Even now, I can't concentrate on my work; I wish I could go, and help out. I feel so useless sitting in an office doing such mundane work.

I feel your pain Olivia. Being an international company I'm processing orders for Arab countries. Israel and such. It's like work... slack... work... "what the? Damn fuckers." It's wierd, everybody has some hatred developed eventhough nothing is certain.

Some people here already gave blood. So I guess you can do your itsy bitsy part by doing that.

If I could, I would, but they won't take it. Last time I tried to give, they said no because I lived in England during the time they think Creutzfeldt-Jakobs disease and mad cow were running rampant. :(

I went to sign up for the bloodmobile they'll be having at the Dedmon Center. They were booked solid for everyday. I was disappointed at first, but I was glad to see so many people coming out to help. I'm going to keep trying...

Cruetzfeldt-Jakobs is very serious, but sence you are not dead by now I don't think there is anything to worry about. You can't kill the Staff, and if you show no signs by now you dont have it. Go give blood then drink a beer. It makes you feel real good.

They won't take it..I'm not going to lie on the form. They've got a certain date range for people who've lived there, and I fall into that category. I guess it doesn't matter, sounds like they're getting plenty of donors now anyway.

I got word that if you've had a tattoo within a year, you can't do it either. :)

doh!

Speaking of tattoos, one of our Operations guys got "911" tattooed on his lower back last night. Pretty extreme.

whoa...that's a little weird

Umm, okay. Is he also tying a bandana around his head and slinging machine-gun ammo around his shoulder, Rambo-style?

A little extreme...

Sheesh.

Word is out now that they've recovered 5 firefighters who were previously trapped. They managed to pile into an SUV in the rubble, which eventually got completely buried. Today the SUV was uncovered and the men inside were miraculously alive.

It's hardly exciting to say we found 5 out of a possible 5,000 (or more) who are feared dead. I suppose anything is better than nothing.

I went recently to donate plasma and to discover that I can never donate. Back in January 1998, I had a surgical procedure to repair ligaments that I completely tore upon a knee dislocation. The catch is this: I tore my MCL, Medial Meniscus, ACL and PCL and the surgeon used part of my patellular tendon for one ligagment and used animal ligaments on the rest. I was informed that although I may not get it but I am now risk for Creutzfeld Jakobs Disease (Mad Cow or Scrapies). Had I been informed before my surgery, I definitely would not have went through with the procedure. I was never warned about this and now its too late. I have been banned from all blood and plasma donation centers. I feel completely useless. I wanted to donate to benefit people not only for 9-11 but for sickly persons that need plasma for medical use. I also feel I have no rights at this point. But I feel I should have been informed about this too.