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[bk]

Well, you've read the notes, the notes did an impression of Rich Little doing an impression of shoes, and now it is time for you to post until the impressionistic cows come home.

[bk]

And the word of the day is: HEIGHT!

[George]

~~~Vibes for BK's Modern Major Miracle, Just Because!!~~~

[George]

Wordle 814 4/6

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[elmore3003]

Good morning, all!

[elmore3003]

Rainy days and Mondays don't always make me cry, but it's also 9/11 and I know, before the day is out, that I will weep for the dead and mourn the passage of twenty-two years.

[elmore3003]

I had a very busy day yesterday between the ballet's Charleston and the work on Once Upon a Mattress. By 8:00pm I was ready for bed, and by 8:45 I was asleep. I slept rather well with my faithful boy Thatch, although Stella showed up some time after midnight for a few hugs and pets.

[elmore3003]

Twenty-two years ago today, I was in London, recording Victor Herbert's The Lady of the Slipper with John McGlinn, who after three months in London had gone completely bonkers. At that point, I doubt there wasn't anyone on the project he hadn't driven to the point of resigning. Alison Fox, recently retired from EMI, was our recording scheduler and manager. She walked out in frustration at least once a week.

I flew to London on Sunday, Sept. 9. I cannot remember the name of the 4-star hotel, but it was a lovely place to stay, and I cannot remember now if we began recording on Sept. 10 or the following Tuesday. I only remember now the horror of that Tuesday. Watching the events in Manhattan unfold on a small TV in the manager's office at Henry Wood Hall was much like watching via security camera your house bein pilfered and then destroyed.

[elmore3003]

That night my brother and Lady Macbeth called to ask me if I knew what had happened in Manhattan. Duh! I was in London, not on the moon.

[elmore3003]

I wasn't scheduled to return to NYC until some time around Sept. 26, but in 9/12 I didn't kow if I would ever get home or not. While many in the cast, crew, and production staff were worried about getting back to the States, we were fortunate that John McGlinn's insistence on making the entire horrifying situation all about him made things easier for the rest of us.

[elmore3003]

I later learned that my friend Matthew's former girlfriend Myra, whom I knew slightly, was on the plane from Boston that crashed into the Trade Center. They had stopped living together around 17 years earlier, but they remained friends and he was still her beneficiary.

[elmore3003]

DR vixmom, thanks for the wonderful tale of your latest NYC adventure. I want to go to that restaurant.

[John G.]

Good morning, all.

[John G.]

The mornings are staying darker longer.

[John G.]

Keeps the house a little cooler.

[vixmom]

I was going to a closing in our remote office that morning. It was really another law firm that our firm paid a stipend monthly so we could have our firm name on the door and have use of the conference room.

[vixmom]

I was listening to a book on tape in the car, and when I arrived at the firm around 915 for my 930 closing all the employees there were gathered together in the boss’ office.

[vixmom]

Presuming they were in a meeting, I went about setting things up for my closing.

[vixmom]

Then the people started drifting in for the closing, everyone of them looking shell shocked.

I made a little joke about cheering up they were getting a beautiful new home and one of them turned to me and said, “ you haven’t heard , have you?”

[vixmom]

Then he told me

[vixmom]

The closing still went on, because we were all there and didn’t know what else to do.

[vixmom]

But I spent a good part of it trying to raise Vixdad on the phone

[vixmom]

I finally, did assuring myself he was safe, but traumatized, having a clear view of the towers from his office window on 14th and 8th 

[vixmom]

It was hours later when we were finally able to track down my brother, who was supposed to be in the Towers that morning.

[vixmom]

They shutdown the roads westward to all cars except first responders.

[vixmom]

I called into my office , just at the Queens border to ask what to do and they told me  to go home, they had closed and were sending everyone home

[vixmom]

I went to the school, and collected the 8 year old Vixter.

[vixmom]

We didn’t turn the tv on in the house for at least a week

[vixmom]

It is a grey rainy day out here today

[vixmom]

When I woke up at 7 I thought it was still night , it was that dark in the bedroom