First weekend of the semester:

Friday we had to jog 1.5 miles in PE class woot. Um then I was done for the day and so I showered and Jen came up and we watched TV and then Thrasher and Megs came over, Stacy got home... we were going to watch a movie but we ended up just watching Jen and Megs wrestle on top of Thrasher and then we decided to go out to eat - woot Texas Roadhouse! Then afterwards Stacy and I went to see Shrek 2 in Reardon (the auditorium on campus) for free and that was fun... but the fun was only beginning! We walked out of the theatre and everyone was looking at this really bright white cloud and there were helicopters circling it. So we came back the apartment and there was a voice mail from the physical plant that said the Magnesium plant (about 15 blocks down) was exploding and that the city evacuated about 8,000 people. At this point AU didn't have to evacuate but if the wind changed we would have to - the fire itself wasn't a concern but while watching the news we learned that the fumes are toxic (even though AU told us they weren't) so Megs, Thrash, Amy, Ervin, Stacy and I evacuated to Megs' house in Indy just to be safe.

Since Ervin stole my paragraph, I'm stealing her pics and captions:

In this picture you can see where the building collapsed. The part that is still standing was holding blocks of pure magnesium, and by miracle only, did not catch on fire as well:

Yay for there only being 4 magnesium plants and Anderson's being the largest in the world and exploding! Funtime! Okay. chill. We came back Saturday afternoon, and on the way Jen got pulled over for speeding hahaha but no ticket. And then Thrasher came back over and her, Jen, Stacy, and Jenn Johnson and I started watching Lord of the Rings - Stacy and Jenn left at some point but Ervin, Thrash and I watched all three movies, extended versions. We went to bed at 5:30 am. Woot. Then yesterday was church, yay Mercy House! (that's another entry for another day) and then L'ami went to Panera and on our way back we drove by the magnesium plant - it was all imploded in except for two sides of it and it was still smoldering a little bit. I looked online today for articles about it and we knew that they couldn't put it out with water but now I know that's b/c water actually makes it worse - and so they don't know yet how the fire started but there was a sprinkler system that made it bad - I guess it used to be a different warehouse or factory or something so that's why there were sprinklers, but they were told to cap them and they didn't - so someone prolly isn't gonna get any insurance coverage. hahahah! BURN! (literally ha) woot. YAY FIRE! okay um... yeah. I'm done I guess.