Five Days of B&W 3/5

[nanila]

The 15-year anniversary of my LJ passed quietly by on Saturday, 11 July. I rarely post on Saturdays, being fully occupied with family at the weekends. Still, I see no reason why the celebrations can't continue, given that I started a month in advance. I'll finish off my projects, and after all, I still have to make a drunken post from the bath about SCIENCE. Don't want to miss out on that opportunity.

The photo above is the corridor outside my office at work, which is having its overhead lighting refurbished. It's also doing an excellent job of convincing us we're all trapped in a post-apocalyptic dystopian nightmare. Given the state of the nation, and particularly the omnishambles of the last few weeks in UK politics, I'm not certain the corridor has got it wrong.

Comments

[davidgillon]

I've just seen a picture of a corridor at Yarls Wood Detention Centre that looked much cheerier and considerably better lit. (The story, not so much).

[nanila]

It's a bit grim getting in early in the morning when there's no one else about. (Fortunately, it's just a bit dull, not actively dangerous.)

[omnipotent]

Eerie.

Happy journalversary!

[nanila]

Yes, the lighting isn't helped by all the missing bits of plaster where the poster boards have been unceremoniously ripped off the walls.

Thanks!

[fred_mouse]

that makes the 'ground' floor where I used to work look better! (it was ground on one side, and underground on the other, but the side where it was ground had all the student computer labs in, and for some reason there were no windows on that side. It was a good temperature when it was 40C outside though.

[nanila]

Heh. It reminds me of the basement where I did my PhD. That was all exposed electrical cabling and pipework too.

[fred_mouse]

Here, that is somewhat a characteristic of physics buildings!

[nanila]

Oh yes. I think that's a universal physics building (basement) characteristic.

[fred_mouse]

I guess because physics buildings are typically old buildings? Current workplace, the physics building has the reputation of having the slowest lift. Hyperbole adds the phrase 'in existence'.

Having said that, old work place has a shiny new physics building, with (to my knowledge) no basement.

(Old workplace was established in the 1970s though)