Blockbuster was having a sale and clearing out a lot of their old DVDs. I bought 4, including The Piano. I'd kind of been holding out until I felt the impulse to buy the deluxe re-issue, which has a director's commentary, but I figured - hey - a movie I love for £2.50? Can't really beat that easily.
So I spent my Valentine's eve curled up on the ( Read more... )

 I saw The Reader this evening. It was good. I wasn't sure for the first half, but did like the second, where more complex issues were brought up, and Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet did some fine acting. The first half wasn't quite as sensual as I would have liked. They touched on it, but there wasn't the overwhelming sensuality that there was in ( Read more... )

 Tango lessons, as of the New Year, have been moved to Tuesdays at 9:30, instead of Mondays at 7:30. I went once at the new time, when I got back from the states, but unfortunately, part of downtown had a blackout, which, although interesting, meant that dancing was out of the question. Every week I mean to go with such gusto, but there are excuses ( Read more... )

 It snowed today. Well it started yesterday, and I'm pretty sure it drizzled snow through the night last night, and snowed for much of today. It was enough to stick, and cover things in an inch or two of snow - more than we've had in England since I've been here. The country was, not surprisingly, crippled - particularly London, as they had more ( Read more... )

 It is good to be back in the UK. But I have already fallen into old habits, of not doing work. I have a deadline in less than a week, and very little to show for it. I intend to work tomorrow.

Here, among familiar things and people - my stuff and my friends, I feel more able to step back from myself, see myself, and work on myself (or at least aim ( Read more... )

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Rom-Coms are bad for you. I've had this feeling for a while. I've been steering clear of them because they make me feel sorry for myself for not having a significant other, but will occasionally indulge myself. I made up my mind after watching 27 Dresses that I was going to avoid ( Read more... )

Of late, I have been experiencing a mixture of moments of being utterly present, and completely not.
I am very excited to be going home, to my family. My imminent departure spurs me on to abnormally high levels of activity; this fact struck me the other day - I need to find ways to recreate that sense of deadline and of action in my everyday life. ( Read more... )

It's an odd time of year. I do love winter so, but it's quite busy. I've a deadline (and need to work on that!), I leave the country in less than two weeks, and need to get sorted before then. There are Christmas parties to go to, holiday cookies to make, presents to see to, and things to arrange (like my research trip! ah ( Read more... )

My computer has died. There's apparently something wrong with the Motherboard, and there's no fixing that ( Read more... )

I intend to write to date, contrary to some of your advice, to tell him once again that I'm not interested. Thing is, I don't really want to see him again. I met housemate's recent online find - she really likes him, and I did too (for her, and as a friend - I don't want to nab him from her, but would consider him if he was going spare...). He had ( Read more... )