hermionesviolin: Boston skyline at sunset with the word "Boston" at the top (Boston)
I went to bed at like 10:15 last night, and I guess stuff started happening soon after? [citation: Reuters]

Checking the Internet over breakfast this morning, Davis Square LiveJournal informed me that the MBTA was shut down, and I thought, "Okay, I wasn't planning on biking to work this morning, but I will," and then Gita and Ian posted on facebook about Cambridge etc. being shut down -- at which point I actually checked my work email. (Spoiler alert: campus is shut down today, as is all of Harvard.)

Watertown's on lockdown, as are all the immediately adjacent cities/towns (Cambridge, Allston-Brighton, Newton, Waltham, Belmont [WGBH], plus Brookline [WHDH] and then hey, they extended it to the entire city of Boston -- Allston-Brighton are technically "neighborhoods" of Boston, rather than their own cities/towns). Somerville's in between me and Cambridge, but still, disinclined to leave the house until there's an all-clear...

I felt like the Onion was exaggerating a little when I read this earlier this week, but...
hermionesviolin: Boston skyline at sunset with the word "Boston" at the top (Boston)
For months I've been drafting LJ update posts and not finishing them, but as many of you know, there were explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon this afternoon, so continued radio silence seemed inappropriate.

I'm at work in Cambridge (no, the entire metro area does not get Marathon Monday off) and at 3:07 and 3:08pm, 2 of my friends Tweeted -- "Oh shit. Boston twitterverse, please be okay DDDD:" and "FUCK FUCK FUCK. Boston people please check in? Oh my god." I was confused, and GoogleNews'ing "Boston" just got me Boston Marathon race winners etc. People quickly responded to my confusion, and my Twitter feed started filling up.

I am my mother's marshmallow daughter, but I'm also often a misanthropic sociopath, so I was a little surprised that I felt rocked and sometimes even teary reading some of the stuff.

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