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This morning, I'm hanging out on the gorgeous small old California College of Arts campus in Oakland. I had a job interview for teaching in their Young Artist Studio Program this summer. I got the job, and now am just sitting between the Contemporary Gallery and the Printmaking Studio, freezing my as* off but enjoying the view of the mountains across the way. I feel like I've gone back in time, to a faux folk historical period when women wore long dresses and knitting was a way to ensure cold-weather survival, not just a trendy means to inner peace.

While thinking about these things, two men are wheeling out a giant machine, it's taller than they are and wrapped in clear plastic. Finally I figure out what it is, an old reel-to-reel magnetic tape recording machine, must have been built in like 1965. It's taken them this long to get rid of it, and of course it should go, who needs it? But at the same time, it's a little sad to see it in that state, probably never to be used again.