Posted

Mar 5th 2009

Mood

Lucky

Last night, at 2 in the damn morning, the fire alarm went off in my building. I got up and got my pants on. I heard my RA, Lucus, banging on all of the doors, so I opened mine up, half-asleep, and said, "I know, I know. I'm coming." Lucus only said "THIS IS NOT A DRILL. GET OUT OF THE BUILDING." At that point, the smell of smoke became apparent to me and I ran back in my room for my coat. I also grabbed my keys, cellphone, iPod (who knew how long we'd be outside?) and socks to wear with my moccasins. Then I ran out of my room, locked the door and followed everyone downstairs and outside. Soon, my vision was a little clouded by the smoke and I was retching and gagging on it. Terrible smell. Almost as if someone burnt popcorn or didn't put water in their Easy-Mac before microwaving it.


I got outside and caught up with Sam. I immediately started cursing about being woken up, and their being a fire of some sorts. Sam tried to console me, but I am NOT a morning person. I just continued cursing until we got away from the building and into another parking lot. At that point, I heard and saw someone else point and yell "THIS IS THE IDIOT WHO BURNT HIS POPCORN!" She pointed right at Cyborg.


Apparently, Cyborg's popcorn burnt in the community microwave. I'm not entirely sure what happened, but there was enough smoke to fill the building, so I'm willing to bet that it caught fire. The story I got said that it was only in there for three minutes, which leaves the microwave to blame for being old, maybe. I don't know the age of the machine, so I'm not sure.


We all got to go back inside in a reasonable amount of time, but the building still stunk something awful, and I spent another hour awake with Brooklyn and Charles until I got tired again, and then another trying to fall back asleep.


I'm pretty fucking pissed off. That was ridiculous, even if it was an accident. I lost sleep I was trying to catch up on, got sick from the smoke, cut class because of how upset my stomach is from the smell, and am all around miserable from the experience. It scared the living shit out of me. I think I lost a few years from my life. I walked right through the fire in question's smoke and thought I was going to run into the fire. It was pretty thick. But, everyone's okay, including me, and nothing got damaged except the popcorn, microwave and Cyborg's pride. I'm grateful for that.