I too am shocked that as I walk around not everyone around me looks like a freaking zombie; which is how i feel right now.

On campus, right in the financial district (classes were cancelled yesterday) students were laughing and playing hacky sack and flirting as usual...I had my two classes write for twenty minutes about a moment when something changed; half of them wrote about yesterday. They read their pieces aloud; some of them cried and could not finish (even the boys which surprised me). I told them I was not sure I was going to be an effective teacher in the way I want to be, at least for a while; but I would try, and be there for them if they needed to talk.