i went walking around east campus today, a place i'm rarely at other than to pass through when i bike to school. there's this steep hill that passes by the gilbert-addoms dorm, which is fun to speed down, but a pain in the ass to climb up... there's no way getting around it; my office is at a significantly lower elevation than my apartment.
my office has got to be in one of the noisiest places in my buildling. i'm sandwhiched between the loading dock and the huge liquid nitrogen tank. so somewhere between 1 and 3 in the morning, the huge liquid nitrogen tank man in his ridculously loud liquid nitrogen tank truck comes to give us a refill. it's a bit disconcerting to know that if the tank decided to take a leak, it'd probably spill onto my only window, cracking it in the process, and i'd be swimming dead (and quite cold) in a pool of liquid NO2. during normal people hours, all the delivery people pass through my hall, which wouldn't be so bad if the door didn't slam so loud. the worst of it all is at lunchtime, when all the international chinese students fire up their leftover dinners (which does not smell good, lemme tell you), and all the chinese men huddle around the chinese women in their office (adjacent to mine), trying to vie for their attention. the winner is usually the one who can speak the loudest.
about the photo... a statue which stands about fifty cubits in front of the west duke building on east campus. they really ought to put a sign that explains who and what this guy is doing there, as i have no clue of his significance. man, i would make an awful tour guide!
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