This smoke-filled world
Ugh. Escaped my room a bit ago to go to the Writing Center and hang out in an air-conditioned place for once. Our fan's been on High all day but it doesn't make a bit of difference. And my head is killing me because I've been sitting in the heat and stuffy air all day (all weekend, really). Guhh. X__X But yeah, it's sticky and disgusting because since the winds have stopped (thank goodness) there's nothing to move the heat around. The sky was totally orange earlier (I think it still is, actually) from the smoke, which scared the hell out of me; but at least our fire is contained. Oh, except for the idiot who was driving a 16-wheeler on Kanan-Dume road and bashed into a Mercedes Benz and went BOOOOM. In the news they said this could start another fire, and I was like GREAAAT. But it didn't (obviously, or I wouldn't be sitting here writing), though the road is closed. Ugh. Idiot.
It's scary to think how differently everything could have gone. If Matt hadn't called me that morning, I don't know when I would have gotten up; I would have just kept sleeping. I slept through the security guard banging on my door, after all. I only answered the phone because it was right next to me and it was my "important person" ring tone. Otherwise, who knows? I told that to Matt and he was dead silent for a minute before saying "...well... I'm REALLY glad I called you, then..." and gave me one helluva hug. It's scary seeing all those pictures and videos of the fire that students are putting up on Facebook and stuff. I was there; I lived through all that. I didn't see it, though; I didn't see billowing flames and red-tinged smoke. I saw the smoke in the morning but it wasn't nearly as colourful. There was just a hell of a lot of it. *sigh* It's just weird, thinking. The fire could have come more our way or onto campus than it did, but it didn't. Our idiot hero-boys could have gotten trapped somewhere (the very thought of which makes me shudder), but they didn't. People we know could have gotten hurt, but they didn't. And on it goes.
Shockingly enough, we had a good convo chapel this morning. A lot of it, of course, was about the fire and giving thanks that we all pulled through safely. Thank goodness for President Benton; he's such a bastion of strength for us all. The singer-people first sang a regular song of praise and then sang Amazing Grace, which seriously everyone joined in on. It was really something. I don't think I've ever sung at Convo before and certainly never with so much feeling. ^^; Through many dangers, toils and snares / we have already come; / 'Twas Grace that brought us safe thus far / and Grace will lead us home. Just... thank goodness everything went as well as it did.
Got to run, but I will be back later. Ciao!
It's scary to think how differently everything could have gone. If Matt hadn't called me that morning, I don't know when I would have gotten up; I would have just kept sleeping. I slept through the security guard banging on my door, after all. I only answered the phone because it was right next to me and it was my "important person" ring tone. Otherwise, who knows? I told that to Matt and he was dead silent for a minute before saying "...well... I'm REALLY glad I called you, then..." and gave me one helluva hug. It's scary seeing all those pictures and videos of the fire that students are putting up on Facebook and stuff. I was there; I lived through all that. I didn't see it, though; I didn't see billowing flames and red-tinged smoke. I saw the smoke in the morning but it wasn't nearly as colourful. There was just a hell of a lot of it. *sigh* It's just weird, thinking. The fire could have come more our way or onto campus than it did, but it didn't. Our idiot hero-boys could have gotten trapped somewhere (the very thought of which makes me shudder), but they didn't. People we know could have gotten hurt, but they didn't. And on it goes.
Shockingly enough, we had a good convo chapel this morning. A lot of it, of course, was about the fire and giving thanks that we all pulled through safely. Thank goodness for President Benton; he's such a bastion of strength for us all. The singer-people first sang a regular song of praise and then sang Amazing Grace, which seriously everyone joined in on. It was really something. I don't think I've ever sung at Convo before and certainly never with so much feeling. ^^; Through many dangers, toils and snares / we have already come; / 'Twas Grace that brought us safe thus far / and Grace will lead us home. Just... thank goodness everything went as well as it did.
Got to run, but I will be back later. Ciao!