I was living in NYC when that happened. On Staten Island. I think I remember waking up late and looking at the NY Times online or something and seeing a picture

I was living in NYC when that happened. On Staten Island. I think I remember waking up late and looking at the NY Times online or something and seeing a picture of the first tower with flames and smoke coming out of it. I found it a bit hard to believe, but was able to walk down the street about a block and could see the smoke and the top of the building from there. Coincidentally, this was not long after I had a temporary word processing job at Wachtell Lipton. One of the things I worked on there was reformatting a section of a massive World Trade Center lease document. For some reason I remember the supervisor asking me to have a smoke with her in the smoking room one day and casually asking what I thought about bin Laden or something. At the time, none of that seemed odd, but years later I heard some interesting theories. Another weird thing is that I had also recently gone for an interview for a SQL programming job in one of the WTC towers. Luckily they said that they could not sell my resume to their boss even though they believed I could do the job (I was referred by a technical night class where I had demonstrated a lot of pre-existing knowledge and skills).