Good Morning, Elevator

Every morning as I head out to breakfast/class, I take the elevator down since I live on the 6th floor. Occassionally when I'm not feeling lazy I'll take the stairs down. There are 2 elevators in the building, and one is faster than the other. Obviously people want the fast elevator because the elevators aren't that fast to begin with (compared to, say, the Statler Hall elevators), and time spent in the elevator is kind of like sunk time because there's not much one can do in the elevator. The elevators are so slow in general that people manage to hold conversations on the posters in the elevator by writing on them.

Anyway, I've noticed that 99% of the time, the fast elevator comes up to the 6th floor to take me down in the morning, which is a good thing and makes me happy. I figure this is the case because in the morning, everyone goes from high floors down to the bottom floors to head out and begin their day. This means that in the morning hours, chances are both elevators are sitting on floors 1 and/or 2 (where the doors to the building are) unless someone pushes the elevator call button, in which case the elevator shimmies up and then goes back to chillin' on floor 1 or 2 after dropping the groggy student to the door floor. When both elevators start on the bottom 2 floors, the fast elevator always beats the slow elevator in traversing to the 6th floor. The fast elevator is that much faster than the slow elevator, but the slow elevator usually has elaborate handwritten conversations on the posters in them.

It Was Nice Knowing You, Subway's Chicken Pizziola

-- Last night the fire alarm in Cascadilla Hall went off again. This time, it went off at 3:30 AM, which was 2 hours after I went to bed. On top of that, it was wet and cold outside because it was raining a little.

-- Last weekend was APEX, which was a series of performances by popular Asian-American artists such as Randall Park, Hsu-nami, Magnetic North, and (of course) Wong Fu Productions. Since I volunteered to be a bouncer, I got a free show while I kicked out other people who wanted to steal a free show. It was a pretty good show, especially Wong Fu's short videos. Wong Fu visited Cornell 2 years ago, when I was a lowly freshman, and showed their first full-length movie. For some reason, whenever I see Wong Fu when they visit Cornell, I'm always inspired to make a short movie by myself.

-- I actually enjoy working the 5-hour Friday night shift at the Law School computer lab. Most people would opt not to work the Friday night because...hell, it's Friday night. However, I like Friday night because the computer lab is usually near empty (if not completely unoccupied), it forces me to at least do a little homework, and to tell the truth I usually never go out to crazy parties on Friday nights.

-- Apparently Subway's Chicken Pizziola promotion ends today. It was a pretty good sub for the price. From an Asian point of view, it's a very good deal because you get a lot of meat (chicken and pepperoni) for a $5 footlong sub. Basically it was a chicken pizza, with marinara sauce and tomatoes and whatever else you want on it.