construction was beginning

Finally, after kicking us out of our office in March, it seems that the university's ripping-shit-up specialists have started to take tiny actions toward accomplishing our desired renovations, which are supposed to be finished in September. Mostly this has involved turning off our water/vacuum/air taps one afternoon for no good reason and putting up photocopied signs.

The funny part is that the lounge area, which is contiguous with the atrium, is being enclosed and turned into a conference room, so they logically put up barriers to contain the construction debris (that astronauts might not have to collect it later). They used white corrugated plastic, taped together in a way that reminds me of a well-made pillow fort. They have to get in and out of this bastion of asbestos, though, so there is a door. A cream-colored, highly civilized door, with its frame, looking like it was taken from a tidy country house and should have a charming cottage garden around it.

I am deeply tempted to tape up some pictures of hollyhocks.