university of hip hop

we had what i presume was a fire drill at uni yesterday... the first we knew of it was our lecture being interrupted by someone informing us of the evacuation! most of the alarms in the main tower block did not work: i counted two¹ audible bells on the 7 floors we descended!

were it not a drill we'd probably have sat there obliviously continuing with the lecture until we burnt to death!

but wait, it gets better, neither the security barriers nor the revolving doors² [fitted at great expense to the uni] in the main entrance were opened! the resultant bottle neck in the lobby of students and staff took around 15 minutes to clear.

i really aught to have learnt to expect this sort of disorganised incompetence from them by now, but somehow it still came as a shock.

1: there are, iirc, 3 bells per floor

2: fancy ones where the fixed screens can swivel, opening the doors up so that people can exit quickly

in other news...

it's fat tuesday tonight...

the guy who runs the event was telling me last week that he'd lined up either simon amstell or russel howard to perform [can't remember which one of the two as i was quite inebriated at this point]¹

am placing a ticket order in about an hours time, gimme a shout if you want in.
you can get them here

1: i cannot guarantee them being there as tiernan told me he'd not made it public knowledge as they'd canceled the previous time he'd booked them...

however, also performing are: