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Labor Day. What’d you do? I ran. Had a pretty good run, for me.
I do not know what is happening.
I rode my bike. It was not a very good ride in most senses. But, in the most important way it was perfect: I was riding my bike.
So it was a lovely day. Hope yours has been great, too.
Here are a few shots from Saturday’s sunset. We get beautiful sunsets.
Some people saw an eagle here. Hard to disagree:
Click to see a larger version of this panorama.
The weekly post that puts extra pictures up instead of anything terribly substantive. So let’s get on with it, then.
For as long as I’ve had this I’ve wondered about the team that counted out the information spaces. How many letters did they need? Surely the design was based on something inherently practical like dashboard width and availability, but I’ve always liked to think it was about making sure the right artists’ names would be properly displayed. So when the words work out just right, like half this band’s name, it makes me smile:
The library will be closed tomorrow for bacon:
Met this gentleman the other day. He gave me directions when I was off on some new road on my bicycle. He gave me his card and said to call him if I needed help. On the front his title was listed as Grandbuddy. On the back was this picture. It isn’t the easiest thing to see in this shot, but all the kids are wearing mustaches, too:
Nothing about this makes any sense, and should be properly disposed of immediately. The guy was at Texas A&M, signing Alabama headshots for an Auburn restaurant and saying Aloha. That’s Dennis Franchione for you:
For reasons that were never made clear, someone brought Ric Flair’s championship belt to the tailgate yesterday. People were wearing it. Strangers were stopping by offering to buy it. It was a legitimately heavy piece of bling:
The home opener. It was hot. Hotter, maybe, than it has been throughout the mildest summer anyone could remember. The thermometer said one thing and the humidity said another number, but no one believed either of them. It was hot.
I might have sweated more sitting in the shade while tailgating than I did while we were running this morning. It was a very, very warm day.
So on to the pictures. This is Kim, who puts on the best tailgate around:
And the best tailgater at the best tailgate:
Nova had the pregame flight. Looks like he’s going through the goalposts in the south end zone:
But you’re here for the fan shots. Here they are:
Auburn shirt? Check. Washington State cap? Check? This guy was confused:
This lady looks like someone I knew in school. Right down to the haircut. But not the hair color. Also, I know it isn’t her, but it was still startling.
The game itself? All you need to know in one picture. Wazzu’s quarterback wasn’t very good. Auburn’s freshman defensive lineman Montravius Adams is a beast. They couldn’t stop him, and once he got on the field you couldn’t help but watch him go. That’s what a five-star player looks like, apparently.
Auburn won 31-24, in a game that shouldn’t have been nearly that close.
When you get back on campus the places that you haven’t seen a lot recently welcome you back like you never left. Your colleagues are relaxed or stressed, and all points in between. But they’re all happy to be there. The Samford campus is an unusual place: everyone is generally pleased to be there. Anyone, anywhere can have that occasional bad day, but everyone I’ve ever met in five years at SU has this pleasant know-I’m-fortunate-to-be-here way about them. I noticed it my first year and I’ve never found an exception.
There are new faces in your classroom, of course, but there are plenty of familiar things:
There’s been a regional blood shortage all summer. I’m sure they’ll be parked out front frequently.
Had a great first day back. Met with one of the section editors of the paper. He’s got big plans in store. Finished preparing things for class. Printed a lot of stuff. Xeroxed even more. Talked with some of the faculty.
Taught a class. Or at least gave them all the first day speeches. Not all of the jokes got laughed at. At least two students in the room are from across the country.
Met with the new crop of student workers we’ll have this year. Visited the library. Talked with another faculty member. Did some newspaper research.
And on the first day of classes I finally left at 7:30 p.m, ready for a great semester.
It is a special thing, being on a happy college campus. I’m fortunate. And if I hadn’t been hungry, 7:30 wouldn’t have seemed like a big deal.
But I was hungry.
The Sunday post with extra pictures!
Allie, disagreeing with something the humans said:
Even slower than the sulfured stuff! We’d describe how, but it wouldn’t take long enough! That’s how slow our product is. It is barely viscuous! A semi-solid, even!
When you read the sign it is obvious: someone got to the clearance wine.
A butterfly we saw at the nursery:
Here’s a video of that butterfly!
