A snapshot of one morning, on a relaxed day with mild weather. Now imagine this when it's crowded or when it's raining or snowing.
Video description: POV from the lap of a wheelchair user. Very shaky. OP is going downhill on a fall day. Lots of trees and fallen leaves around. There are construction trucks to the left in the very beginning. Every now and then, you can see a German Shepherd on the left. Second obstacle shows a food robot crossing the sidewalk to drive in front of OP, but it stops suddenly and OP crashes into it. OP continues down the hill until she reaches another food robot, which is obstacle 3. This robot sits in the middle of the sidewalk while OP navigates around it. Then OP comes to a concrete ramp with iron railings, which is obstacle 3.5. It is very steep. After the ramp, OP goes to cross the street, where a black SUV blows through the crosswalk. Obstacle 4 is a ramp with red brick. OP struggles to move up and pauses at one point before continuing again to obstacle 5, where there is a big concrete building and manual doors. The German Shepherd service dog goes up to push the accessibility button multiple times to no avail. A student comes and opens the door, OP enters through two sets of doors into a hallway. Clip change to obstacle 6, OP is wheeling down a hallway and approaches a white elevator with out of order signs.
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I got on the wrong bus to campus and instead ended up at a cricket game with cats. Half way through the game I was told to take the commentator home, this old posh guy, and when I got him home, he told me a story about how him and Nelson Mandela were secretly married.
idk if it's the grad school, 3 hour lectures getting to me, or the fact that i have to be on campus for 12 straight hours every thursday but goddamn i just want to sleep. and sleep and sleep. and then wake up and draw every animal and fanart for things only i have witnessed and NOT do my readings
It's scary how easy it can be to abstract away from gun violence in schools. I don't have kids so I don't have that fear. I've been a remote worker for 15 years and have never had to endure an active shooter drill.
Seeing kids running on the UNC main quad area where most of my classes were, hearing the sirens and the announcement to take cover broke something in me. And apparently there was another situation on campus again earlier to where the sirens went off again and kids were sheltering in place. They've been given the all clear.
I grew up in a not safe neighborhood. There was lots of gun violence in Miami. I remember talking about the news in Chapel Hill compared to the news in South FL with the other two folks from Miami that transferred in the same year that I did. The big news that day had something to do with the county school buses. We laughed because we could not imagine that being the big story for the day back home. We were all so desensitized by the awful stuff we heard.
We scoffed at that news story but we also felt safe. Chapel Hill was really idyllic for us. To see that not be the case anymore is really upsetting
Local girl deciding to live an apartment not this school year but the next, local girl has looked at every apartment building in her city and decided on her top 3 with numerous back up options