wet

Very wet!  Not that I'm sorry to see the rain - but it's not just wet, it's cold.  And it was a long day.  Two search discussions and voting, one in each of my departments; long meetings.  And rain.

This isn't actually the photo I thought I'd be posting.  I was splashing from class to meeting, and saw a slightly chilling sight: two campus cops, with a large, menacing, growling dog who was being trained to attack - luckily the object of the attack seemed to be a large wedge of cardboard, but you wouldn't want those teeth anywhere near you.  Very shortly afterwards I saw in Annenberg Media that an unhoused man with a history of sexual battery had been arrested on campus.  I'm suspecting the two things are linked.  But here's my question: given that we are paying security services for a secured perimeter that's a total pain to work within (having to check back in with a USC card when we've walked fifty feet to mail a letter, for example), why are there arrestable people on campus in the first place?  Anyway, they were probably trying to keep dry.

In any case - as I tend to do if I see armed police anywhere near students, doing anything unusual, I got out my cell phone as a kind of reflex action - thought I'd taken a pic, but no.  Maybe Elon Musk got inside my phone.