Today is the day! Zac finally received his care package, so later today after the post office on base opens, he's going to go pick it up and Skype me when he gets back before he opens it so I can watch! :) I'm so excited for this, it took a week and three days to get there, so I know for future reference, I should err on the side of a two week delivery instead of hoping that it gets there in a week.
In the meantime, while I wait for this later this evening, an update on Pitt's bomb threats. There have probably been over 50 at this point, I stopped counting after there were some on Easter. So they've been sending us all of the ENS text messages and evacuating every threatened building every single time (some of them are in dorms, too, in the middle of the night!!) and they sweep it with police and dogs. They haven't found any sign of any kind of explosives thus far and there is now a $50,000 reward for anyone coming forward with information that leads to an arrest and conviction. Pretty sizable reward. Now, they've restricted access to the buildings. Only Pitt students and faculty with a valid Pitt I.D. can get into the class buildings and dorms through one point of entry and exiting and every I.D. is being checked and, if you're carrying a bag, they search it. So I feel much more comfortable considering they're checking everything now. I really wasn't concerned about an actual bomb being found, what I'm concerned about is that they're monitoring where we're evacuated to and going to take a gun into those places and open fire. Or that they'd just bring in a gun and shoot everyone in one of the threatened buildings while we're being evacuated. Either way, I was more concerned about a gun. Now that they're checking all bags and everything, I have what is probably a false sense of security, but a sense of security at that.
Continuing from there, I just stumbled across a blog on here about the bomb threats and it's analyzing the patterns and everything and it was going through dates of significance. Now, I've already been comparing this to the Virginia Tech shooting from years ago. Their bomb threats didn't go public and they went on for a couple of months and escalated, just like ours are, and then the guy shot up his school. This is my concern. I don't think there are any explosives. I think it's part of the game this person/people is/are playing. Anyways, so in addition to the analyses of information and patterns and speculation, there were these dates of significance listed. Obviously, Easter is a date of significance and nothing horrific happened except a regular slew of bomb threats, but this past weekend was the first one where there were any threats over the weekend. There was an escalation, but no real violence. The next significant date is April 16; the anniversary of the tragedy of Virginia Tech. That part makes me a bit nervous, considering all of the speculation on the similarities between our schools right now. After that is April 20, which is the anniversary of the Columbine shooting and also Hitler's birthday (could be some crazy S.O.B.) and finally, April 22 which is Earth Day. So. That's the speculation of these threats as of late; very interesting. here's the link to the blog if you're interested in reading everything for yourself. I didn't even scratch the surface, here, just some of the stuff that confirms my fears... http://stopthepittbombthreats.blogspot.com/
Update: he received his package! :D That has to be one of the greatest feelings in the whole world right now, I am so excited that he finally got it. For him, it was two days after Easter, but for me it was only one, so that's pretty on target! He had to cut it open with keys because I wrapped it so many times with the packing tape. I didn't want it to pop open! Well, he put on one of the mustaches right away :) And he told me "Holy shit, that's a lot of candy". He went through all of the pictures and told me which vouchers he was going to use first and saw the steak lollipop and tried to hide The Princess Bride so his friends wouldn't find it when they were hanging out with him :) He looked like he was going to cry... I'm just so happy that he liked everything so much! I was worried some of the silly things he'd find dumb because he couldn't really use them, but he liked them. And he put the picture that I had in a frame already for him right next to his bed. All in all, I think (hope) I made his lonely Easter better. The poor thing was sick as a dog with a stomach virus and was miserable all weekend. I wanted so badly to be able to take care of him... it's really the worst feeling in the world, not being able to take care of my man like I should be able to do.
Another thing we got to talk about was my moving out there. And now that I don't have to worry about how I'm going to pay for this semester anymore, I can really begin to relax and enjoy my time I have left in Pennsylvania before I go out to California to be with him once he returns from this deployment. I've already started the move out of my apartment so that when it's time for me to get out, all I have left is my mattress and dresser and maybe some end tables, but really the only big things that'll be left will be the former two.
Since my thoughts are not collected enough yet to make good sense in this blog, I'm going to get back to cleaning my room and packing up things I don't need. There are a lot of options I need to sort through right now and he already told me he wanted me to take care of it, so we'll see how my decision comes out. I need to write it all down... until next time, fellow bloggers.
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