Ahem

[copied from dland]

Yes. I used the word irregardless, with tongue planted somewhat irreverently in cheek.

I have two little mini-rants today, both about school. Here's the first one.

I have a very nice new display case in the hall outside the library doors. It opens from the front, something I've always wanted, although the doors are sliding, so the whole front can't be all open at once, which makes it hard to put big things in there. Whatever. Yesterday, I put in a nice display using some World War II service newspapers that the head of the history department lent me, along with some local newspapers of the same time (with headlines about Pearl Harbor and such, and local boys signing up at their draft boards), as well as an item or two of my father's, and the book The Greatest Generation. I saw that the light fixture on the ceiling, so to speak, of the display case, had no bulb, so when the custodian came by I mentioned it, and he got a long fluorescent bulb and put it in.

And the two of us stood there and looked and looked and looked and looked. There is no switch to turn the light on. No where no how. Not in the display case, not in the nearby storeroom or electrical closet. It's an electrical fixture that's connected to nothing and cannot be turned on or off.

Moving on.

Kids cannot walk in corridors or stairways anymore.

I do not know why, or when this happened. True, I've avoided hallway traffic as much as possible for the last 30 years, but it's only really since we moved that I notice that people do not walk on the right side of the hall and leave the other side for oncoming traffic. The surging crowd fills up the entire space, and woe to someone coming the other way, who has to squeeze sideways against the lockers (or stairway railings.) If there's an equal sized crowd coming the other way, then they split the hall half-and-half, but if it's a time when most of the traffic is moving the same way -- like leaving the cafeteria after lunch -- it's a one-way street. The halls in the new building are wide, but the stairs are all narrow, so that there can never be more than a single-file in each direction at once, but it's generally a crowd coming one way, up or down. Very weird.

I have so much to do in the house but I am mega-tired, even though I've been sleeping okay. R is loving her new job. I just got home and K is at the eye doctor, so I'm going to see if I can nap just a wee bit before she gets back.


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