{"id":584,"date":"2007-07-12T01:08:41","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T01:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=584"},"modified":"2007-07-12T01:08:41","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T01:08:41","slug":"nirvana-subjective-age-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=584","title":{"rendered":"Nirvana subjective age transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back on Monday, when I made my first appearance as a tutor\/teaching assistant in front of the class of 200-level students, I had to say a few words of introduction. J, beside me, had just said something short and sweet and splendid, and I had a half-second to wonder what I would say.
\nAs always, I just opened my mouth and talked without thinking it through. My brain tried to formulate a pithy comment revealing what exactly my role was, but it shifted direction when it realised I hadn’t the slightest idea. So instead it veered into a conversation I’d just had with J a few minutes before. I suspect this seemed like a good idea because it would build some common identity with the students – it would be a point of similarity. And so I said,
\n“…and this is kind of a homecoming for me, because I did this course myself in 1995…”
\nOnly after I’d shut my mouth again did I realise that I hadn’t built common cause – I’d marked myself out as very much the other. Because, much as it surprises me to think it, 1995 is a very long time ago. Some of the students in the room with me would have been 6 years old when I had taken this course. I had declared myself, as a point of particular interest, Old.
\nAs the class filled in a survey I applied the Nirvana subjective age transformation<\/em> in order to see myself through their eyes. Nirvana, you see, is my music year zero; it hit in that glorious time when you’re 16-17 and your musical tastes take proper shape, if they don’t calcify entirely.
\nThe Nirvana subjective age transformation<\/em> allows me to understand how old I seem to them, but transforming Nirvana into a band similarly distant from me. To them, Nirvana seems roughly as hip as a band from the early 80s would have seemed to me.
\nMy subjective equivalent: someone whose music year zero was Blondie.
\n(Not that I mind being older in the least – being 31 is pretty damn sweet, actually – its just helpful to remember how one comes across to the Yoof Of Today.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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