There's a "flaw in the ointment"

I saw McNeil at the college today—we had both given final exams—and, all of a sudden, he stuck his camcorder in my face and commenced shooting me. So I whipped out my Nikon D70 and shot 'im back. As you can see, he's got some weird-assed gizmo connected to his right ear, too. Or maybe it's stuck in his neck. Don't know what that's about. 

Mark's a dismal scientist, you know.

I had occasion to drop by EOPS today, and a lady there told me she wanted me to see something "cool." "OK," I said, and I followed her outside to a wall creating an open patio area in front of the PE building. "Look at this tree growing in between the wall," she said. I didn't understand her at first, but eventually I got the picture: there's a tree (or branch) growing out from the middle of the top of this wall, I kid you not. Now, as you know, all brick at IVC is fake, and so, obviously, this shoot from a nearby tree  somehow grew up through the hollow space of this bullshit fake brick IVC wall. Still, it's pretty cool.

It's very Irvine Valley College.

Sorry about the underexposure. To borrow a phrase coined by a friend of mine, the picture is as "dark as a bat."

Well, as it turns out—to use a phrase coined by a friend of mine—there's a "flaw in the ointment" with regard to one of the new sculptures that were recently installed around campus. One of these things—I think it's called the Tower and it looks like a pile of Mission oak boxes—is collecting rainwater. Check it out.

I don't know if that's good or bad. Maybe the birds will bathe in these little pools, dunno. Maybe the dang thing will rust right through and we'll have to pay to fix it!

Just sayin'.

The Tower of Rustwater