So let me fill you in about my life in the past I-don't-quite-know-how-long-it's-been.
First and foremost, if you haven't been following my facebook, there's been over 150 bomb threats in the last month and a half. They started small, probably with some kid who didn't want to have to take an exam. But then they started to get crazy. First 2 in one day, then 3 buildings at once, then multiple threats with multiple buildings at once. Oh yeah, and then this psycho decided that evacuating classes in the middle of the day was too easy. So he/she/they started evacuating dorms and campus-related apartment buildings at 4 AM.
Basically, I've been couch surfing the last couple of weeks. Easter weekend I went to a friend's house because she wasn't about to let me stay on campus. And sure enough, that Saturday night, I would have been evacuated. Coming back, there were a couple of days that there weren't any threats - we went over 24 hours without a bomb threat, but none of us knew whether it was a good thing or turning a corner and finding yourself face-to-face with a crazy shooter. But I went back to the Throp... if only for a couple nights. The second night I stayed there (and the last time I stayed there) I was evacuated at 5:30 in the morning and had to walk through the streets of creepy South Oakland to get to my other friend's apartment.
Since then, I've been staying with my friend off campus in North Oakland. A bit of a trek from campus, yes, but I wasn't about to spend my last days of classes (and finals week) wondering if I'll be getting my precious night-before-an-exam sleep. But it's been going well.
In light of these bomb threats, kids have been permitted to leave campus early and have accommodations for themselves. Many professors moved their exams and things online. I didn't have to go to my lab the last two weeks of classes and the hardest exam I have got moved online. So I'm not quite complaining as far as that goes.
It doesn't even feel as though yesterday was my last day of classes. In the heat of all these bomb threats, I've just been taking things day by day wondering if I'll get evacuated. Conspiracy theories were thrown out for the whole campus to get paranoid about - Mark Krangle, this psychotic ex-professor at Pitt was arrested at Pittsburgh Airport when police found out he wanted to come talk to students about his eBook (which was apparently about how Pitt is corrupt... or something). The V-Tech anniversary came and went with no crazy shooter or anything of that nature. And now some transgender couple is getting a subpoena against them.
And somehow we have several police forces, the FBI, and the Joint Task Force involved and they're still going. Not that I don't appreciate them for all they do, but let me put it in the words of my uncle this past weekend: "If this had been happening at the White House, they'd have found the guy a long time ago."
In other (much lighter) news, everything else in my life has been fantastic. I'm going home in less than a week, I went to my first carnival of the year last night at CMU, and Italy is now less than a month away. I'm ordering tickets to go to Paris soonish, which is extra awesome.
Wait. Pause. There were just 6 more bomb threats.
On the bright side, I won an inflated duck!
Oh yeah, And I turned 20 last week. I was never a Teen Mom, but I just feel old now. And my family decided to fatten me up with 2 dozen cupcakes, a cookie pie, and peanut butter cookies.
But I think I've said enough for now. I think I should probably start doing something productive before I go talking about bomb threats some more.
Peace homies.
