the sun that pins the branches to the sky

[freckles_and_doubt]

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.

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[bronchitikat.livejournal.com]

Not being in even the correct hemisphere, I didn't see it. Awaiting reports.

We had a change in Vice-Chancellor at the university we attended (so many years ago we'd rather not count). While the old one was never seen by students except at Graduations, the new one was down there in the car parks, at the main bus stop, helping students shift their luggage at the beginning of the year. Nice guy too.

Sounds like your Vice Chancellor could be a good guy.