Powerage (with a few more letters)
A recent call to Pepco revealed that as of around mid-day Friday, "There has been a power outage in the Colesville area". But driving around in the Colesville area, I learned that the automated phone message could have been more, much more specific. So far as I know, there was only one street without power, and you can probably guess which one.
Friday I missed one of my classes because I couldn't find the building. And I spent nearly an hour and a half walking through rain and cold. Funny thing is that I approached two campus police in the Kim engineering building and asked if they knew where the other engineering building was (a fallacy in itself: UMCP has maybe 5 engineering buildings) and they replied that they didn't know. One of them went out to his car and got on the CBS, and the other alked to me a bit before also wandering out to his car. I did gather from him that I should try the engineering building behind Hornbake Library, so out I went. Turns out he was mistaken; it wasn't Engineering but Plant and Animal Sciences. Oops! And being 30 minutes late, I figured two more 10-minute walks couldn't make up for 10 minutes of class. I promptly resigned myself to the Student Union where I played DDR for the next hour.
At Bubble Bubble I got the call alerting me to the electricity-less status of my street and came home in the dark. I fell asleep at 8.
Saturday morning I ate McCrap for breakfast and Chipotle for lunch, and damn, I feel like a Korean (I'm such a fatty =( ). But from the nastiness of fast food I snatched a temporary victory. I saw three movies consecutively: Snakes on a Plane (4th time), Crossover, and Crank. Ask me about them later; I shan't detail the experience here.
Early this morning as I was falling asleep I noticed the digits on my clock had lit up and my fan was whirring away. No sooner had I sighed in relief than I heard a freaking explosion at the end of the street and the blinking and whirring stopped. A few dozen truck rumblings later, it returned at approximately 5:20 AM.
Moral of this entry: Campus Police don't know shit about campus, and Pepco is a big fat doodyhead.
