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Yeah.. so, the term deus ex machina. I don't remember where I heard it first, but I'd been wondering forever about what the heck it meant, and I could never find a proper definition (mostly because I kept spelling it wrong..). Actually... I think I just remembered where I heard it first, and for the sake of my proper reputation, I think I'll neglect to mention that it was a short-lived Saturday Morning cartoon from a few years ago. A rather stupid short-lived Saturday morning cartoon from a few years ago. Aaanyway, as I was sitting in Media Asthetics yesterday, the term came up, and was actually explained to my liking. So, at lunch, randomly someone else completely unrelated brings it up. Weirdness. Then, later that night, we watched Adaptation for movie night, and well, if you know the end, you know the deus ex machina.. But, anyway, about half of us had never seen it before, and as we were watching, we go "Ha! That is such a deus ex machina!" More unrelated people mentioning it. And then I look at the chapter names today, and the chapter is called deus ex machina. What the heck?? I got it the first time you finally told me what it was, world!
There was also a fire drill at 9 last night. What a horrible, horrible thing that was. I had no idea it was coming.. so, my roomie and I were hiding... something... in the closet, so our Resident Heads wouldn't see it if they happened to come in for movie night, and happen to decide to bust us for breaking dorm rules. Hehehe. So, she opened the closet to throw some of the stuff inside, and all of a sudden there was this horrible buzzing noise... and we thought we'd caused it. So, we look out into the hallway (this involved opening the door, a thoroughly bad idea) and it's the stupid fire alarm, complete with a terrible ear-bleeding buzzing noise. None of those nice friendly high-school fire alarms. All-out built-in-the-1920s evil freaking annoying even outside and across the street fire alarm. No one in full possession of their hearing could stay in that building during that alarm. And if they managed to, they would undoubtedly lose their hearing rather quickly. Ugh. Whoever came up with that was a horrible evil person. Horrible! But apparently one of the other dorms on campus actually had their alarm go off at 3 this morning. Which obviously wasn't a drill... or maybe it was just a really evil drill. Silly college people.
Yeah... I should go do some calc before I go to track practice now.
There was also a fire drill at 9 last night. What a horrible, horrible thing that was. I had no idea it was coming.. so, my roomie and I were hiding... something... in the closet, so our Resident Heads wouldn't see it if they happened to come in for movie night, and happen to decide to bust us for breaking dorm rules. Hehehe. So, she opened the closet to throw some of the stuff inside, and all of a sudden there was this horrible buzzing noise... and we thought we'd caused it. So, we look out into the hallway (this involved opening the door, a thoroughly bad idea) and it's the stupid fire alarm, complete with a terrible ear-bleeding buzzing noise. None of those nice friendly high-school fire alarms. All-out built-in-the-1920s evil freaking annoying even outside and across the street fire alarm. No one in full possession of their hearing could stay in that building during that alarm. And if they managed to, they would undoubtedly lose their hearing rather quickly. Ugh. Whoever came up with that was a horrible evil person. Horrible! But apparently one of the other dorms on campus actually had their alarm go off at 3 this morning. Which obviously wasn't a drill... or maybe it was just a really evil drill. Silly college people.
Yeah... I should go do some calc before I go to track practice now.
