Merry Lockdown Drill!

A year ago at school we had an evacuation drill, which came in handy later. Today it was time for a lockdown drill, in case there's some crazy guy on the loose with a gun ever. Of course, they gave plenty of prior warning (and made sure everyone was informed), so there was nothing to fear. Except losing a few minutes of precious class time. Oh no!

The classroom procedure for a code red (full lockdown) is something like this: cover all windows, lock all doors, turn off all lights, and go off into a corner and hide. If you're out in the hallway when it happens, you're supposed to get to the nearest classroom as quickly as possible. If you don't make it before they lock the door, you're the bait. After all, they'd prefer to sacrifice only one student instead of having an open door exposing 30.

So my class all had to cram together and... well... bond, I guess. It didn't take as long as I thought it was going to, but I shouldn't have expected to take a long time because it wasn't real. Oh well. There has been a lockdown before (I was in the very same classroom, as it happens), so I guess I'm all the more prepared.

Today was also a testing day for the freshmen and sophomores. That means we cool upperclassmen got to spend those three testing hours doing nothing productive. And we get to do it tomorrow for even longer! My holding room, like last time, is one of the computer labs. I probably won't post from there -- I've got to give this post a chance to bask in the spotlight -- but I might start writing the next post. Other than that, I don't really know what I'll do. I got kind of bored, so I was doing work for a class. Doing nothing can be boring.

A webcomic that features the same panels every day, but with different dialogue: Dinosaur Comics. It's an example of constrained writing, but it hardly seems constrained at all. In fact, there's little action going on in the panels in the first place, so it's not like the dialogue is totally random. I've been reading it for about a month now, and I'm hooked.

Creative use of Google Maps #5,947,338: Celebrity Maps.

One year ago: "I'm thinking we could go somewhere with the comedy stuff, though. Maybe do a youth group comedy night."