When I found out the name of a student who had been shot yesterday at Virginia Tech the first thing I did was to look him up on Facebook. There was he was. I've done the same about two times this past year. It's another reminder that someone is gone from the world. A technological, modern reminder.

I am hoping that no one gets any crazy ideas as I sit in lecture today. It makes me mad that someone thinks he has the right to take lives like that and then he kills himself to get out of it. I wished he was still alive. I would have loved to know what was going through his mind.

I don't know anyone who went to that school but lots of people here do, and our school is just as prone to a shooting as theirs was. It could have been us, it could have been a lot of people, and I suspect others will try and break the deadliest shooting record at all of our expense.