Do any of you have experience with screening films on college campuses (in the US)?

If so, what does it cost for the rights to screen one film once? (I'm not going to screen new, large-release films, but if that's what you have experience with, that's fine: an upper-end figure for cost would actually help with the budget I'm writing.)

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Today is Mr Lapin's birthday. I've already rubbed the spices (salt, pepper, cinnamon, cumin, and chili) on a pork tenderloin to make 'Island Pork', a jerk-style brased-then-glazed recipe we'll probably cook on the grill rather than bake in the oven. We'll have steamed baby asparagus and couscous with that.

For dessert, we're having Deep Dark ( Read more... )

I'm snuggled up inside, listening to lute music stream from Magnatunes and reading my flist when I should be grading the papers that must be graded or finishing the exam that must be written. The season's first snow is coating the ground outside and my user info page is twinkling with wee snowflake cookies.

Thank you for those! <3 <3 <3

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Someone pointed me to the 'My Life Is Average' blog, to which members post small stories illustrating the average-ness of their daily life.

For instance, this evening someone writes (pardon the grammar, btw):

Today, me and my friend were talking about how we both took a bath last night. She told me she made a bubble beard and pretended to be Santa ( Read more... )

I love playing cards.

I just spent £80 to buy a pack of cards designed for the Shelter charity in the UK. (Well, £70 for the cards, minus the VAT plus the international postage.) They are lovely, though (most of them) and designed by a host of artists, and I just felt the whim to buy them so I did. Nyah ( Read more... )

The end of The Demon's Lexicon rocks! Very satisfying.

Right. So I just took a 'What hymn are you?' quiz on facebook (because I couldn't resist seeing what the questions would be), and the result was 'You are as British as roast beef and yorkshire pudding.'

I'm not at all sure what this has to do with hymns, but I'm very much amused.

In the end, I got out this morning, bought some cool canvas material and made the laundry bag (since some of you suggested this was not a ridiculous idea for a graduation gift). I may tuck an iTunes gift certificate in the card. I was ready to go for the gift certificate for posters, but then I rationalized the trip to the fabric store (and came ( Read more... )