My family came to visit last weekend. We went to Chinatown for Dim Sum. Yay. I love doing that. Especially because after that, we get pastries, and I usually get some egg custards and a moon cake. This time was no exception. ^_^ I also saw Saved! this weekend. It was funny, and not bad, but also kind of scary... And after that, we had Storytime in the Concourse Lounge, which was fun, but ran on for a bit too long. :P So yeah, this weekend was pretty good. It's probably the last time I'll have so much free time all term.
I decided to work at the RSC again this term. That's the library that I worked at last year (the Retrospective Collection - we deal with old books and archives). It was pretty routine (i.e. boring) until I went to go shelve the books that I had finished barcoding. The elevator in the library is a massive old freight elevator (the library used to be a warehouse), so it has two doors that you have to open manually - there's a gate on the inside and a door that you have to open to get out. Anyway, I rode it up to the 5th floor, reshelved the books, then decided to ride the elevator down to the 4th floor to say hi to Liz, who I hadn't seen yet. Unfortunately though, I had just missed her and she had left for the night. Now, the 4th floor of the library houses the archives, and it is locked after hours, so you can't open the outer door thingy. Usually, after the elevator stops, you have to open up the gate from inside, then the door, and then get out of the elevator. But there was a problem - the outer door had been locked! So there I was inside the elevator, able to open the gate, but unable to open the door... and with no way to get the elevator to restart, since you have to open the gate and the door, and then close them both again to make the elevator run again. Don't ask me why - the elevator is old and stupid.
I was stuck, and there was no way for me to get out on my own. I yelled a few times, hoping someone would hear me, but the elevator is in the far back of the library, as far from the office as you can get. Plus, it was closing time, so there weren't many people around. I finally mustered up the courage to push the big red ALARM button (after fiddling around with the gate for several minutes), and it would ring this loud fire bell-type thing as long as you held it down. I also tried the emergency phone, but it didn't work. <_<; So I went back to pushing the alarm button. About five minutes of fooling around with that finally attracted peoples' attention, and Moses ran up to the 4th floor and unlocked the door and let me out. After that, the elevator was stuck and wouldn't move... Probably because I had pushed every single button on the panel, and it was hopelessly confused.
Hah. That was a bit traumatic. I've never been stuck in an elevator before... At least the one at work is nice and big and had lots of collapsed cardboard boxes that I could have sat on, if necessary. :P Anyway, work was considerably more 'eventful' than I thought it would be.
I finished watching Chrno Crusade tonight. Man, talk about depressing. I sure hope the manga doesn't end up like that... Well, it better not, since I think it's still ongoing in Japan. Actually, speaking of manga, I read about thirty chapters of Death Note the other day (well, that's all that's been scanlated so far :P). Oh my goodness, L is such a hilarious character. He reminds me of Gollum, but in a good way. Something about the way he sits on chairs... Plus, the I-haven't-slept-in-a-week look cracks me up every time I see a picture of him.
Oh my, just checked the referrals of people who surfed over to my blog. People come here in search of "stupid people at MIT" (yeah, that's me, though I guess I'm only one person) and "DBZ anime music videos" (what the...?). Anyway, hi there to all of you who totally weren't looking for my random ramblings. And sorry, but no, I don't have any of those anime mp3s that you seem to be searching for. :P
- Flykyr Skysong
Current song: Aurelia - when night is falling vampires song (2001 canarias mix)
Current mood: Sad ._.
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