heat stroking out

for some reason, i respond very, very poorly to heat. as i explained to LD today, any heat above 80 degrees literally just makes me hate everything and everyone on earth 24/7 until it goes away. unfortunately, it's been around 95 for the last few days in pullman. that = RAGE.

for one, why the FUCK do no campuses have places to park anymore? i mean, i realize that complaining about parking on campus is like complaining about genocide (in that everyone does it, i mean)...but there is the general 10,000 spots-for-20,000 students complaining, and then there is the it's-the-middle-of-summer-are-you-serious complaining. i have been unable to find any kind of parking on three different college campuses this week, parking that i needed for the purposes of running short errands each time.

okay, let's get one thing out of the way before i continue ranting on the internet: i don't like parking passes. i don't buy them. ever. because, since 1999, i've walked to school every day, and i don't see the need, if i drive my car to campus once a week, to pay three figures a semester to park (maybe) on campus in premium (maybe) parking areas. it's stupid. if i was a commuter, yeah, i could see it being worth the money. but i'm not. unfortunately, it seems like nowadays, every campus i spend any time on is being renovated to make pass-parking more prevalent and non-pass-parking at best incredibly time-consuming and inconvenient and at worse non-existent. i don't get this. there's clearly a market for people like me, who need to access campus via car maybe once or twice a week, or for 15 minutes a day, and who pay meters to do so. every single day of my eight (?) semesters at WSU all the parking meter spots outside avery were full. and for those who didn't pay the meter, the university raked in even more money by ticketing them. so to say that metered spots don't bring in cash doesn't fly. now those meter spots are gone, replaced by a pass-only lot and a pedestrian mall.

i hate to say it, but in this instance, KSU is somehow the innovator when it comes to non-pass parking. when i went there, there was a large pay-per-hour lot located centrally but unobtrusively on campus that one could always access, could always park at, and could, provided one returned within an hour, only have to pay a quarter for parking. it was the perfect solution.

with a parking lot like that, i could avoid situations like today, where there is literally nowhere on campus that i could park my car legally (both because of construction and because of pass-only lots) where i could access my building on foot after parking in fewer than 15 minutes. i have a box of books i need to get to my office, and there's really no way to get that box there. there's a perimeter of mixing trucks circling the building at 500 or so feet, then a ring of pass-only lots, and then local neighborhoods (whose curbs, surprisingly, are already all full of cars).

obviously i'm just flailing around pointlessly, but i've never understood this all-or-nothing approach to campus parking. i guess my life is just going to continue to be IMPOSSIBLY HARD! WAAAAH!

anyway, i'm also pissed that dabco jacked up their laundry rates to 1.25. again, no big deal, but when the heat sets in i tend to have blood in my eyes.

kill.

and such.