I'm so glad I'm not a student

On my days off I usually like to sleep in delighting in the fact that my colleagues are at work at that very moment arguing with another useless insurance rep on the phone while I, on the other hand, am not. Today, however, was a little different. As soon as Mark took off for work I jumped outa bed, threw on a pair of Bermuda shorts and a tank, grabbed my coffee thermos and camera and headed to UC Berkeley campus. I figure I'd get some photos in before the sun gets too strong since it's supposed to be pretty warm today.

Whoa! There's parking everywhere - that's a rarity in Berkeley! Campus is quiet - almost too quiet. It's very stale at this time of year, but it'll pick up quick once Welcome Week arrives in a few days. Most of my peers were excited to come back in the Fall because it was a brand new start to another fun-filled college year. After all, aren't your college years the best years of your life? I, on the other hand, was the exact opposite. I abhorred the foresight of me in a library for hours at a time trying to figure out the stereochemistry of a molecule or memorizing the Latin origins of hundreds of California plants. I know, I'm quite the optimist. :-P

Now that I'm years beyond that point and happily living my life NOT as a student, I come back to campus this Fall with a completely different state of mind. I LOVE IT! It's so peaceful and relaxing and gorgeous. How did I not notice how beautiful campus is? So I take out my camera, snap snap snap away, and every now and then get the stink eye from a stranger who prefers not to be photographed. Oops, sorry!

Daily Cal anyone?



Water photos are fun. One day I'll have an EOS 1 where I can photograph rainfall. :-)



University Library... see what I mean by quiet? The library is hardly this quiet during school.