[DantesInferno]

Well, as luck would have it, around 4am I finally fell asleep listening to the rain pound against my window. Ten minutes later I was woken up by the sound of some girls being very loud out on the stairs of my floor. My first thought, "Who the hell decided to get drunk and have a small party on the stairs outside my door?"...so I get out and find four freshman sitting on the stairs, all from the second and first floors. I started to ask them what they were doing (very nicely mind you because they are all really sweet girls) until I looked around me and realized that whole place was pitch black...THE FUCKING POWER WENT OUT! So...here the five of us were in our pajamas talking to each other. Apparently the light above my stairs on the third floor is the only one hooked up to an emergency back up generator, so they huddled around the light like flies. They were armed with flashlights and cellphones, for the reason that the phones weren't working (WELL...AHEM...MINE WAS! okay done now)...Apparently they were woken up by the circuit breaker down stairs, that when tripped started an alarm of sorts which consisted of a very loud buzz, that yes, could be heard softly all the way up on the third floor. So, carefully walking down two flights of stairs with only the eerie glow of the red exit signs (this made one girl uneasy as she had gone to bed after reading The Shining and woke up to see a red glow underneath her door from one of the exit signs)..we made our way downstairs, where we opened the front door and sure enough, the entire campus, and part of the town was out. So, they convinced me to throw on my shoes and grab a sweatshirt and head out with them as they walked around to just explore a bit. So, with four freshman in tow, and me in just my pjs I went walking with them...but first...LESSON...be sure to memorize the number of stairs you have in your house. Leaving the foyer to go the front door I had forgotten that we had three stairs, and thinking there was only two...I promply twisted my ankle and fell smack down on the floor. Of course I was laughing too hard to feel the pain..I mean, c'mon I was delerious from an incredible amount of frustrating lack of sleep. So there we were wandering through campus, in the pitch black. We didn't wander too far. Apparently there was only one other dorm that had an alarm on their circuit breaker like we did, and the only two residents that woke up were two drunken college freshman. So...we made our way back to the dorm, I made my way cautiously up three flights of stairs with no light and I crawled back into bed (but not before I realized that during our walk the bottom of one leg of my pajama pants had gotten wet when I stepped into a puddle...a very cold discovery crawling into very cold sheets). So I layed there and attempted to go back to sleep, but found myself still thinking and eventually the house started to rumble as the power attempted to come back on. After about 15 minutes of listening to what sounded like demons in my walls, the power did come back on. Grr...which means I have to go to work.

Well, I'm up now...barely functioning on four fucking hours of sleep whenI could have had just over eight. Yes...it's one of those days. I think I'll go crank up the song, "Break Stuff"...