Has it really been a year since I last attended an opening of the academic year at the College?
Why, so it has. Imagine that.
Of course, last year I had no official role there, and now I had: I was to take a couple of picture for the internet. To put online while we waited for the official photographer to send us the official photos.
Well, I was a model of restraint. Only a little over a hundred photos, including some last-minute ones at the reception of Javier Solana with students, of professors and ex-professors, and of (weirdly) a numbe rof professors and the rector of a Turkish university.
“You,” they said, “take pictures of these people”. And so I did. Never mind that I’m not a photographer or anything. Ha!
And I still haven’t properly said hello to someone I knew at the College almost two decades ago when I did student jobs here. Last year I introduced myself to her and she was more confused than anything else; this year I didn’t have the heart to walk up to her and say hello.
Next year!
mmm that reminds me that when the took the official class photograph when we gradutated i missed it and when I asked for a copy I was not given it why because I was not there in the Pic