Not only is my friend Julie coming up to Tempe for the 4th, but my friend Cortney is visiting for the weekend as well. She asked if I had to work today and I said "of course I do, Thursday isn't a holiday."
"Well, can you get off early, like at 2pm?"
"ha! Maybe 4:30, but certainly not 2! It is still a work day"
Well, little did I know... At 10:30 today, the building lost power. Of course some back up generators came on to save the more important experiments, but most of the lights, all of the computers, and definitely the air conditioning all shut off. Luckily I work in a very large building so the lack of AC was inconvenient and noticable but not unbearable at all. It was really funny to see how everyone came out of the offices and labs to the center of the building. we all stood around looking dumbfounded at each other. after all, a majority of us couldn't do anything. I know, shocking, even though I am in facilities I am not really very useful fixing facility problems.
We found out that the entire east side of campus was without power, so we stopped worrying that something was wrong with our building and instead settled in to wait, knowing that it was doubtful anyone had figured out what had happened yet and it would be a good long while to fix.
At about 12:30 a co-worker and I went on a lunch run and got Wendy's for everyone. we came back and about an hour later my boss let me and a couple other students workers leave!
So what do you know?! I got out of work at 1:30!! Not to shabby. I was also at a wine bar with Cortney by 3:30 hahaha, so it is going to be a very good holiday weekend
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