Crisis averted. Today I went to Safeway and bought toilet paper. Such is life.
Tonight I’m finally going to see Bandits. I know it’s probably not any sort of terrific movie, but it looks funny and entertaining and more importantly, it means that I am getting off campus. Tomorrow I have this huge desire to go dancing in San Francisco…I wonder if Emily would want to come? She keeps saying she knows of a great place to go. I dunno, I just want to go somewhere and forget about homework for a little while and shake my groove thing. Ha.
So apparently there is a “credible” threat to suspension bridges in California, which of course includes the Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. A few months ago the news would have seemed distant and disconnected from my life, but suddenly I live in the Bay Area and it’s very strange to think that something near me could be targeted. I mean, I don’t think anybody’s going to want to take out Stanford anytime soon, but I can’t imagine what would happen to this area if something happened to one of those bridges. Getting from one place to the other would be a nightmare. However, in some weird sense it’s nice to think that if someone DID manage to damage a bridge, the loss of life would be much less than in a skyscraper.