Graffiti Prevalence

I noticed something at school when the semester started. We have four main buildings/areas for classrooms: math/science, a second predominately math area, the tech center (nursing/photography/computers), and an art building. Add on the library, theatre, student center, and admin, and you have pretty much our whole campus. But the classes are mainly in the first four.

There's a marked difference in the graffiti quantity in the men's bathrooms between the two math areas and the art/tech areas: the math areas have much larger quantities of graffiti in the men's room than the other two. There is a geographical difference, the art/tech areas are up on a hill and are very specialized in terms of their courses; whereas pretty much all students go through the two math areas.

My question to anyone who wants to take a stab at it: why?

We know it isn't so, but we'd like to think that college students are a little more mature than high school students. We have a lot of drug use (and manufacture) in Alamogordo, but I don't think we have a lot of gang activity. From what I've seen, we don't have your classic Crips and Bloods that infest so many other places, they probably got so bored that they left (Alamogordo is not a destination, it's a stop, at least for most).

Is it emotional maturity? People taking art, nursing, serious computer, or photography/graphics arts are "above" your common tagger and don't like to see where they dwell scholastically mucked up?


I dunno, I just find it a little interesting, perhaps even paradoxical. I seem to recall that all of the bathrooms of the three colleges that I attended in Phoenix were thoroughly graffitied, but you also didn't have to trudge up a hill at 4600' to get to the additional buildings.

Maybe taggers just don't have the lung capacity?

Rubber freezing to glass? Whould'a thunk it!

Russet warned me about this, and on a couple of occasions I've remembered to raise up my windshield wipers. Well, I didn't last night. This morning I'm getting ready to head to work and I walk around my car, checking that I don't have a lot of ice built-up in my wheel wells. As part of this I pulled up the passenger-side wiper and encounter a little resistance. Uh-oh. Go to the driver's side and it's frozen quite well onto the windshield, thenkyewveddymuch. So I guess I'll be buying a pair of blades on Friday and trying to be a little more mindful in the future.

The thing that I find curious is that my rear window wiper didn't show the least amount of being stuckedness, and it's more exposed to the elements than the windshield (we have covered parking for our two cars, I don't know why more people in our neighborhood don't).

Why can't people use email properly?

You receive an email where the To: line is to X, Y, Z; and the CC: line is to A, B, and Me. You do a Reply All, and you receive a copy that you (a) wrote and (b) have in your Sent folder.

WHY CAN'T PEOPLE PUT ALL RECIPIENTS IN THE TO: LINE?! I find this particularly annoying when it turns into a long-term discussion.

I REALLY hate colds!

They always seem to hit me hard. Case in point, I currently have almost zero hearing in my right ear at the moment. I haven't been able to clear it since I left home for work: I chewed gum all the way down the mountain, I tried the diver's clearing technique, etc. It is plugged up good, I'm half-way tempted to grab an ice pick and see if that'll help. The bad thing is that my left ear has a permanent hearing loss, so right now is not a good time to talk to me! ;-) Fortunately I record all my lectures on a digital voice recorder, so at least I'll theoretically be able to play back tonight's web class when I'm able to hear it.

If you consider my hearing to be 75% good when I don't have a cold, I'm at half that or lower.

I'm going to be very glad to get home tonight.