Month: June 2007

This will probably be my last post ever. I’m stuck at the top of the Volen building. It’s a 5 story building, and the only graveyards nearby are small ones. Lucky the hospital went mostly defunct a few years ago. I’ve got the stairwells jammed up tight with every desk and coat rack and filing cabinet I could muscle over. I was able to rig the emergency stop on one of the two elevators. the other one is still down at the end of the hall, and I’m trying to find a way onto the roof. I hope their brains are so far gone that they can’t figure out how to use the elevator, but my hopes are starting to dwindle. There weren’t that many on campus at first, but now every tim I look out the windows I see more of them crawling around. There’s dozens of them all around the plaza below, and there’s no way I can make it to my car now. No weapon up here in the labs, so I’m wielding a tennis racket right now. Not much up here to help out. Found a Brita in the department fridge, so I’ve got clean water for now, so long as the Quabbin keeps flowing into the building. I’ve got maybe 2 days of food if I steal other people’s food out of the fridges (they won’t need it). Maybe three if I dare going down and breaking into the vending machine.

Doesn’t seem like it’ll come to that. I hope they either find out what happened and stat fixing this shit before then, or more likely, they’ll batter down the braces I have holding the downstairs doors shut and get to me. I saw them rip apart a woman whoran screaming from the library. I keep seeing myself that way. I can still see the pile of gore and blood. I’m not hungry anymore. Maybe I’ll make it 4 days.

With all of our military overseas, we should’ve seen something like this. I heard rumors that it was a bioterrorist attack from eastern europe. If so, it’s gotten loose, because I heard they were seeing this in london, prague, and beijing.

Never thought I’d die before I hit 30.

A., I’m sorry.

The last time I saw the internet ‘pipes’ this full was 9/11. Back then when I couldn’t get to any sites I went around the corner to see the news reports on the TV, and listened to streaming BBC to get coverage. Now there’s no TV. I don’t know why I’m posting this now, except that I hope someone survives and sees it. I haven’t seen one of them myself yet, and my only hope at this point is that I don’t. I can’t get to any of the regular news outlets, but at this point, everyone is blogging about it, and some people have posted pictures. One guy set up a webcam showing the masses somewhere in NYC, but that went offline a few minutes ago. The CDC has posted a ‘more information coming’ notice across their web page, but no one yet knows what’s causing all the dead to come back and attack everyone around them. None of the pictures are clear, but if you see someone looking kind of grey, and frothing at the mouth, run as fast and as far as you can.  If they kill you, you become one of them.

I’ve locked myself into an unused office here in the basement, and the rest of the building seems to have cleared out. In a few minutes I’m going to try to make a break for it. It’s a good thing it is summer, and summer school hasn’t started up yet; there aren’t a lot of people on campus, which is probably slowing the spread here. If I can get to my car without encountering any of them, I should be able to get away. I’ll have to stay off the highways, they’re probably a traffic jam by now. I don’t know if I should go back to Framingham or just clear out. I better stop back and get a few things loaded up, see if A. is still there, or if she already grabbed the cats and fled.

If any of you survive…. if any of us survive…. and if any of you read this.. Call me. I hope the cell phone towers will still be up, and I’ll keep my phone charged as long as I can get gas into the car or plug into an outlet somewhere. I’m going to head for the quiet parts of the western end of the state, maybe a state park. I’ll take the laptop, but may not have access.

And if we don’t survive…. I love you all.

Had a good weekend. Reorganized the paperbacks. Or maybe, organized. Most fit on the shelves, and are now findable in some logical order. Cleaned the desk at work. (Technically not part of the weekend, but it was close of the day Friday). Saw Pirates 3. Mixed feelings there. Did anyone else look at the scene where Jack is talking to the pirate lords, and he puts his hands on the shoulders of the Japanese (?) pirate woman, and think: “Angela Merkel, President Bush, bad idea, no touchy!”? Saturday was rainy and sleepy. Sunday there was strawberry picking. 15 pounds of strawberry picking. If you come over in the next week, there should be fresh strawberries available. After that, jam. And now I’m sitting back with a bag of popcorn, and watching the liveblogging of today’s Apple WWDC Keynote. Good stuff.

Just a reminder, that if you’ve nothing better going on tonight, you should come to http://noneabove.org/sf/ at 8pm. Great music, concessions, casual fun, and requires very little on your part beyond being there. I’ll be there either way, but the more, the merrier!