Whoa...

[ikyrian]

What an interesting evening. It's been raining here all day, so when the storm started about eight, I was really startled by the rain suddenly slamming into my window. I didn't realize it was so bad outside! As my roommate and I were making these observations to each other, the lights suddenly flickered, then died. Then came back. Then went away. Then came back to tease us for a second time before just giving up the ghost and turning off...for. Two and a. Half. Hours. During this time both me and my roommate need to do work for various classes so that we may make it through midterms with our grades fairly intact. So we abandon West to go to a place with light: Thoresen.

Good old Thoresen. I'll never make fun of you again. It was completely lit up, thank God. So we go up to the second floor and get a fair amount of work done. As the night progresses, Anne and I are joined by various people that also need to study and what not.

This is the point where I say that if we were at a state school, we'd not be studying, but drinking and we'd still be making straight A's anyway. Bleh.

Anyway, after an hour of working, Anne and I decide to take a walk to Moore to find out how Andrea Joy, Karlene, and Denise are doing. So we make it over to Moore and we run into Andrea Joy first, mostly because she lives on the second floor. After talking to her for awhile, we say goodbye and that we're going up to check on Karlene and Denise.

Suddenly, Andrea Joy says "Wait, you're going to see Karlene, right?"
Yeah.
Quietly she tiptoes to the elevator and says:
"Karlene! You have some visitors!"

Karlene had gotten stuck in the elevator! Oh my God! After a couple minutes of freaking out, I calm down enough to start talking to her. She was OK and managing to hold onto her cheerfulness, which was a good thing, because it's very hard to imagine a non-cheerful Karlene. Which makes her like a goddess or something, because no one, well, mortal could be so cheerful all the time. But, I'm judging by myself, and everyone knows that I'm not cheerful all the time. Heh.

Anyway, Karlene's up in the elevator, where it's stuck between second and third floors, just enough so that when we finally got the elevator door open, we could see her, but she couldn't get out. T_T So we gave her water and some more homework (cuz, wow, it must have been incredibly boring up there), and Anne and I got our homework so we could sit in the hall and keep her company.

It was rather amusing in that not really amusing sort of way...she kept getting ogled at like a lion in a zoo. Grr. Anyway, so she was up there the whole freaking time as no one could get her *out* of the elevator.

I guess I should say that at some point the fire alarm went off in Main hall, so they had to clear everyone out and check all of the rooms one by one to make sure that no one was still in there.

So, yeah, that was my interesting evening with no power. It seems that our classed is cursed or something. Last year we brought the snow in, and this year it's hurricanes and power outages. Who knows? Maybe next year will be flooding or tornadoes or earthquakes or something! ^_^ Wouldn't that be fun?

Comments

[thefakeheadline.livejournal.com]

I've heard that the year before I went there/two years before y'all started, the main parts of campus had a water outage. No showers, no toilets, no washing hands - *nothing.* People had to go down to the gym to take showers, and there were some nasty port-a-potties on the Bell Quad. Hopefully you guys won't be *that* unlucky. *g*

That said, eek! Getting stuck in the elevator sounds uber-creepy. I'd have to avoid enclosed spaces for a week or two. Karlene is a stronger woman than I.

[ikyrian.livejournal.com]

Ugh. That must have been awful! I hope so to, I couldn't imaginehaving to go to a port-a-potty just to pee everyday. Not to metion other things. :p

Yeah, I think it makes Karlene a stronger woman than most, really. Especially since remained so cheerful. It does sound really creepy. The one thing that kept flashing through my head was the elvevator scene in "Resident Evil." Dis-gus-ting. ugh.

Denise

[(Anonymous)]

No, I'd say that this year's first years brought it in! >:-) We already brought our own year of what might be seen as misfortune to the school, we've done our share.

Completely agree with you about the state school thing. Alas!

Re: Denise

[ikyrian.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that could be true...damn those first years! 'Tho, it would be funny to see if there is another bad disaster next year as well, so then we would really be blamed for it! 2006, the Cursed Class! Whooo!

Yeah, isn't that state school thing a bitch? *snort* Sometimes I wonder what it would be like going to an easier school...^_^;;;