Sep. 11th, 2003

kaylarudbek: Justice seated in the heavens with open eyes and an uplifted sword (PD_Cricket)
Hello to [livejournal.com profile] piano_hack who newly friended me.

September Eleventh. "Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest forever in peace. Amen."

I remember where I was two years ago; a 1L, in at school early for a Legal Writing and Research session. I remember coming down to the student lounge after the session, and everyone watching the television. I remember being worried about my in-laws in D.C., and trying to find out if they were all right. I remember my torts professor canceling classes because he could not teach that day. I remember all my classes getting canceled, and the bus company running shuttles out of downtown every fifteen minutes, because the authorities were worried that Milwaukee, as a financial & banking center, would be attacked. No place was safe anymore.

And I remember the professors's reactions to it later on in the week -- torts, criminal law, etc. Who would the families of the victims sue, what court would try the planners of the attack, what kind of conspiracy it was, etc., and how totally inadequate law seemed as a tool to deal with the people who had done and planned this thing. "In times of war, the law is silent -- Inter arma silent leges." I remember emailing and talking to my father, and his telling me that this was not a crime, it was an act of war. My Contracts professor asked us that week, "How many of you think we're at war right now? And how many of you would go if you were drafted?" I remember being astonished at the naivete of my younger classmates, who didn't see it as an act of war, who didn't think we would go to war.

I remember reading the list on my alma mater's website of which members of the Notre Dame family had died, and saying prayers for them.

I never thought Bush would be such an idiot as to go after Iraq. I see it as vengeance, and not as a rational act in any way, shape, or form. Unless he did it to help out the oil business. But, "never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity," after all. If he was really concerned about stopping terrorism, he would make sure that we rebuilt Afghanistan as we did Germany after WWII, and then go after Saudi Arabia as the nurturer and teacher of such terrorists. But of course, since they control our oil supply, we can't do that. God forbid the American people would ever have to give up anything as they go to war. Why, that's so old-fashioned, so WWII.

I wonder what's going to happen to the U.S. in the days and years ahead. If Mr. Rudbek and I ever do manage to have children, I wonder what kind of world they will be born into. Will the U.S. be a police state? Will my children ever ask us, "Tell us what happened on September Eleventh," or will they view it as ancient history, something that happened before they were born, and not take any interest in it? I don't think I've ever asked my parents where they were when JFK was shot. I don't see any way out of the mess we are in right now...
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I am working on my clerkship cover letter, and of course my printer has to run out of ink, after the stores all close. Grrrr. And of course the Internal Critic is running her mouth, telling me, "you're just like your father, always doing things at the last minute, you'll never get this done or in on time, you'll never get a clerkship, why don't you just give up now...."

GRRR!!! Shaddup already, Critic! I need Admiral Bob's laser to shoot her through the breastbone, and put her out of her misery for good...(insert scene of an angry woman shooting a humanoid crab as large as she is, with a high-pitched, soft whiny, irritating voice, with a laser. A powerful laser. I wish I could draw so that I could draw these things out.)

So my friend from college calmed down, after I told him:

1) I'm glad that I can write a flawed character, who's not a Mary-Sue;
2) Go check out FA and ff.net, as well as witchfics.org, restrictedsection.org, and adultfanfiction.net, and see what other people are writing. My stuff is quite tame in comparison.
3) Writing romance novels might help pay off the loans from undergrad...

He replied:
1) ok, if you're trying to write a flawed character, I can live with her having a crush on Snape when she was 11 and he was 17, being annoyingly passive-aggressive, etc.;
2) proposed all sorts of weird scenarios, some of which I haven't seen before;
3) said that maybe he could write his own fan book.

He's the only person who's ever said that Emmy Vector is annoyingly passive-aggressive. Maybe other people find her to be so as well, and no one's told me that yet.

Sigh. And I'm thinking now that I post too much, that I should try to cut myself down to just one LJ post/day, but then it seems that I always have something else to say. As the Old Man said when I showed him a catalog advertising a lawyer squeeze doll once, "They have the thing set up all backwards. Instead of 'squeeze the lawyer to get him to talk,' it should work as 'squeeze the lawyer to get him to stop talking.'"

I found about 40+ potential sources for the Comment Topic today. I sent the advisors an email telling them this, and that I'd started to try to separate out things a bit and still finding materials, but nothing exactly duplicating what I want to write about, and one advisor replied, "Sounds like you're making good progress."

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