Run Fail.

So there I was, about to go out for a much needed run in the desert to help cleanse my head and I get a phone call from work. The phone call pretty much says everyone living in Maadi is being told to take the early ride home, stay home, and stay put. Dangit, what to do. At first we think about ignoring it, because if we had received the phone call 15 minutes later we would have already been in the desert.

But then about 5 minutes later a follow up phone call: a police officer may have shot and killed someone in Maadi. Hrm.. that probably isn't going to play out well. So we bailed and went home. A quick hunt on google turns this up. It's impressive how fast news gets around here. I'm not quite sure when the video was taken, but comments have only been going for an hour.  Twitter is all over it and it's already on Ahram (an Egyptian paper). The other scary thing is a buddy & I had just gone running through this very circle yesterday morning around 6:30am.

When I went by CAC to meet up with some runners there were tons of people out painting the sidewalks. They even had a big pile of brooms and looked like they were organizing to clean up the neighborhood. Did they already know about this and not care?  If they don't know about it, what will happen? Maybe it'll be nothing. Maybe it'll be something. Who knows.

Ugh. I was really looking forward to going for a run today.