Saturday, September 22, 2007

Home

Sharin came to visit and she had a car so we went to the San Gabriel Valley and I got to see where I grew up for the first time since I left.


The view from my front yard.


My house is transformed and is going for 2200/mo.

It wasn't quite as much of a powerful experience than I had expected it to be. The man that lives in the house saw us walking around the cul-de-sac. He came out and asked us what we were doing. He said he almost called the cops.

On friday I went to graduate orientation and I found out that I am T.A.ing a class on air pollution for three terms. This is great news, I was fearing that I would be saddled with a class I wasn't prepared for. I have T.A. training on Monday.

It rained last night and it shut down the city. It was only half an inch but it was enough to cause black-outs and mudslides. I discovered that when rain hits my apartment it sounds like i'm in a tin can. I spent the night reading about cloud seeding and cloud physics. The book was originally published in the early 1960s and it gives a lot of mention to Kurt Vonnegut's brother who was a pioneer in silver dioxide ground based cloud seeders.

2 comments:

Saxon Baird said...

guess who lives in your room now? i cant believe you have perez hilton as a link...that is so funny...

school starts tomorrow...i'll miss you at food for thought...although i am sure you wont be missing it.

mritter said...

Although I won't miss having to work there, I wish there was an equivalent of food for thought on the UCLA campus... I have to scavenge through colloquium buffets and overpriced salad bars.

I'm not sure if you have spent much time in Westwood but it sucks. Luckily I have an office to take shelter from the ubiquitous frat rushes and Christians giving away bouncy balls.