This morning on twitter I replied to a 9/11 related memory with a short memory of mine own. I said "@llanerrr I was in 5th grade and we saw the smoke and thought it was rain clouds, we didn't want to watch Matilda or 101 Dalmatians again." I didn't think that that short synopsis of that day for me could be confusing, because of course it made sense to me. But of course it did lead to confusion and I had to explain that Matilda, 101 Dalmatians, Goerge and the Giant Peach and other associated movies were the movies of choice when we denied recess due to weather. By the 5th grade, most of us had seen all those movies from beginning to end about 50 times at least, so the thought of having another recess taken away from us by mother nature was a little hard to bare.
Retelling the emotions that class 5-308 felt in the moment when we first saw the smoke makes me want to know what other's reactions were. As we approach the 10 year mark I am seriously considering starting a project to catalog the reactions of ordinary people, and not just Americans but internationals too. I think 9/11 was an event that everyone can remember where they were and what they were doing as if it were yesterday. I know that I'm one of them.
Onto a little more of a cheerful subject. I am an avid reader of a blog called the Sartorialist: thesartorialist.blogspot.com if you're interested. There people in the fashion world take pictures of everyday people that they feel have good or quirky fashion sense. I'm not one for fashion, but I do appreciate the pictures they take and the care with which they do so. In that same vein then I have started a little pet project called The University List : theulist.blogspot.com if you are so inclined again. Following the same model of the Sartorialist, I, and hopefully YOU and some friends of mine at other colleges and universities, take pictures of my fellow F&Mers and then I describe in a few sentences why I did so. Hopefully I can get this grow to other campuses around the country (and the world) but for now I'm content to go it alone...but I won't be for long :)
I write this post from the Innovation Zone in the basement of the Harris Government Center on the campus of Franklin and Marshall College.
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