On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 15:00:39 -0800, kalanamak >
wrote:

>I was cooking dinner at my BF's house when his roomate (we were all
>college students) came running in terrifically excited and shouted YOU
>WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER WHERE YOU WERE STANDING AT THIS MOMENT. I asked why
>and she shouted JOHN LENNON IS DEAD. My thoughts were "so what".
>
>So, I spent today asking people at work (there are 2000 of us) where
>they were when they heard the news and it fell into three catagories: in
>the country of their birth (Denmark, India, Korea, etc), in their
>parents living room because they were just 6, or "partying" in a
>trailer, an apartment or a run down place in the woods. The third
>catagory was the winner. So, this is who works for the State: young
>people, furriners, and the possibly now clean and sober.
>
>Obfood: at a potluck at lunch someone brought in "Robert Redford", a
>pudding in a pie crust, laced with walnuts, chocolate sauce and whipped
>cream. I told the man next to me "if this is Robert Redford, I prefer
>Paul Newman".
>blacksalt
>Imagine there's no Velveeta

I remember exactly where I was. I was sitting in my bed in the first
house I'd ever rented working on a term paper and listening to the
radio.

Tracy R.