Window on the city

This is the view from a corner classroom in my place of work. It's a great space, not due to outstanding facilities or resources, but because of the views to two aspects. One goes west, but is proper urban scape, with the main characters a car-park, a cinema, a hotel, a train station. It's metropolitan Glasgow, a hint to wealth and development, regeneration and the service economy. It'll be a nice city when it's finished, as a smart fellow once opined.

This view takes us south, and your eyes take you from the academic background to the twenty-minute away hills beyond the suburbs. The spaceship lit up is a restaurant and apartment development which took its time transforming from the city's principal post office. It sits in George Square, all Christmas lights and bright as a button.

It's dark early these days - 4.30 can have the air of midnight. Outwith this kind of time, my approach when teaching in this room is roll the blinds up, no lights on (saving the planet, sure, but nothing like natural light four floors up). Such views (I'll post the urban one tomorrow, promise) are wonderful to have, and such different perspectives offer just that. In such a room and behind a desk, I'd be sitting beside the window, daydreaming and letting my mind wander and wonder. There are days when I'd rather look out onto Manhattan and on others, anywhere else at all. But there's nowhere right now I'd rather live and work. Unless you're offering.