Contemplating the Zombie Apocalypse over Sushi
For the past two semesters I have requested to work the A&A lab for multiple reasons. The first of which is that it is usually empty. The second reason is I really love this building. Since the semester started, however, there have been waves of a dozen students or more at a time in this lab. This poses a problem, because I am on campus from 2-9:30pm on these days and prefer to eat dinner during this shift, but can’t if there are students around. Currently I am staring at a box of tuna and salmon sushi and mentally crushing the head of every student in the room.
As I mentioned before, I love this building. It’s full of art that manages to pop up in every crevice, and it has really intense and open architecture. It’s four stories tall, and has huge glass windows that go from the first floor all the way up on both sides. The center is wide open, and teacher’s offices are boxes that hang from the ledges over the open center of the building in a pod like fashion. There is no carpet in the building, only concrete , steel, wire, and pvc, and I feel more at home here than anywhere else on campus. I believe this is why it makes me so overwhelmingly sad that the building is so undeniably un-zombie-proof-able.
It’s times like now, when I’m waiting for students to leave so I can eat my sushi, that I wonder just where I would go in the zombie apocalypse. For those of you who do not know (and I will not argue these points, I will simply leave you to do the stupid things you think are right so you get eaten before me, thus increasing my chances of survival) the key to surviving is:
A. Move away from populated areas by using back roads until you get to a non populated area.
B. If you bunker down, make sure you have lots of supplies, have an escape route, and be able to fortify the building. If you are in need of immediate escape and are in a two story house, go up the stairs and literally destroy the wooden stairs behind you to make them un-climbable.
C. Make yourself hidden, and stay quiet.
D. Having a plan beforehand is essential.
^Also essential for Zombie Apocalypse.
All of these points made me realize that one day I may have to be torn away from my beloved A&A building, and brought a tear to my eye. The A&A building is literally unfortafiable. It’s multiple entrances come in at too many odd angles, and the windows are literally too large to board-up. The stairs are all concrete and the worst part is the fact the building is right on top of (if not part of) downtown Knoxville.
I spent a while letting sentimentality get the best of me, trying to think of all the pros of staying in the building (a large group could turn it into a mini city, the different tears could be turned into places to grow food because of the large light source, there are plenty of rooms for privacy and to compartmentalize life, etc.). In the end, I sadly acknowledge that my sentimentality for A&A would just get me devoured, much like what I am going to do to my sushi right now.
As I mentioned before, I love this building. It’s full of art that manages to pop up in every crevice, and it has really intense and open architecture. It’s four stories tall, and has huge glass windows that go from the first floor all the way up on both sides. The center is wide open, and teacher’s offices are boxes that hang from the ledges over the open center of the building in a pod like fashion. There is no carpet in the building, only concrete , steel, wire, and pvc, and I feel more at home here than anywhere else on campus. I believe this is why it makes me so overwhelmingly sad that the building is so undeniably un-zombie-proof-able.
It’s times like now, when I’m waiting for students to leave so I can eat my sushi, that I wonder just where I would go in the zombie apocalypse. For those of you who do not know (and I will not argue these points, I will simply leave you to do the stupid things you think are right so you get eaten before me, thus increasing my chances of survival) the key to surviving is:
A. Move away from populated areas by using back roads until you get to a non populated area.
B. If you bunker down, make sure you have lots of supplies, have an escape route, and be able to fortify the building. If you are in need of immediate escape and are in a two story house, go up the stairs and literally destroy the wooden stairs behind you to make them un-climbable.
C. Make yourself hidden, and stay quiet.
D. Having a plan beforehand is essential.
^Also essential for Zombie Apocalypse.
All of these points made me realize that one day I may have to be torn away from my beloved A&A building, and brought a tear to my eye. The A&A building is literally unfortafiable. It’s multiple entrances come in at too many odd angles, and the windows are literally too large to board-up. The stairs are all concrete and the worst part is the fact the building is right on top of (if not part of) downtown Knoxville.
I spent a while letting sentimentality get the best of me, trying to think of all the pros of staying in the building (a large group could turn it into a mini city, the different tears could be turned into places to grow food because of the large light source, there are plenty of rooms for privacy and to compartmentalize life, etc.). In the end, I sadly acknowledge that my sentimentality for A&A would just get me devoured, much like what I am going to do to my sushi right now.