The campus is swamped with military personnel in BDU's today. Checking car tags and IDs, making sure no one who's not supposed to be here gets in. All of the gates except for the one main entrance are closed and locked. Some phone lines may still be down because they were routed through the Pentagon.

Yesterday was scary. I sat at home in the morning and was eating breakfast, watching the Today show, when the second plane hit live on TV.

It took a long time to click that the US was being attacked by terrorists. That lots of people were now dead. Even more injured.

I got to school about 5 minutes before it was evacuated. Walked into the middle of chaos. People running around, trying cell phones because all of the university phones were down. We, being a military institution, may be a target.

I've never been evacuated from somewhere before.

And then home to watch it all over and over and over again on the news. Driving around Rockville to find a Red Cross Center open and able to take blood donations. Awed by the 2 hour or more waiting lines.

I had nightmares last night. I'm sure I wasn't the only one.

And today I'm supposed to sit here and plan out the rest of my week. Think about what I want to say at the next grad ed meeting. Plan a grad student meeting. Take pictures of my immuno slides.

Too weird.