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I sort of feel like I SHOULD make one of those "obligatory reaction to Hurricane Katrina" posts I keep seeing, but ... honestly, I don't really know what to say. When my mom first told me they were moving people to the Astrodome in Houston, it didn't quite click with me that it meant that's because the city was underwater. To be really wanky, it's a lot like my reaction to 9/11 -- when I first heard the news, it totally went over my head, and the impact of what was being SAID took a good long moment to sink in. I have to take a few minutes to comprehend when something, well, EPIC like this happens.

I mean, this is the sort of thing you read about in books -- the sudden disappearence of an entire city. Even with all the forewarnings, at least for the common layman like myself, it just was sort of -- boom! It happened.

But the saddest thing is, part of me still remembers joking about it with friends before the hurricane touched down, because yes! It's a hurricane, and it will probably cause damage, but humans are resistant: they'll find a way to rebuild and things will be a bit shaky, but not necessarily ... this.

Now I keep seeing all the posts on my flist and clicking the articles with this sort of sick fascination. And at the same time, in my every day life, things just progress, as they always do. I go to work, I hang out with my friends, I have petty annoyances and concerns, and the whole thing is just damn surreal.

Anyway. That's my blip on the radar for now. Back to radio silence with occasional ficcage.

[fic][Fullmetal Alchemist] "farrago" (Kimberly-centric; for <lj site="livejournal.com" user="maho_ki

As I mentioned before, radio silence occasionally broken by fic, whut. Kimberly is freaktastically hard to write, ye gods and fishes.


farrago
Fullmetal Alchemist
Kimberly-centric, with all (?) accompanying warnings.
881 words
For mahow_kiwi. I hope to god it's somewhat readable. 8D

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