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This is me, failing to go to bed at a sensible time.
Again.
Go me!
Again.
Go me!
6 November 2004
I hope you all have a lovely day and that this next year will be the best to date!
Meanwhile, courtesy of
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lifes_a_dream...*sniffs dramatically* Why, Andi, I thought you loved me! *huffs and flounces off to pout prettily*
OK, this is fun!
From what I can gather, someone on the top floor of our flat complex was trying to cook sausages andset their oven on fire. One of their flatmates, thinking it wasmore serious than it was, set off the fire alarm, which unfortunately is a Chad's-wide thing. And EXTREMELY loud.
The fire was out before everyone had even fully evacuated (Eni managed to grab her cup of coffee on the way out - good move!), but the alarm is linked into the fire brigade, so the fire engines came automatically. A couple of mildly-annoyed looking firemen went to investigate, and went away again, though the trucks are stilloutside.
We've been informed that the duty porter doesn't know how to deactivate the alarm, and some porters are on their way, but taking their sweet time. In the meantime, we've been assured it's quite safe, and so here I am, wearing earplugs* and wondering if I should start my own dinner soon.
*My earplugs claim on the packet to reduce high-freqeuncy noise by about 40dB, and low-frequency noise by about 20. Since the fire alarm, I'm guessing, is about 120dB - painful - the earplugs have reduced it down to around 80 from my ears' point of view - annoying, but I can basically live with it.
EDIT: There apparently is a porter here now, but he doesn't know where the fire alarm shut-off is, or how to work it!
From what I can gather, someone on the top floor of our flat complex was trying to cook sausages andset their oven on fire. One of their flatmates, thinking it wasmore serious than it was, set off the fire alarm, which unfortunately is a Chad's-wide thing. And EXTREMELY loud.
The fire was out before everyone had even fully evacuated (Eni managed to grab her cup of coffee on the way out - good move!), but the alarm is linked into the fire brigade, so the fire engines came automatically. A couple of mildly-annoyed looking firemen went to investigate, and went away again, though the trucks are stilloutside.
We've been informed that the duty porter doesn't know how to deactivate the alarm, and some porters are on their way, but taking their sweet time. In the meantime, we've been assured it's quite safe, and so here I am, wearing earplugs* and wondering if I should start my own dinner soon.
*My earplugs claim on the packet to reduce high-freqeuncy noise by about 40dB, and low-frequency noise by about 20. Since the fire alarm, I'm guessing, is about 120dB - painful - the earplugs have reduced it down to around 80 from my ears' point of view - annoying, but I can basically live with it.
EDIT: There apparently is a porter here now, but he doesn't know where the fire alarm shut-off is, or how to work it!
Bread is funny stuff. Cheap bread seems to go mouldy long before it goes stale, whilst more expensive, nicer-tasting bread goes stale but is much less likely to go mouldy.
*throws experimental materials in bin as mother will probably not be interested in observing the results of said investigation*
I'm doing a big tidy-up so my room is presentably when my mum comes tomorrow. :D
*throws experimental materials in bin as mother will probably not be interested in observing the results of said investigation*
I'm doing a big tidy-up so my room is presentably when my mum comes tomorrow. :D
Does anyone know what glycogen actually tastes like, and can you buy it in dried/powdered form for cooking, etc. with, the same way you can with starch?
