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This afternoon diffrentcolours and I went on a walking tour of "Alan Turing's Manchester." I was glad we were able to; he had a migraine yesterday and wasn't at all sure he was sufficiently better up until the time when we had to leave the house.

The tour was mostly around the University of Manchester, where there was an open day today. So it was crowded (enough that I wore my mask even outside), and also I had to have the horrifying realization that, in my Gophers t-shirt (which just says "Minnesota" on it in big letters), I probably looked like the parent of a prospective international student.

(I thought this when I saw someone in what looked like a high-school sports-mascot sweatshirt, of the type both my parents wore from my high school...but then it turns out it was just a bit of Stranger Things merch I didn't recognize because I've never seen the show...despite myself having a different sweatshirt sorta because of it.)

I just finished my own degree at that university a year and a half ago (it was very weird to see some of those buildings again! I've barely been back since March 2020, I skipped my graduation when it was finally held a month or two ago), but I would have been twenty-two years old when current eighteen year olds were born.