Fire Alarm
I got woken up by a fire alarm while sleeping in the CS lounge today. I think it was around 9am. I’m not going to lie, I was pretty annoyed by this. I only got a slight warning before the full alarm hit. Basically, here I was, half-sleeping in the CS lounge (couldn’t really sleep because of the hard couches in there), and I heard the fire alarm from outside the hall. For some reason, the alarm took a couple of seconds before it started ringing inside the CS lounge. So when it did, I was somewhat prepared and quickly put my hands up to my ears to cover them up. Sure enough, it was the fire alarm, and the previously dark room was flashing the intermittent bright lights characteristic of fire alarms. That’s just obnoxious. Why would there be a fire alarm at 9am on a spring break Thursday? As if my sleep needs to be any lower quality. On that note, I think I’ll switch back to sleeping in the EGSA lounge, even though it still has some smell of construction left, since the CS lounge sofas are just not good for sleeping. Perhaps it is also caused by the fact that the CS lounge has no blankets to keep me warm. I really dislike this smell in the EGSA lounge, though. Perhaps it came from the construction they are doing for the TA room next door to the EGSA lounge. The other advantage is that I don’t think there are any fire alarms inside the EGSA lounge.