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In the meantime I have that last assessment to finish – Onward and upward. Hopefully I’ll pull myself out of this down sooner rather than later. It’s been a crazy couple of years and we’ve all had our ups and downs. I’ve had quite a lot on this month and have more stories to tell so will return with them in due course. Sorry I’m not on my best form at the moment, but decided to not hold off any longer before sharing something new. With covid restrictions still in place and the mandatory wearing of facemasks, perhaps a life lived online is still preferable, and more than Marc had in 1981. Unlike Marc Almond who just seemed to spend his time in bedsitter land in between going out clubbing, I don’t think our town’s nightlife has really got started again yet after the pandemic. Other than popping to the supermarket for a pizza, most students now spend all day in front of a screen, as when the studying ends, gaming and the watching of YouTube clips takes over. We had to write a piece in the early weeks of this semester about a typical day in our lives, and some of the submissions shocked me. I look at the lyrics in this song and think of some of today’s students holed up in their rooms for most of the day, rarely venturing out. This time however it was self-penned and it reached No. This was only their second single release after the massive success of Tainted Love earlier on in 1981. Looking at the chart from this same week all those years ago, here is something that jumps out at me, Bedsitter by Soft Cell. 40 years ago however I was in my final year of completing a really enjoyable degree in geography and was pretty familiar with everything that remotely made it near the charts. I think many of us of a certain age have kind of lost the plot when it comes to new music and what young people are listening to at the moment.
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Wherever we went there were hundreds of people and you got to know a great many of them during that first term.
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It was probably a really inefficient use of our time, but many happy hours were spent in the library sourcing material and copying it out in longhand before decanting to the refectory for food, or to the student bar for a very sociable drink. Back then the idea of gaining a degree without ever leaving your room would have been unthinkable. I fear the younger ones who would have been excited about ‘going to Uni’ back in September, will have been disappointed.Īt times like this I often hark back to when I last was a student, around 40 years ago. Lectures are now finished for the semester and only one assessment still to submit but I haven’t got to know a single person from the new class this year and only know what three of them look like (ironically the other more mature students). We seem to be just going through the motions to get the grades, and the institution appears to prefer it that way, so this will now be the future of higher education in my neck of the woods. My college course has all been online again this year, but no mention of NaNoWriMo this time around and few now drop by for the ‘live’ lectures. Considering I use this place as my web diary, as well as a place to share music from my past, probably best that I’ve stayed away for a while. My old life has gone and isn’t coming back any time soon. I don’t know about you, but I’ve not been a fan of 2021, which is ironic considering what hit us last year. But here we are a year on, and suffice to say I’m not myself at the moment.