silly hats & academic buildings
I went in to work yesterday, but then I got kicked out for the rest of the week again. *sigh* I need money!! More than just the $5 from the Cheerios box. Srsly, my next paycheck is going to be hilarious, because I only worked two days in that pay period what with finals and the plague, so it'll be less than $80. D:
But my boss was in Louisiana last week and she brought me back an awesome hat.
Do you like my hat? (This is a recurring theme from Go Dog Go, which I thought for the longest time was by Dr. Seuss because I was small and did not know any better, and it's one of those books that has the Cat in the Hat on the cover because it's an easy reader by the same publishers of Dr. Seuss, but actually Go Dog Go is by P.D. Eastman. Just so you know. Not that anyone else cares. *cough*)
Today I went to school to return some books to the uni library, one of which was due on Tuesday. (Overdue books make me twitchy, not because I am a librarian, but because I am just the weird sort of person who feels extremely guilty about these things.) And there was no fine, yay! So then I took some pictures, just because. Only of course it wasn't just a quiet between-semesters day with no one around. No, today was the annual Master Gardening Class or something like that. And so naturally all the master gardeners were sitting around on their lunch break in front of the most important part of the campus, so I had to hang around for an hour and wait for them to leave.
This is the main library, McKeldin, where I check out all my weird books and stuff.
And this is the view from McKeldin down the central plaza thing. The school is ginormous (like, 25,000 students or some such ridiculously huge number that I try not to think about too much), and it's built in three vague rings around this green.
This is Testudo, a terrapin (a.k.a. a turtle) and the school mascot. There are several Testudos around the campus, but this is the main one. You're supposed to rub his nose for good luck with exams and such.
It's nowhere near as cool as leaving offerings to Athena, though, as we did at Bryn Mawr.
This is Hornbake Library. I've never used the library part 'cause it's all non-circulating special collections, but the wing on the right is where the iSchool is based. Faculty and admin offices are on the second and fourth floors along with classrooms, and there's more classrooms in the basement, too.
But sometimes we also use classrooms in the Plant Sciences Building next door.
This is the Student Union, which I like to call the Stu-U, but for some reason that hasn't caught on.
And the real reason I came here. ;)
♥
But my boss was in Louisiana last week and she brought me back an awesome hat.
Do you like my hat? (This is a recurring theme from Go Dog Go, which I thought for the longest time was by Dr. Seuss because I was small and did not know any better, and it's one of those books that has the Cat in the Hat on the cover because it's an easy reader by the same publishers of Dr. Seuss, but actually Go Dog Go is by P.D. Eastman. Just so you know. Not that anyone else cares. *cough*)
Today I went to school to return some books to the uni library, one of which was due on Tuesday. (Overdue books make me twitchy, not because I am a librarian, but because I am just the weird sort of person who feels extremely guilty about these things.) And there was no fine, yay! So then I took some pictures, just because. Only of course it wasn't just a quiet between-semesters day with no one around. No, today was the annual Master Gardening Class or something like that. And so naturally all the master gardeners were sitting around on their lunch break in front of the most important part of the campus, so I had to hang around for an hour and wait for them to leave.
This is the main library, McKeldin, where I check out all my weird books and stuff.
And this is the view from McKeldin down the central plaza thing. The school is ginormous (like, 25,000 students or some such ridiculously huge number that I try not to think about too much), and it's built in three vague rings around this green.
This is Testudo, a terrapin (a.k.a. a turtle) and the school mascot. There are several Testudos around the campus, but this is the main one. You're supposed to rub his nose for good luck with exams and such.
It's nowhere near as cool as leaving offerings to Athena, though, as we did at Bryn Mawr.
This is Hornbake Library. I've never used the library part 'cause it's all non-circulating special collections, but the wing on the right is where the iSchool is based. Faculty and admin offices are on the second and fourth floors along with classrooms, and there's more classrooms in the basement, too.
But sometimes we also use classrooms in the Plant Sciences Building next door.
This is the Student Union, which I like to call the Stu-U, but for some reason that hasn't caught on.
And the real reason I came here. ;)
♥