Today, after I somehow woke up for my 7:55 and made it through my two classes, I came back to my apartment and did the usual: sat in front of my computer and browsed at multiple Web sites.
All of a sudden, I receive a breaking news alert from NBC.com. It said a plane had crashed into an Austin building. Double click.
The NBC web site didn't have much information. The I remember I have to send an email, so I forget about the whole thing.
My stomach grumbles, it's time to eat. I make myself some food (ok, I microwave Amy's organic enchiladas--they're the best!) and I turn on the TV and change to channel to CNN.
BREAKING NEWS indeed. For the next hour, I went back and forth between my TV and computer to tweet about the incident and to find out more information.
My brother works in a public school, so I wasn't too worried, but I've passed by that building a million times and it felt strange seeing something tragic happen so close to home (well, my brother's home).
I called my brother--he answered. Hence, he was fine.
Then I hear about the United Airlines incident in Salt Lake City. And then I kept reading all of the headlines in the bottom the screen, from a killing in Germany to the death of a Mexican mayor, among many others. It was barely noon. 
The man who crashed the plane intentionally, Joe Stack, left a suicide note online.
I haven't read all of it, and I don't intend to.
What amazed me is how quickly this story unraveled. If only we could have known about his letter yesterday, somebody could have stopped him from taking his life and the lives of others.
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