fire alarm

i'm usually a very heavy sleep so naturally when i moved off to college my parents were concerned that i might sleep through a fire alarm in the middle of the night. well this morning that theory was proven hopelessly wrong.

from what i can gather from rumors and the local police blotter some moron set a laundry cart on fire in the basement laundry room. either way i hope that person gets in some serious trouble and is evicted if they live in the dorm. because it is sooo not cool to be woken up not long after you've fallen asleep. sadly my first thought was that the fire alarm was misfunctioning and that it wasn't a problem. but then my wits came back to me and i quickly bundled myself up in as many clothes as i could quickly throw on and grabbed my coat, hat, mittens, and my purse and ran for the doors. the lobby had a horrible odor reminicent of a combination of burning electrical and that smell when you put a cd in a microwave for too long. (yes i have done that last one and then my idiot roommate thought that she could clear the air with fabreeze, it's not intended to work that way)

anyway eventually they let the students go into the other half of the building since we were in the middle of a typical midwestern blizzard. i finally made it back to my room about 45 minutes after i had run out the door. thankfully the sweet firemen were going around letting us know that it was safe and we could go back to our rooms since the hall staff were being stupid morons. at around quarter to four they finally were able to turn off the fire alarm and i was able to fall back to sleep. needless to say i'm now really blerry eyed and even more exhausted than i was last night when i finally decided to go to bed.

i only hope that they have caught the complete idiot that set the fire. actually the prevailing opinion outside last night was that if the person who set the fire was identified we'd all mob together and attack. i felt it would be totally justified. i can't stand stupid people.