we're all in the club now

but it's a club I wish didn't even exist.

TW for school shooting related content. I originally wrote this on April 16th of 2021, reflecting on the shooting at Virginia Tech on that day 2007, when I was a sophomore barely passing Econ 101. After yesterdays school shooting in Nashville, I dug this up and was horrified to find that it needed hardly any editing to make it relevant 2 years later. I’ve rewritten large sections of it, leaving out some of my more personal reflections: on a friend who was a witness, on a friend who was killed, on what it means to look at a picture of the friend who died and realize she looks so young and I feel so old and so many others have died since then. I’ll probably share more of that personal stuff later but for now I want to focus on our collective rage and use it to fuel action. Join me.

Re:Re:Re:Re: I’m alive.

I was thinking recently about what the Virginia Tech shooting on April 16th, 2007 would have been like in today’s social media / internet world. We DID obviously have the internet and e…