janetlin | (no subject)

What absolute _genius_ decided to move Transportation and Parking Services off-campus? I was running late to my class this morning, and since it's my only one today and I would therefore only be on campus for one hour, I opted not to be even later by finding this new location to buy my semester parking permit. Well, I should have. 'Cause apparently only the first _three_ days of the semester are permit-free, not the first week. Why? It's only one more day! So I got a ticket. Which I took to this new location, which is off-campus, on the _other_ side of campus from where it used to be, and there is now a fucking _freeway_ between campus and it. WTF? So I buy my semester permit, but apparently that doesn't spare me from having to pay the ticket. Despite that it's been less than an hour since the ticket was issued. And ticketing people on Fridays is ridiculous anyway because the lots are _never_ full. Okay, well, at least not the one _I_ park in, which seems to be a well-kept secret.

Yes, I know my case is weak. That's why I'm not asking them to change anything, and I'm not going to try to appeal my citation, but jeebus.

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"What absolute _genius_ decided to move Transportation and Parking Services off-campus?"

There's something ironicly humorous in that statement. Ecpecialy when you add in the highway. Who puts a highway in mid campus? Wow.

Ah, nonono, campus is happily three or four blocks away from the freeway. They just randomly moved UTAPS to this office in a business park on the other side.

The same people who decide to put classes with handicapped students on the 7th floor and then schedule 3 fire drills a semester. When questioned about what I was to do with the student since we were not supposed to use the elevator, I was told to stay in the classroom since they were drills. When I asked what I should do in case of, i don't know, a fire, I was asked if I had rope. I kid you not I was supposed to have enough rope in my classroom to lower a student in a wheelchair down seven stories. Not to mention that I am not a squad of firefighters.

... I hadn't thought of that before. They have elevators to make building handicapped-accessible, but then you're not supposed to use them in a fire (or earthquake or any other situation in which people are supposed to get out _fast_). How _do_ people in wheelchairs evacuate from high floors? Hmmmm...

But seriously, rope? WTF? It would make more sense to designate a handful of strong students to help carry someone down the stairs. You'd use up so much of the rope just making a harness for the chair... yeah, that's just ridiculous.

Yah and my use rope skill check is only a +2. See D&D geeks are right you can never have to many party members with 50 feet of rope. ;)

Ha, I think mine is _maybe_ a 3, between Girl Scouts and Stagecraft.

50 feet of rope, _and_ Strength in the high teens.

That was mee. I should never have two different browsers open.

In our 7th Sea game, we three players actually divided up our rope so that we could all dramatically swing down from the roof of this dude's house and smash through his windows. It was totally cool and cinematic, except that we left our ropes behind...

Now the running joke, applied to _any_ game is that we never have any rope at all, because "we left it on that guy's house."