I tried rollerblading to the parking center today, which actually works pretty well. It only takes about 10 minutes to get there as opposed to half an hour walking. (Though then it still takes another 5-10 minutes just to get up to the roof, find my car, and then drive down through seven levels of parking garage.) I took a guy from my program over to the Fox Hill mall (off the 405) so he could get new glasses, since he currently has no car. (He and his brother drove cross country so he could attend school here. A freak wind shear blew them off a road into a ravine. The car rolled over and over and was totaled, but amazingly no one was seriously hurt.)
At the mall bookstore, I discovered that they’ve re-released George R. R. Martin’s magnificent A Game of Thrones in value-priced $3.99 mass-market paperback editions, so I bought a stack of ’em to loan out to anyone here who’ll take one.
Then I had lunch with someone else from the program, though I was a bit late because I couldn’t find parking anywhere in my neighborhood, due to some stupid football game or something, and had to drive all the way back to the parking center and then rollerblade to my apartment.
Tonight there’s a major to-do over at the University Club. Some sort of reception plus faculty members reading their work.
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