Mt. Mondavi

It is one of the truths of the universe that if you dig a pit, the dirt has to go somewhere. This is the construction site of the forthcoming Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Studies, just across the way from the Mondavi Center concert hall. It is now the tallest hill in Davis. I expect to see some renegade mountain bikers cruising up and down it any day now.

This institute will be the new home for the Department of Viticulture and Enology. The only claim to fame of Wickson Hall, the building where I work, is that it houses said department. So when they leave to occupy their new digs, I don’t suppose there’s any chance at all I’ll finally get to move to an office with a window?