Bueller’s Day Off Again
Sunday, March 5th, 2006Friday morning (March 3rd) I made the long trek to UCLA to pick up Pourpa for the weekend so he could participate in my birthday party. I got somewhat of a late start, leaving at 9:00 AM. After hitting the main slow traffic in Lakewood/Long Beach, I thought that I was not going to be able to make my lunch meeting with Pourpa. So we cancelled it.
But then the traffic cleared up, even throughout most of LAX and I made it to his apartment by 11:00 AM. So we loaded up the car and drove to campus where I paid $8 to park in Lot 6. We visited the old Men’s Gym, which is now the Student Activities Center. I went to the Air Force ROTC Detachment HQ to look at the old SCIDM trophies. A helpful cadet showed me the trophies. Unfortunately, I was only able to find one of mine from 1986, the 2nd Place Exhibition Drill. I’ll reminisce about the 20-year anniversary of the SCIDM wins in a later post.
After reliving 1986, Pourpa headed to class and I started walking towards Royce Hall. After only a few minutes, he called me and said that his class was cancelled. So we met up at Panda Express in Ackerman Union and had lunch.
Ackerman was so crowded, especially with the wet weather. Nobody was sitting outside on the wet tables. So we ate out near Kierckhoff Hall. After lunch Pourpa had a two-hour break, so he accompanied me to Royce so I could shoot some pictures for my next photo assignment. I’m not using the picture below for my assignment, but I like how I Photoshopped the gray rainclouds and made them a nice blue, which added more color contrast to the shot.
For the rest of Pourpa’s break, we goofed around in the Engineering computer lab where I downloaded the pictures for my assignment to my laptop and Pourpa surfed the Internet. For some strange reason, I could not log onto the Internet with my Apple using Pourpa’s account in the lab. So when it was time for him to go to his last class at 2:00 PM, I went back to Ackerman where I knew I could get some decent Internet access.
So wouldn’t you know it, just as soon as I started to play around on the laptop to experiment for my assignment, Pourpa called and said the T.A. ended the discussion section early and cancelled the quiz. This would be the same quiz that Pourpa slaved over preparing last night. The lame T.A. is so lame that he doesn’t know how to answer questions. As I was telling Josephine the night before, Pourpa could just cut the class so we could head home early. Instead we wasted four hours with two of his sections being cancelled at the last minute and we left at 3:45 PM versus if we had been able to see into the future, we could have just bailed on the rest of the afternoon classes and left for San Diego at 11:00 AM.
Oh well, such is life. At least Pourpa and I enjoyed some extended time and conversation together at UCLA and in the car on the way home.
Our second to last destination after refueling the car was to buy some office supplies at Staples. As we got out of the car, Pourpa spotted the scene in the sky below. I was oblivious, but fortunately, I did have my camera. Enjoy.
And that was my day off @ UCLA.
Tags: AFROTC, education_and_training, Life, Panda-Express, Photography, Pourpa, rain, sunset, UCLA
