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[skygiants]

*gets back from Chaucer final, eyes flist, and sighs*

Oh, come on, guys. Don't you think you're all being a little alarmist?

I mean, yeah, an awful lot of people were kind of glassy-eyed and shambling this morning, but I am 99% sure that's just due to the wacky fun of early morning finals. 99.5%, even. - okay maybe just 98.5%, the point is? Almost positive that it's totally normal.

And while it really was a shame what happened to my nice Chaucer professor, let's face it, if you assign a two-essay final exam on top of a final essay, and have it include so much writing that the hands of no less than sixteen poor students fall off over the course of the test (seriously! I figure I'm lucky to have mine still attached), you kind of have to anticipate that people might be irritated. Stress drives people to do all kinds of crazy things.

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[mercuriazs.livejournal.com]

You know, I think you're right. *sheepish* I think I've been playing too much Wasteland or something. But man, try telling that to my brother; he's still got that stupid gun.

Anyway, how was your final? It's great your hands didn't fall off.

[skygiants]

It's okay. I trust your brother! He is a youth of sense and discretion. Though you might want to invest in a bullet-proof vest, just in case.

And it went okay! Two essays, my first was pretty good and my second was kind of derivative, but I think the blood spatters accidentally blotted out half of my second conclusion anyways, so I can always claim to the TA that I wrote something genius, right?

[tiltingheartand]

If your TA is even still around ...

[mercuriazs.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not the TA's fault about the lengthiness of the final, right?

[skygiants]

Exactly! No one blames her. She's a sweetheart.

Besides, I think she even helped with that thing with the professor, and I don't blame her - if we've got to write the crazy long finals, she's got to grade them.

[mawombat.livejournal.com]

that's no excuse for gnawing off the professor's head. His arm, maybe, but not his head. Oops, I guess it wasn't a big problem after all. Look, he's up and about again.

[skygiants]

I think one of the kids actually took his head as a prank souvenir kind of thing. You know, like when they steal famous statues or busts and pass them around? All in good fun, and I'm sure they'll return it eventually.

[jezrana.livejournal.com]

At some point when the shock wears off, I'll probably stop parsing everything in terms of pop culture, but:

I think I'd rather be the slightly-out-of-touch-with-reality geek who's a little weird but ultimately harmless in something that's not a horror movie than one of the skeptics in something that is a horror movie.

Former tends to have a higher survival rate.

[skygiants]

I get what you're saying, I really do, and I appreciate that you're concerned, but . . . finals and final essays and packing to leave and all kind of has to take priority right now. I don't have time to flip out over something-that-may-or-may-not-be-a-zombie-plague. Besides, they keep doing these PSAs all over campus to tell us that there's nothing to worry about.

But don't worry, okay? If I get all my stuff done I'm going to work in the afternoon before I leave, and no one's more prepared to deal with potential attack than my hardcore German boss wielding an industrial sewing machine.

[jezrana.livejournal.com]

...Yeah, if this had happened while I was still writing my final papers, I probably would've just barricaded myself in the computer lab and kept working.

Of course, that computer lab actually would have made a decent barricading place, being that it was partially underground, whereas the library I work in now is aboveground and has a wall of plate-glass windows.

--Which, now that I think about it, someone should probably go barricade. Because even this is just people pulling a prank or something, they seem pretty into it.

Just be careful, dude. Better safe than sorry.

[skygiants]

Trust me, I won't be taking any unnecessary risks. (I don't have TIME to take unnecessary risks! *mild panicflail all over again* Anyways.)

And like I said - costume shop's a pretty good place if it comes to that. We've got the historic storage, which is completely underground and has only one key. If it's good enough to protect the hundred-year-old costumes, it's good enough to protect me, I say.

You be careful, too. Pranksters or not, places with big plate-glass windows do seem kind of at risk when people start throwing stuff around. And in conclusion: I use this icon ironically! There will be no brain-eating or ceiling-pinning here!