I have changed my mind. I had decided to kill off my blog but when it came to doing it – it made me too sad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The main reason is that were I to just stop posting but leave it up then it would look as if I had died unless I put up a last post explaining the rationale. If I went for that then it would quickly get dated, suspended in time in an unsettling way. There is no way I would remove the whole thing that\u2019s too cruel, after all I have put in quite a bit of effort over the years \u2013 so it stays while I think of a way of restoring my enthusiasm \u2013 maybe just pictures, podcasts or videos, maybe themed in someway \u2013 I really don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile I returned to campus today after 27 months. I tried to keep my mask on, but I kept slipping. My main discoveries were that the journey is long, that talking to people face to face is nice, that I have lost my academic ear (the presentations I attended were completely incomprehensible), that drama students at Hull are smart and engaged in interesting stuff, that I am old and talk too much of the old days, that I am lucky to have this job, that I am anxious that my energy levels will let me down in the autumn, that busking a presentation stops it being boring but means you don\u2019t get to say half the things you wanted to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am super knackered and super uninspired but never mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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