October 22nd, 2009
Zoom Gorilla in the Mist: the U of A Students’ Union Building I work on the third floor of this oddity, along with my fellow budding journalists. The building’s tower was an afterthought, and clearly wasn’t attached very well: for instance, there’s no way to access the second floor from the third (and vice versa) via the stairs. You have to go down all the way to the ground floor (lungpower permitting), then walk up a separate set of stairs; or, if you’re in for getting glared in the mental nuts, you can take the elevator from 3 to 2 and look like a colossal jackass. Provided that the elevator works, of course: it’s often broken, because there’s a bar at the top of the tower, and being drunk in an elevator entices people to make like Apache and jump on it until they trip the emergency stop. But the view’s nice.

Gorilla in the Mist: the U of A Students’ Union Building

I work on the third floor of this oddity, along with my fellow budding journalists. The building’s tower was an afterthought, and clearly wasn’t attached very well: for instance, there’s no way to access the second floor from the third (and vice versa) via the stairs. You have to go down all the way to the ground floor (lungpower permitting), then walk up a separate set of stairs; or, if you’re in for getting glared in the mental nuts, you can take the elevator from 3 to 2 and look like a colossal jackass.

Provided that the elevator works, of course: it’s often broken, because there’s a bar at the top of the tower, and being drunk in an elevator entices people to make like Apache and jump on it until they trip the emergency stop.

But the view’s nice.

Under the Fuzzy Green Hat is the curious web log of Lucas Wagner, a guy who probably has better things to do than post here all day.

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