New Term! :: 25/01/10 ~18:30 :: Comments: 0
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I shall begin this with a single word review of Motion City Soundtrack's latest album, My Dinosaur Life:
Mediocre.
Started back at uni today, for what is looking set to be a thrilling term. Actually I'm probably prejudging this a bit. I've got classes from 2 lecturers who I've never had before: one is a continuation of Research Methods, which last year was just a statistics class, but this semester looks like it might actually be useful. The second is a class called Information Policy & Law, taught by a very angry man, but he at least gives the impression that he knows what he's talking about. Although I now have two 3,000 word essays due in for mid March, which I am intent to actually get through for once with minimal procrastination. One of them I can't really do much about until I get my dissertation topic though, which will hopefully be this week, or next week at the latest. I do have a couple of classes this semester which I'm told are a bit rubbish, but I'll see what happens. But it does look possible, perhaps even likely, that I'm actually only in uni 3 days a week, with tuesdays and fridays off. So, can't complain. Being a student, good times.
In other news, following on from my visit to Woodilee Mental Asylum, I'm planning a trip to the nearby Broomhill Hospital to have a wander through there. Tentative date for that is next Tuesday, but it's dependent on how uni stuff goes over the next week. I certainly want to go sometime quite soon, before the coursework really starts to pile up. I could hold off til summer (or at least til better weather), but I fancy being impulsive. Or as impulsive as this can be, given that I'm planning it. So I'm not being impulsive at all, I'm being impatient. Same thing!
Sarah mentioned today that she's noticed a couple of other places between Glasgow and Edinburgh that could be worth having a look at.
I can see myself getting really quite into this kind of thing. I'm a bit wary about some of it though; Woodilee was different, part of because of what it was, the ruins themselves, there was something just very attractive about the whole place, and the atmosphere of the place. Broomhill doesn't have the same qualities, not least because it's not really a ruin, it's just a derelict building; the hospital was abandoned and put out of use, rather than being knocked down. I don't actually know why either, but most likely guess from recent years would be lack of funding. Broomhill hospital has a certain appeal though, being a hospital it ought to have something of a decent atmosphere about it, and if it's in a similar backdrop to Woodilee then it should still be impressive. One of the things that I don't think I really picked up on that made Woodilee quite so cool has to be how totally isolated it is. Yeah, it's only a 5 minute or so walk from a road, it's barely a mile from Lenzie's train station, it's hardly miles out of the way. But it is still very, very isolated, it's surrounded by trees so you can't see pretty much anything else from the site except for the occasional passing train in the distance. That and it was so still and serene; there was not a noise except the multitude of birds. Til that fucking ice cream van, anyway. Broomhill hospital might be quite similar, but like I say, it's simply an abandoned building. I can't help feeling that one abandoned place must be much like all the rest; sadly I doubt I'll come across many, if any, other places with quite the same appeal as Woodilee. I'll definitely go back there though.
It's certainly a cheaper hobby than buying shoes.
Lostprophets - If It Wasn't For Hate We'd Be Dead By Now
Name:
Greg
Comment:
Re: Motion City Soundtrack; let's not forget that after one listen, you said
the new Katatonia album was very average when in reality it was utterly superb.
Re: abandoned hospitals; make sure you don't use the cafeteria.