Another Perspective

Yesterday I stood near the building where my classroom is to look toward the Library building in order to blip the the dirt hole and hill that our construction workers have created.

Today I drove to the campus at about 5:00 p.m. to pick-up some photocopies for tomorrow's classes. I was interested when I heard the heavy equipment workers still shoveling the dirt. So I walked from the Administration Building to the Library to see it up close. Construction workers usually clock out at 3:00, maybe 4:00. These guys are working overtime! Wow! Ground breaking was this past May. These guys have been working almost every day since then.

For this photo I am in the Library on the second floor. This is just above my first floor office. So from this upstairs window the CACT (Center for Applied and Competitive Technologies) Building where I teach can be seen -- it is the short, squatty little structure on the left side of the photo. Inside that building is some extremely impressive industrial equipment that our engineering faculty use for instruction and also two classrooms used by a variety of disciplines. So getting to that classroom from my office now feels like going to Denver in order to get to Seattle. It's okay. Walking is good exercise.

So blippers, I don't expect a lot of comments . . . what else can my blip friends say about the campus construction. So I will try to blip something of more interest tomorrow. But a year from now when the new building, the Student Success Center, is sitting there and about to have its official dedication, I'll be glad I captured this. I wish I had been blipping this campus since I first started teaching here in September of '91. My how it has changed. Every building you see in this photo, plus the Library were not there when the campus began life so long ago.

It is still awfully hot here in Southern California. High today was 98, and right now at 8:00 p.m., it is still 91 yucky degrees out there. The wild fires are still raging here. The nightly news reported that the fires have consumed enough land to equal the size of Chicago. We need rain desperately.

Thanks for reading this far. I hope everyone is doing well.
Rosie (& Mr. Fun), aka Carol