Lockdown

 I was sitting in class; watching the clock because class ends at 10:50 and I have to change and be at work by 11.  Right as our professor was telling his final point for the day about the new military technology used in the Peloponnesian War, someone bursts through the door say that they were told to go inside a classroom because we were in lockdown.  Our professor welcomed the newcomers and the others that followed and continued teaching.  He still had all of us there together so why not keep learning?  Meanwhile, our other professor (we have two) left the room.  It wasn't until several minutes later that I received an alert text that let us know that there was a bank robbery on campus.  The assailant was about 35, male, wearing faded blue jeans, and heading towards campus.  When we found out that the lockdown was real, we closed the blinds and kept learning!  Then another professor who had "sought shelter" in our classroom taught us about modern poetry.  A little while later we got an "all clear" text and I went to work.  It was a very interesting 25 minute lockdown, albeit unconventional and nothing like the lockdown drills that I'd been part of in the past.

Surprises, Yreka, & Weirdos

I had quite the eventful weekend.  I moved out of the house Saturday, had a surprise party for my mom Saturday night (correction: Tante Irene really threw the party, I just answered her questions), and now am in beautiful Yreka, on my way to my new place of residence.  Yreka is very small yet still I've seen at least 5 weird people and I was only out of the hotel room for just over an hour.  I don't think I have an exceptionally strong weirdar either  but maybe it is heightened from being away from home.  Also, someone tried to get into our hotel room which was frightening until I realized it was a little old lady.  Supposedly they told her that it was her room number but what she said was a 9 looked suspiciously like a 4 to me.