1) The entrails of the flattened rat gradually becoming embedded in the asphalt under Highway 24 on Forest St have turned yellow.
The rat itself, believed to have been fatally injured in a road traffic incident three weeks ago, has also apparently shifted positions since last night, since I unexpectedly ran over it myself this morning, whilst following my usual (and formerly vermin-free) racing line. It is thought that crows may have been involved, although no official statements have been made.
2) Late August is here, and with it a surfeit of ill-directed children who seem intent on recreating Brownian motion in the macroscale on the UC Berkeley campus.
Several impacts have been witnessed between undergraduates who, cell phones stapled to their right ears at all times when outdoors, are displaying remarkably low levels of spatial awareness when walking to or from class. Your reporter here is amazed that he himself has only collided with these persons once, when he was broadsided on his bike by an undergraduate cyclist, who was swerving out of the way of some equally wayward peers. However, with record enrollments, and several wireless telephone companies targeting the new intake, seasoned undergraduate watchers predict that I will be involved in least five more collisions before Christmas.
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