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.
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