Tough Day

Today has been a tough day.  I wore my orange proudly to work in anticipation of the football game and ended up glad that I wore it for support.   A colleague asked me if I'd heard and I had no idea what he was talking about.  When he told me I  thought he was joking, even though that is definitely not a topic you joke about.  How could this happen again?  At OSU?  In the basketball program?  It had to be a joke.  One check on News 9 OKC, showed that it wasn't.  I was trying not to think about it, because really it doesn't have anything to do with me. Then I came to my planning period and turned on my cell phone.  I had bing after bing of texts and voicemails with people telling me they were thinking about me today.  Thank you.  Two people said it in a great way-"Hard for you to hear"  and "takes you back to that time."  It does.  My reaction today was the same as it was 10 years ago.  This could not have happened.  And now I have to add again.  Ten years ago I was a freshmen in college who had a stellar job working with the great people of Cowboy basketball.  On Jan 27 I lost seven friends in a plane crash.    So thanks for the thoughts, they are appreciated.  To my Cowboy basketball fam (Beth I think you are prob the only one that reads this)  I have been thinking about you today too.  I know it was hard to hear and took you back.  Today there is some freshmen that works for Cowgirl basketball and is about to go through a roller coaster that no one should have to ride.  Send all those thoughts and prayers to the Cowgirl basketball staff and family of the four who died.  They are going to need it, more than anyone could know.