I was driving to work with a student from my neighborhood when I heard on the radio that there had been a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. My initial reaction was: What, again? (I was remembering the terrorist attack in 1993.) When I got to work, everyone wanted to watch the news on TV, but the school didn't have cable and there's no TV reception here without it. The Internet was overwhelmed by people looking for information, so it was pretty much frozen. All the teachers wanted to check radios out from the library, but we were out. We wound up getting updates from the principal, who had a radio in his office.

One of my uncles was working for the Pentagon at the time, so we were worried that he was in the part hit by the plane until my aunt called and told us he was on vacation in Europe and was fine.

"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”

- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland