what was that I was saying yesterday about my scary city?

Just received an alert from the campus police telling everybody that there is "police activity" at an address smack in the middle of campus and to please avoid the area until further notice.  No local news yet, but I hear a helicopter now so perhaps we will know something soon.  Or blow up, one or the other.

My trusty earbuds partially died this morning.  I've had them for at least three and probably closer to four years, which for me is a veritable record of headphone survival.  Now I must wait for new ones to come in the mail.  Will I be more bothered by no music at all, or by listening to it in one ear only?  My brain still feels lopsided from this morning's commute.  I suppose I could dig up the cruddy earbuds that came with my mp3 player but that might be even worse than one earful of the good ones.

Oh hey there's another chopper.  And WHDH says "SWAT teams looking for man on Boston University campus."  Whee!
 

stay sick

Rest in pieces, Lux, I know you wouldn't have it any other way.  I raise a glass in mistresshellena's direction, and towards all you other people I met for the first time in a blizzard on Lansdowne Street all those years ago...