WMU (currently under construction)
I had to teach my class today, and I was in a hurry. Yep, recipie for disaster right there!
Anyhow, the university might be building and/or renovating on part of the campus. I say might be because, despite lots of chain-link fences, I do not notice anything being changed or built within them. But still, they are there, probably for a reason.
Lately, I have begun to think that the "reason" is to piss me off. They block off pretty large areas of the campus; nowhere that anyone would need to be, but rather they are all on the way to where people would want to go, like, oh, I don't know....THE BUILDING I TEACH IN! Since they block off large areas, you can't really just walk quickly around them. They're like pseudopods from amoebas, except they come out of buildings; they don't just block off an area, but for some reason also cut off everything near it as well.
So anyhow, I had to go around these areas, which were very randomly placed. Following the fences, I figured I'd get around them more quickly. Nope! These fences lead into buildings. Yes, that's right! There are places where you actually have to walk through a building as part of the detour. Oh, and the building doesn't always open to the other side either, so sometimes it also involves walking out of the building through a different exit, and circling back around, only to find another fence!
Add to this that I could see through the fences to where I wanted to be. It was kind of like when you drive in a large city with one-way streets, get to an intersection, need to be at the place half a block on the right, but can only turn left. I felt like I was a rat trapped in a chain-link maze! I got really angry about it, too, having to keep turning around and try again (yeah, I was not very good at these mazes). It was SO FRUSTRATING, feeling like I was caged in. I tried directing my anger directly at the fences, but they didn't budge.
I made it to class on time (which was more than I could say for some of my students). However, despite all my rage, I was still just a rat in a cage.
Anyhow, the university might be building and/or renovating on part of the campus. I say might be because, despite lots of chain-link fences, I do not notice anything being changed or built within them. But still, they are there, probably for a reason.
Lately, I have begun to think that the "reason" is to piss me off. They block off pretty large areas of the campus; nowhere that anyone would need to be, but rather they are all on the way to where people would want to go, like, oh, I don't know....THE BUILDING I TEACH IN! Since they block off large areas, you can't really just walk quickly around them. They're like pseudopods from amoebas, except they come out of buildings; they don't just block off an area, but for some reason also cut off everything near it as well.
So anyhow, I had to go around these areas, which were very randomly placed. Following the fences, I figured I'd get around them more quickly. Nope! These fences lead into buildings. Yes, that's right! There are places where you actually have to walk through a building as part of the detour. Oh, and the building doesn't always open to the other side either, so sometimes it also involves walking out of the building through a different exit, and circling back around, only to find another fence!
Add to this that I could see through the fences to where I wanted to be. It was kind of like when you drive in a large city with one-way streets, get to an intersection, need to be at the place half a block on the right, but can only turn left. I felt like I was a rat trapped in a chain-link maze! I got really angry about it, too, having to keep turning around and try again (yeah, I was not very good at these mazes). It was SO FRUSTRATING, feeling like I was caged in. I tried directing my anger directly at the fences, but they didn't budge.
I made it to class on time (which was more than I could say for some of my students). However, despite all my rage, I was still just a rat in a cage.
posted by CMA @ 7:05 PM
1 Comments:
At 8:43 PM,
Kate said…
No worries, Corey.... two wrongs don't make a right, but five rights make a left.
I'd like to think I was clever enough to have made that up myself, but I bet I read it somewhere. I can't *remember* reading it before, so I'll claim credit.
Now, the big question is... how do the rest of us go about getting our blog bookmarked on your site?
Nice start, Corey!
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