Glass Installation

Greetings and welcome to The Un-Zone, home of all things relating to Un. It's the only site where you can find out what thoughts are swimming in the whirlpool of my mind and what's happening in my non-existant, dead-on-arrival social life. I'm now one of the newest blogs listed at Tony's Kansas City, an excellent website hosted by one of the fine writers at The Pitch. That was an obviously blatant plug. Yes, Tony of Tony's Kansas City, I should go out more often. Then again, you stick out like the proverbial sore thumb at law school social functions like TGIT if they're held at bars and you don't drink alcohol. Now that's something rarer than an ill-cooked steak at one of KC's finer steakhouses. An actual law school student that doesn't drink. Comment on that, Mr. KC Strip.

Well, today's post is about the glass installation going on at KU Law. It's part of their continuing remodelling project. I'm not a big fan of the Extreme Law School Makeover. When I walk in the informal commons, I think I'm walking into the lobby of a modern art museum. You've got one section that looks like a modern take of a mall food court with tables and chairs combining ersatz-woodlike material and steel painted to look like wrought iron. The main area consists of wood cubes functioning as tables and leather chairs oddly shaped like cubes. Think earth-tones. The only good thing about the remodel job is that the chairs don't fall apart when you breathe on them. However, if you're a fan of furniture inspired by quite possibly bald Scandinavians with a pechant for ergonomic, utilitarian, and minimalist design, then this is your place. I digress.

Well, yesterday and today, the construction crew installed in new glass panes for the redesigned stairway to the second floor. I think it wasn't money well spent, as it's akin to putting the facade of the Acropolis, replete with columns and carvings, on the front of your everyday McDonalds. No amount of glass is going to make ugly look any better. At least the old design fit in with the traditional "concrete dungheap shaped like a box" desgin of most law schools around the nation, with KU Law as no exception.
In order to do this, they had to block off the entrance to the informal commons. You couldn't use the first floor doors to enter the law school. In order to enter, you had to go up to the second floor (the main entrance) and walk down a different flight of stairs located by the mailboxes. Another thing about the design of the law school. The stairwells are illogically designed. Certain stairwells give you access to certain places. You have to pick the right one or you might end up facing a locked door. Go figure. And they did the installation during the busy part of the traditional law school day, the lunch hour.
One would have thought they could have done this during the weekend, when very few students go to the law school, unless of course, one is in Law Review. The installation of glass panels on an ugly staircase can wait until the weekend. They NEED to get the plate glass installed NOW, but the problems with the heating and cooling system...well...that can wait. The daily temperature in Green Hall kinda reflects the ranking of the law school in certain magazines. Two years ago, it was in the mid sixties; last year, it was getting close to triple digits. This year, who knows what it will be? Supposedly, they've got it under control, but come winter...I think the beast will turn out to be untamed.

Well, they need to install in more panels of the stairway, but at least I have access out this building. I can't wait till I'm a 3L. That's all for now.