Indeed.

[icepixie]

Apparently one of the classrooms I'm teaching in next semester doesn't exist. I went to look for it today, since I'd never been in the building before, and I did not find the number I'm assigned to. I did find [number]A, though. It was written in pencil. On a PostIt note stuck to the door.

This does not fill me with confidence.

If this is in fact my classroom, it means I'm going to be teaching in the ROTC area. Which is in an athletics center. Where I will be teaching English.

...I don't even know. This campus has baffled me since I got here. At least my other class is in the humanities building.

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[nickless.livejournal.com]

We had one of those 100+ buildings full of the clanging, non-functioning radiators, rooms where the chairs were around the perimeter for Very Good Reasons, wood floors that creaked horribly whenever someone walked down the halls, plaster and overhead screens falling from the ceiling at random times... It even had the "Men's" stairs at one end that were normal height and the "Women's" entrance on the other end with really low stairs. Kind of cool. It was really freaking gorgeous, too, so the worst part was that they totally neglected it for a good 60 years so they couldn't really "renovate" so much as "gut."

[icepixie]

ooms where the chairs were around the perimeter for Very Good Reasons

I'm trying to think of a reason for that, and I can't. Was the floor rotten in the middle or something? (At my HS, we kept the desks away from the perimeter, because the radiators tended to spurt boiling water out of their steam valves. Not a good place to be sitting in winter! We also had the creaky wooden floors that I think were actually made of more varnish than wood--whee, giant fire hazards! Yeah, that building dated from the 1880s, can you tell?)

It even had the "Men's" stairs at one end that were normal height and the "Women's" entrance on the other end with really low stairs.

Huh. I had never heard of this concept before, but that sounds kind of nifty.

[nickless.livejournal.com]

the chairs were around the perimeter for Very Good Reasons

I'm trying to think of a reason for that, and I can't. Was the floor rotten in the middle or something?

Ding ding ding... When you can stand in the doorway and see that the floor kind of has a concave look to it, you take a chair as close to the wall as possible.

It even had the "Men's" stairs at one end that were normal height and the "Women's" entrance on the other end with really low stairs.

Huh. I had never heard of this concept before, but that sounds kind of nifty.

It was, really - until you had to go up three flights of the "Women's" stairs and your muscles reminded you that you were used to normal-sized steps. Of course, the Men's were extra steep. Thankfully there *were* some normal ones in the middle!

It was really a cool building. It's pretty spiffy now that it's been totally redone, but I miss the charm of the ancient one.

[icepixie]

Ding ding ding... When you can stand in the doorway and see that the floor kind of has a concave look to it, you take a chair as close to the wall as possible.

Oh, dear. Well, I can see how you would want to do that. (I'm facing that a bit with the landing on the back stairway to my apartment. I try to walk close to the wall, and not the balustrade, when going from my door to the steps.)

It was, really - until you had to go up three flights of the "Women's" stairs and your muscles reminded you that you were used to normal-sized steps. Of course, the Men's were extra steep. Thankfully there *were* some normal ones in the middle!

And this is where elevators come in handy. ;)