Fire--take two
Nov. 4th, 2002 03:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
msfledermaus3;00 am
3;00 am, goddammit!!!!
Our main fire alarm went off at 3 am. I had the drill down this time--grabbed clothes, shoes, keys, wallet, coat. This time I didn't smell the smoke until about the 3rd floor stairwell, and started to moan, "shit oh shit oh shit not again not again..."
I hit the first floor coughing and choking on smoke, along with a small handful of my neighbors and some moron going, "Like, chill, lady," In a few minutes I was joined by Ben the neighbor with his kitty in a carrier. The moron also joined us. "look, like, chill out; someone on first floor's couch was on fire; it's out now." We allll looked at each other, then at him. Not a one of us went back inside. The firetrucks came, (again) and gave us the all-clear to go back inside and (finally just now) shut off the alarm.
I just bet I know which apartment it was downstairs, too...one of the ones with reallly unsavory neighors in it. I am so very,very , very pissed off. But I'm okay. I'm just very very awake, and I have a rough day ahead tomorrow...
3;00 am, goddammit!!!!
Our main fire alarm went off at 3 am. I had the drill down this time--grabbed clothes, shoes, keys, wallet, coat. This time I didn't smell the smoke until about the 3rd floor stairwell, and started to moan, "shit oh shit oh shit not again not again..."
I hit the first floor coughing and choking on smoke, along with a small handful of my neighbors and some moron going, "Like, chill, lady," In a few minutes I was joined by Ben the neighbor with his kitty in a carrier. The moron also joined us. "look, like, chill out; someone on first floor's couch was on fire; it's out now." We allll looked at each other, then at him. Not a one of us went back inside. The firetrucks came, (again) and gave us the all-clear to go back inside and (finally just now) shut off the alarm.
I just bet I know which apartment it was downstairs, too...one of the ones with reallly unsavory neighors in it. I am so very,very , very pissed off. But I'm okay. I'm just very very awake, and I have a rough day ahead tomorrow...
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Date: 2002-11-04 02:27 am (UTC)*hugz*
Glad you're OK!!
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Date: 2002-11-04 06:11 am (UTC)I need lots of caffeine today, I think...
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Date: 2002-11-04 03:10 am (UTC)Poor Mausi! and all the rest of your neighbors.
*soothing hugs and cuddles*
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Date: 2002-11-04 05:56 am (UTC)And I'm really tired, and HAVE to go to work:(
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Date: 2002-11-04 03:50 am (UTC)I'm glad it turned out to be ok, but that must have brought all your fears back in one big rush. Ugh!
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Date: 2002-11-04 05:54 am (UTC)And I just wanted to throttle the stupid bastards who lit their couch on fire.
(((((Cyn))))
There's nothing scarier than hearing that alarm go off at 3 am. I'm just glad it wasn't a total repeat of lat time.
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Date: 2002-11-04 05:57 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-11-04 06:09 am (UTC)those nice firemene weren't too happy about being woken up, either...
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Date: 2002-11-04 05:14 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-11-04 05:51 am (UTC)And like an idiot, i'm locked into my lease until June. though I'm sure the Renter's union should be interested in last night, too....
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Date: 2002-11-04 06:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-04 06:48 am (UTC){{{{{M}}}}}
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Date: 2002-11-04 02:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-04 06:54 am (UTC)*grin*
*hugs*
that suckass!!
but at least you had a good date last night!
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Date: 2002-11-04 02:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-04 07:40 am (UTC)If you are at all quakey or nerped, you are welcome at my new sassy pad. I have much sofa and all that.
CALL ME for the love of pete!
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Date: 2002-11-04 08:40 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-11-04 09:08 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-11-04 02:33 pm (UTC)We had a fire here in March, too--again, human error. We're all getting really good at this:(
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Date: 2002-11-05 05:42 am (UTC)(thus my good record of Getting the Hell Out of the Building)
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Date: 2002-11-04 10:00 am (UTC)Re: fir
Date: 2002-11-04 02:30 pm (UTC)...saturn ascends, comes round again...
Date: 2002-11-04 10:40 am (UTC)i haven't slept since i saw you last. i got back upstairs and did a pretty elaborate saturn/pluto ritual (as in the planets, not the cat!) partly to deal with some of the stuff going on in my own life, partly to take out a little karmic can of whoopass on whomever woke me up at 3:00 am. GRRR!
part of the ritual involved turning a tarot card. judgment. ruled by pluto. figures. i just knew saturn and pluto were gonna be putting a smackdown on my ass again soon! now i'm just counting down the days until pluto goes retrograde and all holy heck breaks loose.
don't mind me - i'm sleep deprived/depraved and kinda giddy.
meow!
Re: ...saturn ascends, comes round again...
Date: 2002-11-04 01:52 pm (UTC)And poor you...and poor me...I'm dying for some sleep.
I blame Saturn for all the fiery Smoke-filled chaos at work today too. All the mechanical things are freaking out, and this is officially a VERY BAD DAY!!!!
Re: ...saturn ascends, comes round again...
Date: 2002-11-04 02:49 pm (UTC)Wear the grudge like a crown of negativity.
Calculate what we will or will not tolerate.
Desperate to control all and everything.
Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen.
Clutch it like a cornerstone.
Otherwise it all comes down.
Justify denials and grip 'em to the lonesome end.
Clutch it like a cornerstone.
Otherwise it all comes down.
Terrified of being wrong. Ultimatum prison cell.
Saturn ascends, choose one or ten.
Hang on or be humbled again.
Clutch it like a cornerstone.
Otherwise it all comes down.
Justify denials and grip 'em to the lonesome end.
Saturn ascends, comes round again.
Saturn ascends, the one, the ten.
Ignorant to the damage done. <-- (and this part is true of the feline Saturn as well!)
Wear the grudge like a crown of negativity.
Calculate what we will or will not tolerate.
Desperate to control all and everything.
Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen.
Wear the grudge like a crown. Desperate to control.
Unable to forgive. And we're sinking deeper.
Defining, confining, controlling, and we're sinking deeper.
Saturn comes back around to show you everything
Let's you choose what you will not see and then
Drags you down like a stone or lifts you up again
Spits you out like a child, light and innocent.
Saturn comes back around. Lifts you up like a child or
Drags you down like a stone
To consume you till you choose to...
...let this go.
Give away the stone.
Let the oceans take and transmutate this cold and fated anchor.
Give away the stone.
Let the waters kiss and transmutate these leaden grudges into gold.
Hmmm... a little grim, but that's pretty much what Saturn's all about. Besides, it's been stuck in my head all day, so i had to get it out!
Re: ...saturn ascends, comes round again...
Date: 2002-11-05 05:53 am (UTC)Besides, if there's no choice on the matter, transmutation is better than sinking...
*concentrates on the personal alchemy of transformation...*
Too bad things are still so in flux. today I go kick Dubya's ass by voting..there's a kind of metamorphosis.
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