I tagged my friend, Jaci, on Facebook in the post I wrote yesterday. We reminisced about laughing at me setting my alarm to wake up to watch David Letterman in order to watch U2’s musical performances, arriving to work very early, and how she is reminded of me with James blunt. I DID listen to him a lot during our first years teaching.
We were hired in the same year. There were five hires in our, “Freshman class” as I call it. I was one of the last to leave and now none of us are teaching there anymore.
Sean left to get his haircut so I am by myself in my house and I added Back to Bedlam to my Apple Music playlists and proceeded to listen to the entire album. (I need to gather my thoughts and I hope to write about it in a little bit) but I heard this song and given how I handled listening to that James Blunt album, this song seemed fitting. I almost forgot about it: