Fly me back...to where my home is?

i've had such a traumatizing night it's not even funny in retrospect (yet). it was madness, pure madness...someone pulled the fire alarm on my floor at 3.30 am in the morning. it was blaring away, so i woke up, got out of the room, and saw people running into each other's rooms, i asked my RA (residential advisor) if i should ignore it, coz i thought maybe someone had pulled it by accident...and she nodded. so i went back to bed. but the alarm just kept going on and on, and finally me and my roommate decided we should go out and ask again, so my roommate went to bang on my RA's door (right next door to me), and it was pretty scary...i could hear her from inside my room pounding and pounding away, we finally decided we'd better get out. so we were making our way out and we ran into 2 firemen at the end of the hall...and we were totally blur about what was going on, so we asked and they yelled at us to get out. turns out we could have been fined $1000 each for not leaving the building soon enough (hey, what if we were just really heavy sleepers?). anyway, found out later that my RA thought i had asked her "should we get out?" so she nodded...but anyway. it was not pretty, the entire building was standing in the parking lot, by that time it was 4 in the morning. then we got yelled at by some of the hall staff because the fire marshall was pissed that he had to come out in the middle of the night for a false alarm (turned out to be no fire), and he was especially pissed that 2 residents actually asked him what they should do (me and my roommate obviously, but don't you ask questions when you're unsure?!)...it was really freaky, when we got back into the building at last, we saw that someone had poured maple syrup (weird, don't ask me) outside the room nearest to the fire alarm, and had written "watch your back" on the door. and the ironic thing is everyone else not living on my floor was blaming the guys who lived in that room...if they were silly enough to pull the fire alarm in the middle of the night, would they have attracted attention to themselves by pouring maple syrup outside their door? please...so anyway, we all went to bed, and 2 minutes later, the alarm goes off again. (this time me and my roommate hauled our butts out of there asap, lesson learnt). except this time, someone had pulled the alarm in the neighboring block, obviously the same people who decided they still hadn't had their fun...and because the fire marshall was so pissed he decided to pull the alarm in my block as well to "teach us a lesson". hey...innocent victims suffering here? don't understand the fire marshall...isn't it his job to come out in the middle of the night if a fire alarm goes off? he gets paid for doing that...no reason to be pissed. well, we stood in the carpark lot for another hour...was 5.30 by the time we got back to our rooms. and we weren't sure if it was going to happen again, so my roommate and i decided we should pack a bag with our cell phones, a book, food, water, just in case. know we're not supposed to grab anything, but we didn't want to be left stranded in the parking lot with nothing to do for the next 3 hours...coz the fire marshall threatened that if it happened again we would be in the parking lot till 8, which is when his shift ended. so yeah...it was traumatic, to say the least. this morning i was reading the bible, from psalm 16..."Keep me safe, O God, for in you I take refuge". i could better appreciate that verse after my "harrowing" experience.
on a lighter note...the night had actually ended really well. my roommate had given me a long massage coz of the knot in my shoulder, then we watched matrix reloaded...nice way to end the saturday, until the fire alarms. well, at least now i have a story to tell.
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