.i know your part will go fine.

I'm writing this at work (just 15 more minutes).
Quickly minimizing the screen every few moments.
But a word:

Fuck everyone who said or jokes about New Yorkers "over reacted" to the pipe exploding.
I wasn't there. I was in teh subway when it happened but imagine this.
You live in New York.
You're in midtown (which is already crowded and chaotic on a normal day).
You're near a train station when you hear an explosion and see smoke rising from the ground and debris everywhere.
You remember what that paranoid guy at the Department of Homeland Security said.
Yeah, you're going to panic.
You're going to freak out for awhile.
And someone had a heart attack and died.

It's okay to panic.

I was at a co-workers place in TriBeCa. You could see everything from the roof. The entire island. And you turned around and saw the cranes at the WTC site. And you see planes all the time flying by. And yeah, you don't go into some sort of panic, but its scary.
The terrorists didn't win if I get a little paranoid about a couple of things. They don't care. It happens. I get scared. I get scared by bugs when I see them but I don't think they've won against my life and are controlling me. I don't stand there and think, "I'm not going to let you win".
It runs away and I forget about it.

And that's life.
So shut the fuck up anyone who says New Yorkers were over-reacting, especially if they are non-New Yorkers. You have no idea.