Honest truth was that at this point, the batteries were shot on my camera, so it was a quick trip to the Bookstore for me! I walked fast up towards White Plaza, and the fountain with the sculpture in it that probably has a a real name, but that generations of Stanford students have called "The Claw". Every year before the Big Game with Cal, the Stanford Band puts on a show in White Plaza, which culminates with a teddy bear getting impaled on the very top of the sculpture....



Here's a more "touristy" view of the Claw from the steps of the bookstore, looking across to the newly revamped Old Union.



Now that I had my batteries, I noticed on the clocktower that time had run it's course. It was high time to get back to work. However, on the way, I decided to snap pictures of the two buildings I USED to work at, when I first started posting here at X Marks the Scot...

Here is Meyer Library, home of the Academic Computing and Residential Computing departments. My office was on the second floor. It was here that I went through "First Kilt Stress and Angst"



---and finally..... a view of the really gorgeous old front entrance to Green Library, the main undergraduate library, with Hoover Tower in the background...