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It's a lot of fun, geared towards kids and adults willing to be silly. :P
No, it doesn't go off very often, only when I've got the door open for longer than 10 minutes and the outside temp is warm. For some godawful reason, the temp sensor is located right next to the door, so it is very susceptible to fluctuating temp changes due to the door opening and closing. Bad set up, I know, but nothing I can do about it now.
There is no roof hatch, I looked. The alarm was going off because of a temp spike in cooler, which happens every time I open the cooler door. And I would have gotten in a lot of trouble because D would see it as poking my nose where it didn't belong and P would see it as a chance to get hurt and being where I wasn't supposed to be.
And precisely, pray tell, how do you *plan* an opportunity? Isn't part of the point of an opportunity that it is unplanned? Not everything in life should be rigidly structured and codified to the nth degree. That would take all the joy out of everything, and is a major reason that D hates me so much.
And I refuse to do so, as well. I knew I wanted to get onto that particular roof and I took the chance when it arose. I see nothing wrong with that.
ME: I wasn't upset with anything you said about goths. We are a subculture that parodies itself merely by existing. As to her taking the classes for that reason, well, I guess she paid the money and took the classes to do so, but it's extremely disrespectful if that's the real reason. Although, I would better believe that she was just saying that for the shock value and actually was very interested and respectful of the cadavers.
MO: Screw you and the horse you rode in on. I had to talk the guy into letting me go up. He was not the first time they had been up on the roof in the last two months and this was the first one that would let me go, #1, #2 both P and D were going to be there at any minute so there was a huge chance I would get caught and in a shitload of trouble. And what's wrong with completing praxii if the chance comes up as opposed to carefully planning it out? I thought part of the point of this was being spontaneous and creative when you could.
They do call us, but D had told them to turn the alarm off the day before.
I posted a reply yesterday, so I don't know why it didn't show up. Yes, that's almost exactly what they say. Where we're located is right between a sign shop and a messenger service, so I get random guys coming up to me when I'm outside smoking asking me if I can sneak them in for a tour and can they touch the bodies when they get in there. I always refuse, because all they want to do is go back to their friends and say 'Dude! I like totally touched a dead chick! *hur hur hur*' The only non-funeral directors I have ever given a tour to is a pair of cops that stopped by. People with guns get tours if they want them...
I'm a goth, by the way, and most of the people I know in the scene find what I do creepy and disgusting, often think I'm lying in order to make myself seem more goth, and when they realize that not only am I not lying but that I actually enjoy my job they freak out and won't talk to me. Most goths are fine with the trappings and idea of death, but when faced with the reality they run away.
And I would *always* recommend that any artist take a few anatomy courses. The best way to draw something it to know it as much as possible.
All of my terms went away. Now the only way I can find things that I tagged votelater is by coming in here, going to each individual praxis and clicking on the edit terms button to see if it's one that I edited with a term. What happened? Help?
It didn't need a check up, it needed a new capacitor. And as I said under the pic, I was disappointed that it didn't need a flux capacitor. :( The temp here has been yo yo-ing between 50 and 20, so just opening a window wouldn't work. The walk in cooler is kept at a standard 42 degrees year round, as this is the optimum temp where the bodies do not degrade but they also don't start to freeze (which makes them harder to embalm). I have more than one funeral home that I'm currently trying to re-educate that don't have storage coolers of any sort, so they just keep the bodies in the garage (during the winter mostly, but some of them during the summer too (EWWW)) until they get the paperwork and bring them here. This means that about 50% of those bodies I have to refuse because the decomposition has progressed to a point where even I can't fix it. Plus exposure to the elements such as opening a window would cause other problems, plus the smell, and idiots that would attempt to poke the bodies.
You would be surprised at the # of people that wander in and want to poke the bodies. *sigh*
I don't think anybody but Burn Unit could be Burn Unit. I mean, there's a certain Burn Unity quality that only exists in 100% genu-wine Burn Unit comments.
Burn Unit: Accept no substitutes!
And thanks.
Take your opportunities when and where you can.
You are a far braver man than I...