the sun that pins the branches to the sky

Partial solar eclipse yesterday, who saw it? I managed to view it completely accidentally, courtesy of my Cherished Institution's spanky new Vice Chancellor, whose hands-on management style has led him to (a) gently boot out the Deputy Vice Chancellors scheduled to welcome students in my orientation programmes in favour of welcoming them himself, and (b) spend ten minutes wandering around the Plaza amid dancing, shouting, singing freshers and OLs, lending out his smoked lenses and encouraging people to have a look. I find this curiously endearing.

Also, eclipses are strange, disturbing, rather wonderful things. There's a deep, atavistic part of human nature which knows that that simply shouldn't happen to the sun, and that it's therefore magical.