| February 26th, 2009 |
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I'm sitting in the lecture for a course I may well be dropping in favour of one that suits my needs better, since the 12-point version of the unit has been cancelled. Advantages of doing so include no longer having a clash, and no longer having a lecture I can't miss due to a lecturer whose techniques are not appropriate for Lectopia recovery that clashes with a class I'd rather attend.
Plus, the benches/chairs here do NOT work for me, even slightly. *winces dramatically*
Accordingly, no liveblog today, because it may not remain relevant, and ow.
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Something I can hardly believe I only just worked out today:
The reason the 97, 98 and 99 bus routes pretty much invariably get served by the new-style buses is simply explained: they're the main routes that go to the hospitals. All three of those pass by Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, and the 98/99 go by RPH (Shenton Park) as well, and maybe others.
The new-style buses are the ones that are wheelchair-accessible, with hydraulics to lower the boarding side of the bus closer to the ground and an extendable ramp so wheelchairs can just roll on. Obviously when you're looking at a route that goes past the major hospitals, including Shenton Park Rehabilitation, you're looking at a route that's going to have quite high frequency of disabled passengers, so you want the buses that can handle that smoothly.
Something I've noticed, mind you: The wheelchair zones of the bus have seats that occupy the wheelchair space, for use by other passengers when wheelchairs aren't present. The seats flip up to make room for the wheelchair.
People are good about vacating these seats when someone in a wheelchair is boarding, but hardly anyone thinks to flip the seats up. On some level I find this outrageous, because that's something that's necessary but likely to be problematic for the disabled person, while being a trivial act for someone with fully-functioning limbs. (Many of the buses have signs requesting that people leave the seats up at all times they're not being sat on, but sadly pretty much no-one does this. Including me. We default to "these are seats that can flip up to provide a wheelchair zone", not "this is a wheelchair zone into which seats can be pulled down". Because we are all ablist in subtle ways, I think.)
I've found myself getting up from my seat in a different part of the bus to flip the seats for incoming disabled people on a number of occasions, and it can be quite hard to resist the urge to give the people who didn't do it when they got up a dirty look.
This morning - during my lecture in my now-defunct class - I was informed that the 12-point version of my course had been cancelled. I logged in to WebConnect to check my enrolment, and discovered that 3323 was now marked as DISCONTINUED but I hadn't been enrolled in 2223, which is vaguely irksome, but only vaguely since I decided against doing 2223. Instead, I switched to the 12-point unit (4,500 word research essay incoming...) on Industrial Revolution Britain.
Tomorrow morning, if all goes to plan and I'm not just too freakin' exhausted, I shall be having a bunch of blood tests done. Huzzah. These are for hypoglycaemia investigation, not junkiehood investigation.Current Music: Abandoned Pools - The Remedy Current Location: Destiny; kitchen table Current Mood:  tired
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Playing this made me hungry. For turkey.
I'm sorry, PETA, but I've become inured to more subtle propaganda than yours.
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