Fiat Lux. Please?
Oct. 31st, 2006 09:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jadesfireI have just spent an hour in the dark. I'm not being metaphorical about this; half the light bulbs on the ground floor have gone, and so some of the book shelves are in near total darkness. This, as you can imagine, makes re-shelving fun. It didn't help that, last week having been brought to us by the letter 'P', this week seems to be brought to us by the letter 'k'. It's the beginning of one of our classification marks, and I'm surprised there was actually anything on the shelves at that point. It's also the part of the book stack that's in the deepest darkness. After twenty minutes or so, I emerged, blinking, into the main library, blinded by the 60 watt bulbs.
If the designer of the library is out there, I'd very much like to meet him. I'd like to hear why he designed book cases that reach all the way to the ceiling, and so block the cages over the florescent bulbs. How many electrical engineers does it take to change a light bulb? Two. One to look at the ceiling and tut, the other to explain to the staff that, because of the lousy design, they can't actually change the damn things at all. So far, we've lost about six florescent tubes and sixteen small round lights. Can't wait to find out what happens when the rest of them go....
Does anyone have a neuter kit for plot bunnies? Was trying to do anything but think about shelving, and remembered the line of Foreman's in "The Mistake" where he's accusing Chase of being fake, and says that he still has his tonsils. How does Foreman know???
Oh, and I was reading some spoilers the other day (am going to have to stop - it's driving me mad!), and read about the episode where House is going to put his diagnosis in an envelope and challenge the others to beat him. Sounds remarkably like what I put in my first ever (incomplete and now defunct) housefic "Conclusions". *sigh*. The story wasn't going anywhere, and I was going to rewrite it completely anyway, reusing the ridiculous amount of research that I'd done, but it's still annoying!
Right, now my fingers are warmed up, I can go type the rest of my halloween costume. And possibly do some work....
If the designer of the library is out there, I'd very much like to meet him. I'd like to hear why he designed book cases that reach all the way to the ceiling, and so block the cages over the florescent bulbs. How many electrical engineers does it take to change a light bulb? Two. One to look at the ceiling and tut, the other to explain to the staff that, because of the lousy design, they can't actually change the damn things at all. So far, we've lost about six florescent tubes and sixteen small round lights. Can't wait to find out what happens when the rest of them go....
Does anyone have a neuter kit for plot bunnies? Was trying to do anything but think about shelving, and remembered the line of Foreman's in "The Mistake" where he's accusing Chase of being fake, and says that he still has his tonsils. How does Foreman know???
Oh, and I was reading some spoilers the other day (am going to have to stop - it's driving me mad!), and read about the episode where House is going to put his diagnosis in an envelope and challenge the others to beat him. Sounds remarkably like what I put in my first ever (incomplete and now defunct) housefic "Conclusions". *sigh*. The story wasn't going anywhere, and I was going to rewrite it completely anyway, reusing the ridiculous amount of research that I'd done, but it's still annoying!
Right, now my fingers are warmed up, I can go type the rest of my halloween costume. And possibly do some work....
