Boring no longer

So, remember I said I was bored? Last night took care of all the excitement I'll need for a long time to come. I was in my room watching Batman Begins with my friend Sam, then my suitemate Jenn comes home and we're all talking in my room.

Around 1:30 am the fire alarm starts going off. This has been a fairly regular occurrence in our dorms so we think little of it. Out Jenn and I go with our laptops thinking "well, at least we can check our email". However, in our venture down from the 4th floor, we notice an acrid smell and smoke in the 3rd floor hallway. I'm about to start sprinting when Jenn throws her laptop to me and sprints back up the stairs to wake our friends who are also probably thinking this is yet another false alarm. I run down the stairs and start making a mental list of who we need to account for. Instantly into Girl Scout and stage manager in me takes over. Once outside, I'm checking off GA Shakes people in my head when word comes down that the sprinklers are going off on the 3rd floor. It doesn't take long before water is pouring down the sets of stairwells and down the elevator shaft making a huge puddle in the 1st floor lobby.

Security is called, we all sit waiting for info and the 3rd floor kids are on pins and needles about how much of their stuff is being damaged. After an HOUR 3 fire trucks show up. They're all wandering about. No one knows what caused it, but we're all just still sitting outside.

Around 4:30 am, our artistic director and company manager have both shown up after many calls back and forth on my part with them via my stage manager boss. We're given about 10 minutes to go upstairs to our room and grab bedding and whatever we'll need for the night and maybe the next day or two and they move us into the next dorm over. We're climbing stairs that still have water all over them. Water is flowing down the walls, dripping from the ceiling, and in some places was apparently ankle deep. Good thing those sprinklers work!!

We're now in the new dorms with some of our stuff. The rest of it is still in our old rooms. We don't know yet the living situation after tonight. But there are people in our dorm vacuuming out water and I've never seen so many high powered fans and dehumidifiers in my life. Their vans all have the motto "Fire and water response. like it never happened!" I hope so!fans drying out the hall

So, that's the rather too exciting situation here at GA Shakes...we're all nomadic at the moment while they uncreate the sprinkler swamp