"First Day of Classes!" ... or "Murderer On the Loose At Tech"

Yup, the title of this post just about covers things. I was somewhat excited and looking forward to attending class today--first class at 11 on Mondays, not bad. But, of course, I didn't actually get to attend, and won't be able to go to, any classes today. Bummer... sorta.

Well, the reason as to why classes all over Virginia Tech are cancelled is the second title to today's post. There's a guy who escaped from prison who has, since running off, killed a number of people already. Not cool. Thus the whole campus is closed--except for food, thankfully--and us students are highly encouraged to stay in our dorms. But I'm a bit hungry, so I may get going in a bit to grab some food (yes, the same food that I bragged about in my previous post... still awesome).

While it is a bit annoying that classes were cancelled--I really wanted to know what they'd be about and who was in them...--at least I get to have an extended weekend.

*ghetto edit* (I'll explain what that is in a bit)
So yeah, they caught the guy. Chances are if you watch the news--it was on CNN--or just read the newspaper that you can hear all about it. They had told us to not leave our dorms, but really for a lot of people it wasn't a big deal. For example, my roommate had gone to his first class at Squires Student Center, where moments later there was a reported "spotting" of the guy, but was evacuated out halfway through. Funny enough, again, if you had watched CNN, he actually was on tv for a few seconds in the shots where the whole building was cleared. However, finally getting back to my point, even though he had been "at the scene," John never really freaked out. When we went to get food he was cool with it. Hell, after food we went outside and played some frisbee, eventually getting into this huge--literally an hour and a half of it--game of ultimate frisbee. At the time none of use knew if the guy had been caught yet, but we were all outside enjoying ourselves... blissfully unaware of the danger that didn't appear.

Now, I don't mean to make it sound like everything was happy nilly (wow... that's probably one of the worst expressions that I've ever used), far from it actually. Most people weren't talking about the two cops who had been shot, but obviously it was on everyone's mind. The guy was armed and dangerous, which was why a few of the people I know down here were a bit scared to leave their dorms. Thankfully he's been caught and classes can (hopefully... I think) go on as scheduled.

So, these four days at Tech have been filled with a lot of interesting events. There've been the "normal" moving-in things, adjusting to college life and such, and then things like the escaped prisoner. Hehe, then just two days ago, during the first lightning storm I've been through here, the power went out for a good chunk of the dorms. Fun times, neh?

Well, I'm out, it's been another long day, and I have to get up somewhat early tomorrow, so I'll be seeing you all later. Bai bai!

PS: Oh, right. Ghetto edit. Basically, I am so ADD at times that I just leave posts half-written (this one I left in the middle of a sentence actually). What I'll do is just save the post as a "draft"--nifty little Blogger feature--and just get back to it later. There are times that I have three or four of those half-written posts.. go me! But yeah, when I want to work on them I just click edit and then I can publish the posts afterwards. That's what I did for this one, wrote some then later in the day finished it up.