I'm taking a break from blogging for little bit. I will try to start up around the New Year or so. I'm concentrating on getting into the grove of all the other things going on in my life right now, so I'm letting this commitment slide a bit for now. I'll update my bio at some point too. I'll also get around to finishing off all of the travel posts that are missing. Just because I'm not in Europe doesn't mean I don't have stuff to say, I just need to focus on some other things right now.
I promise I'll be back - hopefully complete interest in my small collection of readers won't be lost by then.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Mental note
Be here with a camera friday night. I'll be the one wishing she was part of the action, but not daring enough to do so.
Monday, November 12, 2007
Confusion is always fun
See, the bonus of living in a high rise building is that you may be subject to 6.45am (it was really precise) fire alarms. Never fun when you're not a morning person and well, had your alarm clock set to a later time.
And well, you're not really sure if it's really the fire alarm because there are so many random sensor things attached to your ceiling. Oh and it's not like you're left any appliance on that will cause burning and you unit seems to be smoke feel and smelling normal. And since you've woken up, the carbon monoxide probably isn't the problem.
You're wandering around your unit, completely confused and trying to figure out how to turn it off before your neighbours (who probably haven't even moved in yet because there are flyers sitting in front of their door that have been there for days) complain about you (too used to the uptight Swiss folks - I was told to take off my high heeled shoes imediately after entering my apartment because they made too much noise on the floor and that the people below wouldn't like it. The person who complained lived on the same floor as me.) There's some weird panel by the front door which reads, "touch to silence", but it's not like there's a button to press or anything. I feel like I'm pushing a fake device only put there to try to calm you down if you're about to burn into oblivion.
I'm putting on big sweats over my PJs because I'm still not really sure if I'm supposed to be running for my life. I peer out the peephole to the same sight as per usual - an extremely well lit hall. Still looking and feeling like I just woke up (go figure), I crack open the door to see if anyone else on the floor as wandering around confused. Nope. Makes sense, especially if no one in my hallway has moved in yet. I do realize that the whole building is ringing and not just in my own unit. Doesn't necessarily make me feel better.
I'm flipping through the property manual that I'd actually sat down and took the time to read the day I moved in to find the phone number for the front desk and remind myself that I need to get on ordering a land line. I guess that cell phone I got for emergencies was a good thing - except when the 24 concierge doesn't pick up their phone during business hours and I'm send to an answering machine. I bet that the answering machine directs will put me through in an emergency (they book says to call in emergency) but luckily for me, the alarm stops before I hear any more of the message.
Still confused I cautiously return to bed, wondering if I'm safe afterall.
Turns out someone was stuck in an elevator or something (the nighttime concierge didn't know details of the story - which is a little disconcerting, I would have thought there would be a memo to all workers that day as I'm sure I'm not the only one who asked about it) and the result is a building-wide alarm for some reason or another. If there was really an emergency and evacuation was necessary, we would be notified through the speaker system (explains all of the speakers in the ceiling of my unit). I'm told, in case of an alarm, stay calm, stay in my unit and wait for further instruction. Good to know.
And well, you're not really sure if it's really the fire alarm because there are so many random sensor things attached to your ceiling. Oh and it's not like you're left any appliance on that will cause burning and you unit seems to be smoke feel and smelling normal. And since you've woken up, the carbon monoxide probably isn't the problem.
You're wandering around your unit, completely confused and trying to figure out how to turn it off before your neighbours (who probably haven't even moved in yet because there are flyers sitting in front of their door that have been there for days) complain about you (too used to the uptight Swiss folks - I was told to take off my high heeled shoes imediately after entering my apartment because they made too much noise on the floor and that the people below wouldn't like it. The person who complained lived on the same floor as me.) There's some weird panel by the front door which reads, "touch to silence", but it's not like there's a button to press or anything. I feel like I'm pushing a fake device only put there to try to calm you down if you're about to burn into oblivion.
I'm putting on big sweats over my PJs because I'm still not really sure if I'm supposed to be running for my life. I peer out the peephole to the same sight as per usual - an extremely well lit hall. Still looking and feeling like I just woke up (go figure), I crack open the door to see if anyone else on the floor as wandering around confused. Nope. Makes sense, especially if no one in my hallway has moved in yet. I do realize that the whole building is ringing and not just in my own unit. Doesn't necessarily make me feel better.
I'm flipping through the property manual that I'd actually sat down and took the time to read the day I moved in to find the phone number for the front desk and remind myself that I need to get on ordering a land line. I guess that cell phone I got for emergencies was a good thing - except when the 24 concierge doesn't pick up their phone during business hours and I'm send to an answering machine. I bet that the answering machine directs will put me through in an emergency (they book says to call in emergency) but luckily for me, the alarm stops before I hear any more of the message.
Still confused I cautiously return to bed, wondering if I'm safe afterall.
Turns out someone was stuck in an elevator or something (the nighttime concierge didn't know details of the story - which is a little disconcerting, I would have thought there would be a memo to all workers that day as I'm sure I'm not the only one who asked about it) and the result is a building-wide alarm for some reason or another. If there was really an emergency and evacuation was necessary, we would be notified through the speaker system (explains all of the speakers in the ceiling of my unit). I'm told, in case of an alarm, stay calm, stay in my unit and wait for further instruction. Good to know.
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