Due to campus building plans, my unit is slated to be turfed out of its current digs and moved to new offices over the summer. Since we currently languish in a 25-year-old, decaying “temporary building”, the news was not altogether unwelcome.

What’s interesting is that the building we’re moving to is currently being used as an animal morgue. It is also right next to a couple of infectious disease labs. When the dreaded zombie apocalypse breaks out, we’ll be the first to know. Setting up a Twitter feed suddenly sounds like a good idea.

While this might not, on its face, seem particularly onerous, consider that this is a university with an agricultural mission; piles of dung are readily to hand, so it could be worse. Still, it shows the IT staff’s place in the scheme of things here. And we are actually moving closer to the cow pasture, so maybe this is just part of a gradual transition.