"scratch" heh heh, a play on words unawares.

Ahh, the sun rising on another work day! Lockers standing at the ready for whatever junk they are going to lock away today!

You know, putting mud on nettle stings makes them feel much better. Also, when the mud dries it pulls most of the nettle "stinger" hairs out when you remove it (don't wet it to remove it! you will have to start over again from scratch!).

I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden in the shade
He'd let us in, knows where we've been
In his octopus's garden in the shade
I'd ask my friends to come and see
In an octopus's garden with me
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden in the shade

We would be warm below the storm
In our little hideaway beneath the waves
Resting our head on the sea bed
In an octopus's garden near a cave
We would sing and dance around
because we know we can't be found
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden in the shade

We would shout and swim about
The coral that lies beneath the waves
Oh what joy for every girl and boy
Knowing they're happy and they're safe
We would be so happy you and me
No one there to tell us what to do
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden with you
in an octopus's garden with you
in an octopus's garden with you

Octopus's Garden - sung by The Beatles (sung by Ringo)

Erin, my Schizophrenic grandmother used to be a chain smoker. And you are right, it did quiet her voices and calm her for a short time. Later when drugs got better and they discovered the ills of smoking, she quit. I give her a lot of credit, it had to have been hard to do with all of the problems she was having at the time. Most of the institutions she was in had designated smoking rooms for the patients.

Well, your lack of sleep didn't hinder your creativeness at all! The gallery turned out great. It is nice that you were able to find out so many different tidbits to add as well as comparison photos. It really rounded out the experience.

This was a scale in the floor?

Pegboard?????

Oh the humanity.

I am often filled with disbelief at what some think of as progress. If heating and cooling was the problem then why did they also cover up the columns and change the door frames? Even if they dropped the ceiling they could have left the other details. It would have still been lovely.

"To change
and to change for the better
are two different things."
-- German Proverb

How spooky and eerily foreboding! Right out of a horror movie!

This looks like it should be out in front of a department store or a bank or something. What an interesting door.

I just couldn't imagine some poor mentally ill person getting "stuck" in one of these doors. How confusing for them. Or even scary!

I notice it is only a two "compartment" door. Most of the ones I see these days have three or four "compartments". This one would easily allow a wheelchair to fit, or other equipment.

"All great deeds and all great thoughts
have a ridiculous beginning.
Great works are often born on a street corner
or in a restaurant's revolving door."
-- Albert Camus

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."
-- Tom Stoppard

I am amused by the plants growing on the tower. In south eastern Indiana there is a small town that has an interesting claim to fame. There is a full tree growing out of the roof of the tower on their town hall! I have been there to see it. It is a strange sight indeed.

I think they look rather like they are crying. Probably because they are that nasty color!

"And then she took a long breath and looked behind her up the long walk to see if any one was coming. No one was coming. No one ever did come, it seemed, and she took another long breath, because she could not help it, and she held back the swinging curtain of ivy and pushed back the door which opened slowly--slowly.

Then she slipped through it, and shut it behind her, and stood with her back against it, looking about her and breathing quite fast with excitement, and wonder, and delight.

She was standing inside the secret garden."
-Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

What an odd contrast. The complicated ornate piece right below that simple plain sign.

I instantly thought of Alice in Wonderland as soon as I saw this!

"Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made of solid glass; there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key, and Alice's first thought was that it might belong to one of the doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too small, but at any rate it would not open any of them. However, on the second time round, she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high: she tried the little golden key in the lock, and to her great delight it fitted!"
-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Would you look at that! Some boob is still working! Hey you! It's closed!

heh heh heh heh

Being an office person myself I can see how you wouldn't want to take it with you. The more you leave behind the less you have to sort through later on. Of course then you can always use the excuse that you left it in the other building to get out of stuff.

What an interesting space. For some reason this pic makes me think of the good ol' days when we were stuck inside at school and the windows with their views were beckoning us to come outdoors and play.

The entire right side from ceiling to floor looks like a gross seeping wound, ewww!

My Grandmother had E.C.T. in the past. She said that it was painful and her head hurt her for days afterwards, migrain type pain. Sometimes she said it would be so bad she couldn't hardly breath without it racking her brain with pain. She would be extremely light sensitive and not be able to think clearly or remember stuff normally for weeks. It didn't help her schizophrenia either, it actually made it worse after a week or so after her E.C.T. session(s). She also mentioned something that I hadn't really heard anyone mention before, her fingers and toes would tingle like when they have fallen asleep and are "waking up".

If you look carefully it appears that numbers are missing here not the word "NOT". The last digit being a 4. Many medicines are poisonous, in large quantities. They probably doled out there own doses from the secure storage and then diluted it accordingly for the patient at hand. Possibly, judging by the different lettering and the various signs of different shapes being taped/glued over sections of this sign, not all of these words here were necessarily in use at the same time. Maybe?

Yeah, I find that clean spot disturbing.

Did you shine a light in the little broken window and see what was in there?

A cool "action" shot!

This shot could be a boring comparison shot, but you've made it into an interesting composition contrasting the new and the old off of each other! And it made me a bit queasy! Isn't it neat how the brain works?

In a definition a bit more clearer as to how it applies here:

Inimical:
1. adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable; harmful: a climate inimical to health.
2. unfriendly; hostile: a cold, inimical gaze.
(taken directly from dictionary.com)