So Exeter finally sees fit to let me use iJournal to update this thing instead of having to go to the website. Woot! Now, if only they would let us have FTP access... *sigh*
Anyway. I was a good little student and went to my film screening this morning, but I think it caused a relapse. I spent most of the afternoon in bed, and didn't make it to the second screening. Ah, well; we watched Hook, and I watched Sky Captain, tonight, so that was fun. (Did you know Gwyneth Paltrow is in Hook? There was a collective "ahhhhh!" when she showed up briefly as Wendy, despite being WAY too old to play a thirteen-year-old kid. Eeek. I was halfway through SC at the time, so I had a brief moment of "what movie am I watching?")
Speaking of movies...the film this morning was Ball of Fire, a romantic comedy from the 40s that's sort of like that Meg Ryan movie from ten years ago, I.Q.,, only way less cute. (Going to Blockbuster to rent that one tomorrow, BTW. I watch way too many movies when I'm sick and should be working.) Anyway, this was a version that had been recorded off the television circa 1989, complete with commercials. And okay, I thought our commercials from that era were bizarre--these are way worse. There was one where the narrator said, "Look at those smug Belgies sitting on their clean carpet...now we British can have clean carpets too, with [whatever product it was]!" Bizarre, I tell you. There was a very surreal one for Cadbury's that I think was trying to make a reference to the Bermuda Triangle and failing; at any rate, it had horrible, horrible music.
I finally wrote up my Ireland thing tonight, which I'll be posting shortly. Woo-hoo!
Anyway. I was a good little student and went to my film screening this morning, but I think it caused a relapse. I spent most of the afternoon in bed, and didn't make it to the second screening. Ah, well; we watched Hook, and I watched Sky Captain, tonight, so that was fun. (Did you know Gwyneth Paltrow is in Hook? There was a collective "ahhhhh!" when she showed up briefly as Wendy, despite being WAY too old to play a thirteen-year-old kid. Eeek. I was halfway through SC at the time, so I had a brief moment of "what movie am I watching?")
Speaking of movies...the film this morning was Ball of Fire, a romantic comedy from the 40s that's sort of like that Meg Ryan movie from ten years ago, I.Q.,, only way less cute. (Going to Blockbuster to rent that one tomorrow, BTW. I watch way too many movies when I'm sick and should be working.) Anyway, this was a version that had been recorded off the television circa 1989, complete with commercials. And okay, I thought our commercials from that era were bizarre--these are way worse. There was one where the narrator said, "Look at those smug Belgies sitting on their clean carpet...now we British can have clean carpets too, with [whatever product it was]!" Bizarre, I tell you. There was a very surreal one for Cadbury's that I think was trying to make a reference to the Bermuda Triangle and failing; at any rate, it had horrible, horrible music.
I finally wrote up my Ireland thing tonight, which I'll be posting shortly. Woo-hoo!
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