Categories: uncategorized
Date: 09 July 2009 09:54:35
Good evening,
I have returned home from student quarters. It was convenient being there but I'd had enough of eating microwave food and I wanted to see Pooka. Just means I have to drive to the hospital tomorrow. Which is fine. That is not the reason for my lack of wiblogging by the way. I had plentiful internet with my wireless broadband usb stick. I just didn't have much to say.
Last night the fire alarm in the student quarters went off. I was half expecting it because I could hear one somewhere else and figured that there was some sort of fault due to the lack of activity/interest generated by it.
So when ours started (just outside my room in fact), I ambled out to the corridor and looked for a fire. I could see no fire, but I found two fellow students who also had not found a fire. We went downstairs and out into the corridor that heads to the main foyer to escape from the noise. Again, there was no activity outside that indicated any official concern about a fire. We wandered down to the security office to check that there wasn't a fire and they said that they didn't think so but the fire brigade had to come before the alarm could be turned off.
We went back to the quarters - one student went to bed. I went to get my contact lenses (nothing like having all your belongings burnt to a crisp and not being able to see) then pottered back downstairs. I met the fire brigade and a security guard emerging from the on-call rooms and they didn't seem to think my lack of rush was cause for concern.
I followed them out to the corridor and joined my fellow students. The brigade and guard strolled towards the ward where the other alarm was being alarmed. Shortly after this the noise ceased and we all went back to bed. I was very tempted to bang on the door and yell "DON'T WORRY! THERE'S NO FIRE!!" for the benefit of the student who had returned to bed. But I didn't.
The End.