so they actually did it. i was surprised, for some reason i kept thinking that there would be some last-minute pardon or something. it didn't exactly meake sense to think that, but i did nonetheless.
the obvious question is whether i thought it was justifiable. should mcveigh have been executed? i wish i had a concrete answer. on one hand, i reacted very strongly to dead man walking and thought that i might have come up with a stance on the death penalty issue. meeting and listening to sister helen prejean solidified that. but once the initial shock went away, i was left without any answers. i don't know how i feel about the issue as a whole. do i think mcveigh deserved it? yes. do i think the punishment led him to feel any remorse? doesn't appear to be the case.
it was surreal, though. there i was, sitting in my room in front of the tv and waiting to hear that a man was dead. millions of people were doing the same thing--waiting to hear that one person had been killed. i know what he did was horrible, and i know that people wanted to know that he had been punished, but to step back and think about how much attention was being paid to him when he died--he wanted attention, and he got it. it makes it interesting to be a future member of the press when things like this happen. to think about being one of a crowd of journalists desperately scurrying around for a sound byte...but it's what i want to do with my life, odd as it may sound.

i met with joanne this morning. my last day at user support will be friday. she was great, didn't make me feel like a heinous bitch for leaving, which i was worried about.
so i'll be out of here around 8 p.m. friday.