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Sunday, November 24th, 2002 04:55 am
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NNNNNNGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

It's quarter to five in the morning. 15-25 minutes ago, I woke up to an odd noise. After a little thinking, I realized it was a fire alarm. I managed to find my bathrobe, grabbed my keys, and headed outside, knocking on residents' doors as I went. I got outside and it had been snowing lightly for the past 2 hours or so, putting an end to about three weeks of Indian Summer.

Since I was wearing only a bathrobe, my feet were FUCKING FREEZING. Holy Zarquon! It was all I could do to squelch the pain long enough to make sure people stayed away from the building, which fortunately was not on fire. Not sure where or why it went off yet.

To top things off, here's my night up to that point:

Until midnight, I was trying to do homework with a nonfunctioning brain. No progress. Blah.
Midnight. Decide to go to bed. Instead read stuff on the web.
12:45. Go to bed. Figure I'll be out like a light. Brain keeps going through worthless stuff.
1:20. Disturbed by resident noises in the hall, see what's going on. The old RA and a resident had just been wrestling. Converse with residents while trying to keep volume down.
1:45. Go back to bed. Still can't fall asleep.
2:30. Finally fall asleep.
4:30. Goddess smegging Zarquon damnit!

So I'm understandably not in the happiest mental place.

Date: 2002-11-24 04:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] flwyd.livejournal.com
Was August, by chance, in Sewall? Last year, some bright individual decided it would be a good idea to pull the fire alarm as an RA and a cop were walking down the hall. Brains, I tell you!

Of course, three or four years ago, 52 people died at Duke when the fire alarm went off at 4 in the morning and they figured it was a drill.

Date: 2002-11-24 05:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neverireven.livejournal.com
Yah, he lived in Sewall, which was where this psycho RA girl lived, the year she was pulling the fire alarm every night. This would've been...about three years ago. The 99-00 school year. Actually, I think it was right after the Duke fire, because I remember there being a big push to get kids to pay attention to the fire alarms, and there were signs posted up all around Sewell about people getting killed because they thought it was a false alarm. Which is *why* we kept going outside, night after night, false alarm after false alarm. :p
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