Well, I said I would get to this at some point and today I did. I've apparently got like 4mbs of images here, so I'm sorry Idol.
I guess I should start by saying I started going back to school last fall. I've sorta assume most of you have figure that out by now, but I'm pretty sure I haven't come straight out and said it myself. I'm going to school full time, so I'm only a seasonal employee at my old job at the copy store. Generally that means I work there full time during the months of August and January and once in a while during the remainder of the year. Currently I show up for four hours on Mondays, but that'll probably disappear in a couple weeks.
That also means each weekday is somewhat different and my routine is on a weekly basis rather than a daily one. So I'm just gonna take you on something of a tour to show where I generally could be.
Things start out in the new apartment and my “room”, which is really just where I do all my stuff while Aimee and I share the bedroom. Props to Idol for finding Autostitch. The little program is amazing.
This side is the extra TV and my computer area.
And this side has more or less become devoted to my painting and Warhammer exploits.
I'm rather proud of my little room, so I also uploaded higher resolution shots to show off.
Side 1 and
Side 2This is my living room which has become the place for normal TV and consoles. We're still somewhat decorating things and trying to figure out what we can put on the walls and those shelves.
As I said, my schedule is pretty varied and I can leave the house from anywhere between 8AM to noon. Today I left around 11AM and this is the last look I got of my little apartment building.
I live fairly close to a BART station so I pretty much use it for all my commuting. It's the open structure above the freeway here.
From the top platform you can get a pretty good view of the entire bay. Today you could almost make out San Francisco, where I'm heading.
This is the train coming from the east.
My commute is about 35-40 minutes long so it's not horribly bad. Usually I can do something during the time because I'm just riding the train the entire time. While you're underground most of the time, you do get a cool view of the Oakland shipyard right before you enter the Transbay Tunnel. The giant dock cranes here were supposedly George Lucas' inspiration for the AT-ATs in Star Wars.
I go pretty far down the BART line in San Francisco and my school is actually a bit of a ways from downtown. This is the station I exit at.
When you leave the station you get a quick view of my school. It's that cluster of bigger buildings on the hill to the right.
After a quick walk you get to campus. The place is more or less built on and around a central hill. This is one of the bigger buildings there and the building I share the closest ties to since it's the science building (aptly named Science Hall). This is a view from the south entrance looking to the center of campus.
On the southeast corner is the library, where I'm generally napping, playing my DS, or actually doing work between classes.
Since the campus is on a hill it actually has some decent views all around. This is a view from the east side of things.
Walking around you get to the north side of campus where the arts buildings are. Most of my classes this semester are actually here because I'm taking a couple art history classes and a writing course.
On the west side of campus you can see the school parking lot, a chunk of city, and the Pacific Ocean. I'm not exactly sure what the bigger building is there, so I like to imagine it's something like the Tower of Fanatics where people chant evil sounding stuff while marching around in circles out front.
Finishing up the circle, this is view from the south side of campus looking out from the Science building you see when you first enter campus.
Today my reason for being on campus was to actually tutor people taking the intro to Geology course. I'm something of a lab assistant for the lab portion of the class, which is more or less an overview of basic Geology skills like identifying minerals and making cross-sections. This is the main Earth Sciences classroom and where the lab meets.
Finally, this here is often the last thing I see before I head home at night. It's the same view from the south end of campus, but all the lights making it all pretty and stuff. The geology room actually faces this direction, so when you leave you walk out to see this.
And that's more or less it. Not much special, but at least you get some cool views of the south end of San Francisco.
So, who's next?
