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Birthday
• 1965-06-05
Gender
• Female
Location
• The Edge of Sanity
Member Since
• 2004-05-11
Occupation
• Freestyle lunacy
Real Name
• Secret, but I'll give you a hint: it has 2 A's & 2 N's in it.

Personal

Achievements
• a couple college degrees; MOS Certification; CIW Associate & Professional certification; Master CIW Designer certification
Anime Fan Since
• the 20th century
Favorite Anime
• FullMetal Alchemist, Trigun, Rurouni Kenshin, InuYasha, Cowboy Bebop, Ranma 1/2
Goals
• Getting a job that will support my bad anime/manga and latte habits!
Hobbies
• Drawing, writing, learning Ancient Greek, learning Japanese, panicking
Talents
• Multitasking at a cosmic level. Can sing along with the 4th Movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony...in German!

myOtaku.com: KitsuneTsuki

Saturday, September 11, 2004

Why I won't go to a mall on September 11.

Three years ago today I was the assistant manager at a bookstore in the mall in Sioux City. I had been on vacation and it was my first day back. The manager went on vacation that day and didn't leave me any notes about anything in the store and it was a rather confusing morning. The calendar kiosk was set up the day before and things weren't quite right there as well. I was scheduled to work with the biggest airhead on the staff. I was trying to get things figured out when the phone rang and it was one gal that would be considered next in line in the management heirarchy. She was all panicky as she said an airplane had just hit one of the towers of the World Trade Center. She is not the type of person that gets panicky. Really. She was saying stuff like, "It's world war three!" I was not paying close attention to what she was saying and snapped back that I was having enough of a crisis in the store. After we got the store open I went to the bank. The mall entrance that was closest to the bank had a TV store right next to it. I didn't pay attention to the TVs as I left the mall to go over to the bank. As I got back to the mall, I stopped to look at the TVs as I passed. The second tower was hit just as I stopped. I stopped by the kiosk and told my Mom what happened. "It's bad, Mom," I said...and went back to the store. The girl I was working with had made one sale while I was gone. I told her what happened.
She was shocked, but I don't really know how she felt about it. A half hour after the store was opened, the announcement came over the mall P.A. system that due to the events of the morning, the mall would be closing. We were out of there around 11:00 a.m. My Mom & I drove back home. Things were just not the same after that.

The following year, without even asking for the day off, the new manager actually gave me the day off. Last year, I was working over in Omaha. Today I went to the zoo with my brother.

If he hadn't come down, I would probably have gone to the library and to the Western Trails center or to Lake Manawa. Anything but a mall. I have to be outside or doing something else.

I also go against the "norm" by not wearing red, white and blue. I wear black. It's not that I'm "anti-American." It's just that I'd rather show respect for all that was lost in the attacks: lives, families, trust, open-mindedness.

And so, in closing, I wish you all health and happiness. Keep an open mind....but not so open that your brain falls out.

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