Up early,
and down the freeways
for
Diablo Valley College Music Theory
Quiz 3,
errands around campus re the authenticity of signatures,
checking out the new
nice-on-the-
inside-
not-so-much-on-the-outside Student Services Building (best seen reflected in the windows of the impressive Book Store), squack in the middle of campus
(renewed appreciation for the pleasant edges),
paper grading at Moon (whoops, Yan's) Garden (re-encountering St. Mary's recent Music graduate soprano Karina),
and points farther south in Contra Costa,
Alameda
(Altamont
Pass),
San
Joaquin,
Stanislaus
(Shane P. Donlon Ranch,
Del Puerto
and
Patterson Canyons,
Crow's
Landing,
Newman),
Merced
(Santa
Nella),
Fresno
(Little
Panoche et al,
Joaquin
Rocks,
Harris Ranch,
Coalinga Ridge)... miles to go, a dark and speedy rollercoaster back of beyond, before blissful union with sleep.