The joke...

This morning began like the average college student's morning does. After turning off my second alarm, I roll out of bed (which, if you recall i'm on the top bunk and that's a lot trickier than it sounds), hopped onto the floor with ten minutes to spare before I must leave for class. Feeling no urge to get particularly dolled up and girl-ified today, I threw on some sweats and tennies. Abby and I always walk together to class in the morning and she is usually the one who gets up to my room first because I'm running late. Well not this morning! I was ready to go before she was able to walk up the stairs and knock on my door. Grabbing my water and granola bar, I reached for the umbrella and opened the door. To my surprise and great startlement, this is what I found:

Yes that's right, I had been "cinder-blocked" into my room. Creative eh? When I opened the door, I literally jumped because all I saw was this big shadowy dark thing in front of me. See the crack between the door and the cinder blocks? At first, I thought I could squeeze between them and make it out, but then I snapped back to reality and remembered that I didn't weigh 95 pounds, nor was I made of elastic. Obviously, pushing them out of the way was not the safest or least-damaging way to go about things. I shut my door, walked through the bathroom and out my suitemates' door. I'd deal with it later.

Seeing this done before, I knew who the culprits were, well at least I had a group of suspects. I saw my RA today on the way to class and asked if she knew anything about it. Leah replied, "No......YESS!!"-with a big grin. I just shook my head and she said she and the girls would clean it up later today. While relaxing on my couch after lunch this afternoon, I heard banging and noise outside my door. I called out, "I hear you!!!" For the second time today, a surprise met me as I opened the door to find the two housekeeping ladies and an older maintenance man taking down the cinder blocks. Now you must understand, within each column of blocks, is a four or five inch PVC pipe which prevents anyone from simply pushing the blocks out. So each block must be lifted up and off the pipe. This weekend is "open house" for prospective students and housekeeping was trying to clear out the hallways. I quickly ran out the other door and helped them take it down. Being trapped in your own bedroom was funny, until the poor housekeeping people had to clean i up.