Balloons
Since my birthday, just over 2 weeks ago, I've had twenty one balloons floating around my room. My family put them up so that I discovered them when I got home on my birthday morning, and after a few days I cut them down so they could roam freely around my floor. Its quite surprising that after more than 2 weeks most of them are still almost completely inflated.
When they were blowing them up, my family gave out cat one to play with, which he absolutely loved. He batted it around and chased it and attacked it for ages - until it popped in his face. The next morning, my sister gave him another balloon and he ran and hid under a chair and didn't come out until well after it was gone. Now he treats them with suspicion. He doesn't seem to like the way they move around when my fan's going, but he's learnt to accept them.
The balloons do seem to have a life of their own though - if one somehow ends up outside my room - either because it was blown there or kicked there, it wafts straight back in again. What's more, if I leave them alone for most of the day, letting them blow around on their own, or get moved around by other things, but not deliberately moving them myself, they always end up in groups on the floor - grouped according to colour. The green and yellow ones usually end up together on one part of the floor, the pink and blue together on another part, and the purple and orange either forming their own group or mixing with the other two. It's really bizarre. Right now a group of pink and orange seems to be in the process of forming next to me, which could be difficult, because one of the orange balloons has been trapped behind my desk by my fan.
Whenever I see them grouping I always go through and mix them up, but later in the day, or the next morning, they're almost always back in colour-coordinated groups again!
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The Engineering building has received another revamp. Now the lecture theatres at the back of the level four atrium have been refurbished. One of these lecture theatres, 3.404, is where most (at least half) of my second and third year lectures took place. It used to have no air conditioning (which made afternoon lectures a struggle), really uncomfortable fold-down wooden board things for seats (although there was the legendary seat in the middle with cushioning), and bench-table things with graffiti writing on them dating back to ancient history. Now it still has no air conditioning, but it has new comfortable seats and those tiny individual desks that plague the new Business School.
What's more, the design offices on the fifth floor have received a revamp. They are now outfitted as lecture/seminar rooms, with new seats, a lecturn, and I think even data projectors. Unfortunately one of the nice things about these rooms was their class, which has been completely lost. They had posters on the walls dating back to the 90's, along with random bits of wood in the back, and the most random, incomplete set of chairs I have ever seen - most of the chairs were broken - either they no longer spun, or they were missing a back, or they no longer raised up, so that when you sat on them the table was almost at eye-level. Now all that's been replaced by new paint, new chairs, and Arts students. Yes, every time an old, much used, area of Engineering gets made over, the Arts students move in.
Speaking of the Business School, it has an ASB bank inside it! From the main courtyard thing with the random grass square in the middle, you go through the doors into the random tabled area (these tables appear to serve no purpose - they can't be for eating because there's no cafeteria anywhere nearby - or even a microwave to heat your food, and they can't be for studying because they're circular and in the middle of one of the main accessways into the Business building), and then behind the pillar that says something about ASB, is the bank itself. Handy!
Now I'm off to work. Bye.
When they were blowing them up, my family gave out cat one to play with, which he absolutely loved. He batted it around and chased it and attacked it for ages - until it popped in his face. The next morning, my sister gave him another balloon and he ran and hid under a chair and didn't come out until well after it was gone. Now he treats them with suspicion. He doesn't seem to like the way they move around when my fan's going, but he's learnt to accept them.
The balloons do seem to have a life of their own though - if one somehow ends up outside my room - either because it was blown there or kicked there, it wafts straight back in again. What's more, if I leave them alone for most of the day, letting them blow around on their own, or get moved around by other things, but not deliberately moving them myself, they always end up in groups on the floor - grouped according to colour. The green and yellow ones usually end up together on one part of the floor, the pink and blue together on another part, and the purple and orange either forming their own group or mixing with the other two. It's really bizarre. Right now a group of pink and orange seems to be in the process of forming next to me, which could be difficult, because one of the orange balloons has been trapped behind my desk by my fan.
Whenever I see them grouping I always go through and mix them up, but later in the day, or the next morning, they're almost always back in colour-coordinated groups again!
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The Engineering building has received another revamp. Now the lecture theatres at the back of the level four atrium have been refurbished. One of these lecture theatres, 3.404, is where most (at least half) of my second and third year lectures took place. It used to have no air conditioning (which made afternoon lectures a struggle), really uncomfortable fold-down wooden board things for seats (although there was the legendary seat in the middle with cushioning), and bench-table things with graffiti writing on them dating back to ancient history. Now it still has no air conditioning, but it has new comfortable seats and those tiny individual desks that plague the new Business School.
What's more, the design offices on the fifth floor have received a revamp. They are now outfitted as lecture/seminar rooms, with new seats, a lecturn, and I think even data projectors. Unfortunately one of the nice things about these rooms was their class, which has been completely lost. They had posters on the walls dating back to the 90's, along with random bits of wood in the back, and the most random, incomplete set of chairs I have ever seen - most of the chairs were broken - either they no longer spun, or they were missing a back, or they no longer raised up, so that when you sat on them the table was almost at eye-level. Now all that's been replaced by new paint, new chairs, and Arts students. Yes, every time an old, much used, area of Engineering gets made over, the Arts students move in.
Speaking of the Business School, it has an ASB bank inside it! From the main courtyard thing with the random grass square in the middle, you go through the doors into the random tabled area (these tables appear to serve no purpose - they can't be for eating because there's no cafeteria anywhere nearby - or even a microwave to heat your food, and they can't be for studying because they're circular and in the middle of one of the main accessways into the Business building), and then behind the pillar that says something about ASB, is the bank itself. Handy!
Now I'm off to work. Bye.
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