And The Animals Came 2 by 2

It started out like any other day, really. I was early to work, I took a break, bought decorations from Jo Ann Fabrics for my new dorm room (which will be resplendent with retro-beauty! Complete with red, yellow and orange circles, a red boa and a red paper lantern so far… not to mention original artwork by yours truly!) and then came back in for the long 3 hours of the remainder of the work day.

Now, nearing 4:30 pm, my Boss stands up and glances out the door to the hallway…and turns deadly pale. That’s no good…So, I stand up (in my pretty pink and orange skirt and brand new shiny shoes) to look at whatever it was that had caused her to look like that. I thought it might have been another masturbating homeless person but it was something oh so much more disgusting. Ha... now you really wanna know, dont'cha? It was sewage. Yeah.. gross, right? It was flowing..no, it was pouring from the women's bathroom with little pieces of toilet paper floating peacefully by the doorway.

There was a long moment when all I could do ws blink at it before I realized it was coming into the office and there quite honestly nothing we could do about it. We didn't even bother to shut the door. There was a general yell for "shit" which was also was floating in the water, and we all fell to grabbing things from the floor, tugging out power cords and all manner of things that I'm sure were incredibly funny to watch by the students who passed by. Mind you, this has happened once before but not nearly as bad. The flood damage isn't extensive but you can bet your ass that I'm not pleased with having to tromp around in sewage for hours in my brand new shoes trying to push-broom the nasty water away from anything electrical.

And perhaps the worst part about the entire ordeal was that none of the maintainence people were there to take care of it. We had to call them from home, poor boys. We only have one person here at night patroling and he's from a security company. Ugh! God I hate this place sometimes. The best part about the whole situation was Alan, my favorite co-worker. The conversation went like this...
"Hey...Jess?"
Yeah, Alan?
"Um.. There are animals lined up two-by-two outside. Did you want me to go ahead and let 'em in?"

Shut up Alan...