Good morning, good morning
Good morning, and welcome to the first day of the 2007-2008 school year.
It's 7:30 in the morning here in Austin, Texas, and I'm sitting in the quad outside the Harry Ransom Center, where my first class will commence at 9 a.m.
I'm enjoying a fabulous caramel macchiato from Starbucks and wondering just how hot it's going to get today. It's a bit steamy right now and it's not even 8 a.m. Not terribly hot, but the air is wet and that's gross.
Let me tell you a bit about the HRC. It houses one of five complete Gutenberg bibles found in the United States. It also houses the first photograph ever taken. The HRC is a fantastic storehouse of information, and instead of only looking at famous photographs in books, my class in photographic criticism will have the opportunity to see some of those images in their original.
On Guadalupe, a bus must have just stopped, as a flood of people just came walking from that direction. It's very pleasant to come to campus early, to watch the sun come up and the lights go down, to see the first of 50,000 students begin to trickle in for morning classes.
It all makes me quite happy. Or, that could be the caffeine talking.
:)
It's 7:30 in the morning here in Austin, Texas, and I'm sitting in the quad outside the Harry Ransom Center, where my first class will commence at 9 a.m.
I'm enjoying a fabulous caramel macchiato from Starbucks and wondering just how hot it's going to get today. It's a bit steamy right now and it's not even 8 a.m. Not terribly hot, but the air is wet and that's gross.
Let me tell you a bit about the HRC. It houses one of five complete Gutenberg bibles found in the United States. It also houses the first photograph ever taken. The HRC is a fantastic storehouse of information, and instead of only looking at famous photographs in books, my class in photographic criticism will have the opportunity to see some of those images in their original.
On Guadalupe, a bus must have just stopped, as a flood of people just came walking from that direction. It's very pleasant to come to campus early, to watch the sun come up and the lights go down, to see the first of 50,000 students begin to trickle in for morning classes.
It all makes me quite happy. Or, that could be the caffeine talking.
:)
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