So that people can say “Remember when Hurricane Julie hit? That was some serious damage!” and not be talking about when I got pissed off and ripped someone a new hole.
Speaking of Weather, the Weather Pixie is back. That’s good. I missed her. How was I to know what to wear without her?
Media, Schmedia August 3, 2004 ~ 9:49 am
Posted by Julie in : Daily Grind , comments closedSo I read my morning news to find that all the terror scare info that Tom Ridge put out over the weekend was years old. Thanks, Tom. Way to scare people. And such convenient timing. Told ya no one wants to bomb Newark.
Of course, the media played along with him. There is a great editorial in the NY Times today (click here to see it) about the whole media circus, which voices the same doubts that I have - to a lesser extent, of course - about the role of the media in regards to politics and terror scares. Worth checking out.
In the meantime, work continues in NYC. If we all stayed home everytime we had a terror scare up here, nothing would ever get done. As it is, nothing is getting done in a big way here: out my window, on the quad, they’re filming a Verizon commercial. I was hoping for a movie scene at the very least!
