freshers week groan

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technically i'm old enough to have given birth to many of these folk. Not the blow up dolls per se.. they just have more personality than many.

Po faced I head to the post grad induction for the arts college (no more faculties and departments, all colleges and schools now.. weird). I meet charlotte who is in my course and encounter Harry who is from the states and 90 years ago. He was standing apart from everyone in a 30's style suit, tie, cap - the full great gatsby works. It was incredible and after a few introductory "ma'ams" I realised not an ironic look. Some people wandered off presuming he was mad, but I got chatting to him and he seemed very nice. Ended up taking him to the international ceilidh to drink irn bru and eat haggis. I fear for the culture shock when it comes.

Is it a bad habit, this talking to loners, waifs and strays? Often it works out well and I make good new friends and find them deeply interesting, but other times people can be just a bit nuts, or dull. In this case Harry from the Great Gatsby turned out to be very civil and nice, just experiencing a bit of culture shock from his small town in the states.