on days like today, a girl's thoughts turn to the Big Picture, especially if that girl is a professor at a technology university

. . .where the students, from one of whom said girl just received word a firearm has been confiscated today, have the reputation for being "social misfits"

• if everyone is a misfit, is no one a misfit? (a comforting thought)
  
• what if bush's initial response had been, "before we rush to discussion about universal access to adequate mental health care. . . "?
• is the national discourse going to turn to some square-peg-in-round-hole question about how do we keep immigrants away from guns?
• i remember when my freshmen year roommate's "boyfriend"* brought a gun to campus and waved it around outside our dorm one morning. we roomies all filled out police reports. huh.
  
• chad once told me that, several years ago, one of his student's final papers revealed that he (the student) had been carrying a gun with him to campus every day all along.
  
• should i buy a gun and bring it to campus?

*later it was revealed that "pimp" would be a more accurate designation.