***stardust

So, yeah, that watermain break? It was near-on 24 hours by the time we had water properly again. (A bit of a drizzle and brown smelly shite for brief periods only to disappear again don't count.) We got it back sometime yesterday afternoon, after it having gone out around 4pm the day before. Madness...
This, however, led to another adventure of Britty and I. *giggles*
Well, actually, despite the water-thing, we were having a fun night cos it was like 1.30am, Britt was flipping channels again, and stumbled across our campus tv station, which we don't watch often cos it's usually just random junk or whatever.
Only this time?
It was a reallyreally old like, '80s video game, involving throwing a frisbee.
*mad giggles*
Needless to say, we were pretty amused, so we kept it on awhile. The game blanked out after a minute, we kept the channel there in hopes they were just changing the game....
...and so they were.
The put in..oh I always mess this up, but I think it was Mario Brothers. It's the one I know from having (tried to) played and (much more successfully) watched Eric and Dan and Blake play over in Eric's basement back when we all hung out in school and all. (We played that and Bubble Bobble, which Blake and Dan to this *day* have the music and all memorised...I know Dan knows just where the monsters will fall for a good number of levels memorised as well.) So Britt and I were like, omg, they ARE running an old Nintendo thru the tv station, that's fecking AWESOME!!! *laughs*
So we sat and watched. ^_^
...and soon realised:
Whoever was friggin' playing are MASTERS of this game. I'm not even joking, they knew tricks and secrets and things Britt and I'd never seen, and they beat those levels faster'n we'd even thought possible... like that one where there're all the logs or whatever on the little wire-things that move around? This kid had that DOWN, it took like under a minute.
Britty decided to tape this - because she can, and because we're geeks like that, and cos it was just *mad* awesome.
After awhile of this...they hit a warp zone.
And didn't just warp to level 4 or something. They went to like, level 7 or 8 or so.
Fucking MADNESS holy *shit*... I've never seen that far into a Mario game in my life, and 1) those programmers *knew* their stuff, I'm impressed 2) holy FUCK were these guys GOOD. There's this level where you have these tank-like things rolling at you (so you have to keep moving, it's one of those) and y'know those cannon-things? there were like 463892 of them. Barely exaggerating. And these guys were just....wow.
Britty and I were honestly in awe.
..yes we KNOW what dorks we are. *laughs*

So about 2.30, they were still playing and Britt and I were still watching tho we knew we should get to bed soon. However, we decided to make a trip over to Dod's hall (about a five-minute walk in weather of non-doom) to use the bathrooms (as we'd been told to do) since ours were still out, cos we were afraid we'd wake up in the middle of the night and have to go. Half in pajamas, we bundled up and headed out. Wasn't *as* cold as it has been, but it decided to taunt us and since we didn't have water in our building, it gave us water *outside* our building by deciding to rain. And hail a bit. And Britty got nailed in the eye with some cos she was taunting the weather. *giggles*
So we spot a door that looks like it'll be open into Dod's, and go in. And begin to wander the building cos this's the gym-building, we don't go in here, we don't know where things are. We can see some of the janitor's stuff out, a mop here or vacuum there, but didn't see the janitor like anywhere. Wandered and wandered for a good looong while, found the guys' locker-room, eventually found the girls', discovered that though there were showers and lots of lockers, there're no toilets apparently in locker-rooms. (If this is common, I wouldn't know. And anyway the ones in high school did. *shrugs, giggles confusedly*)
Got a little freaked out occasionally, just cos being in empty buildings, especially schools, does that to you...creepy in a very good way though. We made the *awesomest* discovery though... we're wandering around, and we look down this one little hallway. And there's a door at the end but along the sides? Are four of those little mini-doors, the ones about half-size that endlessly fascinated us all in elementary school. (Well they fascinated me and my friends, anyway. *g*) *Always* wanted to go through one, but they were always locked, never had any idea what could be behind them or what they were for...
Apparently ours our to get into the *racquetball* courts.
yeah.
figure that one out, we couldn't. *giggles*
either all the players are midgets, they ran outta budget for making doors...or something prosaic like the ball hits less hard/often down there so it's less dangerous. but that's no fun.
Britty and I looked at each other, then at the one door that was open, and were like that's it, we're going in. And so we did. And yes, it rocked. *g* Almost like going into a cave in a way, this tiny little entrance into this huge dimly-lit space...
Wandered around that building for like half an hour before we wound up over by the ice rink - which's actually in *Steele* hall which's connected to Dod's - and found a sign that at last said RESTROOMS. Got there just as the janitor'd started in, he went and found somewhere else to clean tho so we could get in there, which was very nice of him. ^_^
So, went to the bathroom at long last, brushed our teeth, and walked back to our dorm to go to bed.
Only I realised I still had my paper-thing to write up for drawing, so I was up 'til like 4 doing that but that's ok. ^^;;;

...so yes, I'm feeling better. Still sick, and today my throat's decided to swell up like a mofo so that makes life interesting. *shrugs and laughs* But I'm not like dying, so s'all good.

Am, however, still kinda tired...I should either do something productive so I wake up, or take a nap.
...
...okFINE, I'll be productive for once, cos I wanna straighten up in here cos I've just been making piles of things instead of finding them places to live again, so yeah. *laughs* Going now.

*Ananda Daydream * 5:23 PM * *

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