I was planning to blog about Arthur, our guest last week, whom we saw off at the train station just a little over an hour ago. (That post will appear a bit later.) As I was sitting down to write, our phone rang. The caller was my sister-in-law, Kathy, who is married to Twila's brother, Dan. Dan is a vice-provost at the University of Texas - if you read the news, you can probably guess where this is headed, but not how close.
Kathy had just talked with Dan on the phone, and we were the first people she called, since she knows we're news hawks who would see the story as soon as it was broadcast. Dan was walking to the library this morning for a meeting with the provost. As he approached the door, a man wearing a ski mask and carrying an automatic weapon brushed past Dan. There was a guard at the library door, who looked like a deer in the headlights when he saw the gunman approaching. Fortunately, the intruder went into the library without shooting anyone. Dan told the guard to call the police.
We don't know the rest of the story yet, except for a report that the gunman shot himself.
You never know when real life is going to pop up. Very fortunately, 'life' is still the keyword, for us, at least.
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