A little sparrow hopped past my chair today as I was eating my lunch. It was too quick for me, though. Shame you can’t just download images straight from memory.Instead, I took photos of various buildings around campus – any whose names struck me as interesting. The Music faculty’s ‘Jeanette MacDonald Recital Hall’ had me wondering all day where I knew Jeanette MacDonald from, since as far as I know I’ve never seen any of her films. The ‘Juliette “Julie” Kohl Trojan Band Center’ made me ponder over the necessity of both shortened and long versions of the same name, and also what a Trojan band would sound like. (I’m being silly, of course – Trojans is the nickname of all USC’s teams.) On similar lines, I saw a “Trojan hospitality” lorry, and wondered whether they specialised in stables, whether they would be particularly accommodating towards a girl called Helen, whether they provide faces to help launch local ships...
This building beat the “Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Hydrocarbon Research Center” (how specific a research center can one feasibly endow, I wonder?) and the “Department of Astronautical Engineering” (above Aeronautics any day...) to become today’s blog photo. I just love the sheer audacity of having an engineering building on stilts. Hope they don’t have a wave tank in that thing.
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