university construction, and writing
It's official: Cornell has closed the computer lab I like to use, and is knocking down the whole community center as part of their West Campus building project thingywhatsit.
I am peeved. I liked that lab, and because it was in a community center, the rules about eating and drinking were more lax than in the campus libraries (which are the only places I can go when I want to read something longer than one chapter, or when I want to upload or download anything, because the town public library blocks data transfers and also kicks you out after a strict 65 minute time limit). I am further peeved because there wasn't anything wrong with the community center building.
I understand why the university is killing a lot of the old West Campus dorms -- they were built hastily after WWII and have some weird design quirks. But the new buildings are equally ugly, and suffer from the UNUTTERABLY STUPID popular architectural thing where every building must have some non-right angles, for 'coolness' or whatever. I HATE that. I think they should have put up more Gothic style dorms, to match the existing Gothics (those are good dorms -- I lived in one for a year when I was attending college, and it was nicer than some actual apartments I've had), instead of this weird slate and magenta brick nonsense, with all the squidgy windows and funky angles.
Bah.
Anyway, last night I wrote a story called "The Sun and the Moon," which is an original fairy tale set in the same world as The Moon's Daughter. This isn't one of my planned stories about the Isles ("The Three Sisters," "The Sea Hag," or "The Wizard's Bargain"); instead, it's a new idea that struck me yesterday afternoon and which I actually finished in one sitting.
I would post it today, but the Olin library computer doesn't like my current floppy disk. I'll try again tomorrow.
I am peeved. I liked that lab, and because it was in a community center, the rules about eating and drinking were more lax than in the campus libraries (which are the only places I can go when I want to read something longer than one chapter, or when I want to upload or download anything, because the town public library blocks data transfers and also kicks you out after a strict 65 minute time limit). I am further peeved because there wasn't anything wrong with the community center building.
I understand why the university is killing a lot of the old West Campus dorms -- they were built hastily after WWII and have some weird design quirks. But the new buildings are equally ugly, and suffer from the UNUTTERABLY STUPID popular architectural thing where every building must have some non-right angles, for 'coolness' or whatever. I HATE that. I think they should have put up more Gothic style dorms, to match the existing Gothics (those are good dorms -- I lived in one for a year when I was attending college, and it was nicer than some actual apartments I've had), instead of this weird slate and magenta brick nonsense, with all the squidgy windows and funky angles.
Bah.
Anyway, last night I wrote a story called "The Sun and the Moon," which is an original fairy tale set in the same world as The Moon's Daughter. This isn't one of my planned stories about the Isles ("The Three Sisters," "The Sea Hag," or "The Wizard's Bargain"); instead, it's a new idea that struck me yesterday afternoon and which I actually finished in one sitting.
I would post it today, but the Olin library computer doesn't like my current floppy disk. I'll try again tomorrow.