Enough!

[xp_roulette]

Okay, ladies and gentlemen, look out the window will you? Go ahead an look. You see that? That's the rest of the world, the world is spinning, the world is going on with it's daily life. Maybe we should too.

I mean, around here, everyone's flailing and "oh noes!-ing" around because of some mutant wackjobs. Mutant wackjobs? Guys, for us, that's THURSDAY.

ENOUGH ALREADY. They didn't kill us, they didn't even dent us (which I keep hearing over and over and OVER) so fine, pick up and move ON. Stare at your navel long enough and you will shove your head up your own ass.

Comments

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

Actually, Jennie, if I can make a suggestion... when I get back, come and talk to me? If this is frustrating you, it might actually help to see just what Elpis, at least, has done to respond. We've got projects delayed, yeah, but not cancelled. We've held the line on other things, and come next week, we'll be able to start moving things forward again.

What you've seen is just what happens when people have stopped to take a breather and it's all come crashing down on them. I don't know what I'd do in a position where I wasn't able to respond like I have been doing - probably be even more frustrated than you. But the frustration catches up with us, too. It's just a different kind.

[x-siryn.livejournal.com]

If I'm reading her properly, showing her more about what is going on will make her even more shrill and irritating.

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

Look, all I know is that having to sit around and just watch the news, plus hear stuff second-hand from Tel Aviv, would have been driving me sixty different kinds of utterly bugshit insane (even without the personal connection), so I can sympathize. With the sentiment, if not her choice of words.

Looking back, I suppose I could have asked for some help for Rahne and Bobby and Juliette from the older students who might have wanted to feel like they were doing something more active... but then, that would have felt like disrupting their lives, too, and I don't know, I just haven't been thinking as clearly as I should this week, I suppose.

[x-legion.livejournal.com]

Terry's right. Like you said, everyone's going through the same things right now. The difference here is that Elpis was directly impacted. You, by nature, can all become directly involved. You can take action, seize control. So could most of the staff, in various ways.

The students are on the outside. Coming into volunteer groups sponsored by others can work, but some of them want to be more proactive. To help in a way that doesn't depend on the sufferance of what others will set up for them, and what they've been allowed to do. Some day, ideally, they'll graduate and move on to live their own lives outside the school. They want to start learning how to handle things for themselves. I know you're trying to give them a voice in the existing structure (and for some it'll even help), it's just that in some regards this is a no-win situation. Either way you go, some people will feel it's not enough.

Student-run organizations like HeliX, though . . .

[x-siryn.livejournal.com]

All right, so having a few more hours sleep and Bobby talking a bit of sense to me. No, I don't know why he's the one with the level head given all this but I'm just going to claim redheaded temper.

I think the whole point here is...just because it's traumatic for some people doesn't mean that it needs to be, should or must be for the rest of the mansion. You're upset, Rahne, Bobby and Angelo are upset. Amanda and Pete are upset. I'm upset.

But many of the students don't know Domino, Angelo is clearly okay and overworking is just what Elpis does. Why on earth should they be forced to care or help or anything? If they want to lead their lives like nothing else is happening, that's what they should do.

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

... I'm thinking at this point, Jennie doesn't really need to have this discussion continuing in her journal.

[x-siryn.livejournal.com]

Do I sound like I'm angry at her? I'm not. I was but like I said, Bobby talked sense into me.

Bad things happen. When it's personal, when you're in the middle of it, of course it sticks. When you're not, it's just an annoyance. That's reality. 1 person is a tragedy, 1000 people are a statistic.

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

No, I just think that the discussion's run its course. I understand Jennie's reaction, and I don't think she really needs to watch us dissect it.

[x-siryn.livejournal.com]

Oh, well in that case I'll shut up.

I have a paper to write anyway.

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

I thought you had your husband tied to the bed?

[x-siryn.livejournal.com]

That's just to keep him from escaping back to work.

At the moment.