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fox ([personal profile] fox) wrote2003-09-18 09:05 am

she's here

not raining quite yet, but the sky is a very ominous shade of grey and the wind is pretty windy for the time of day. [note: voice in my head says "grey and day rhyme. i'd move day to the second sentence."]

am off in a moment to my first class. i can drive and park close to the building, thus avoiding the two streets i have to cross, the flight of stairs i have to climb, and the sidewalk crowded with freshmen i ordinarily have to negotiate along the way. i'll still have two flights of stairs to go down to get to the room when i get there, and two flights back up again to get out. the building's elevator requires a key to operate, which on the one hand makes sense -- but on the other hand makes no sense at all, that an able-bodied professor with an office on the third floor can use the elevator, but a student on crutches with a class in the basement can't.

i will then proceed to the library to meet first with a student and then with a classmate. i might get a nap in between these meetings. then another class, and then i'll see what the storm is doing over land. i may go or i may not -- either way, unless the power's already out, i'll let y'all know.

oh, and: in yesterday's mail i got a thank-you note from the leasing agent who showed me an apartment on saturday. i like the building better and better. :-)
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[personal profile] drglam 2003-09-18 08:30 am (UTC)(link)
I think proper accessibility to an academic building would require open access to the elevator. A student in a wheelchair shouldn't have to miss her first class or be unable to make her first advisor meeting because she didn't know that the building's elevator is locked. Not to mention that some mobility impairments would make it difficult to key the elevator. It's like putting a chain across a wheelchair ramp.

[identity profile] darthfox.livejournal.com 2003-09-18 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
i may in fact do that. of course, they may tell me there's another elevator in the building and i just didn't know about it. but i haven't met anybody who has a good answer to why on earth the blinkin' thing is locked. so i'll definitely give them a call ... when it stops raining. :-)