After a weekend burying my face in books and online journals I'm finding it difficult to write this blog so it may be a little short. For the past week I've been working on a thousand word review and a brief (2,500 words) essay about what makes a film great and what makes a 'favorite' film, and what matters more to the audience. Needless to say I will not bore any with my dissertation.
However, I will say that aside from the stress of school work this has been a pretty decent week. It started off a little poor but that was because Tori was gone from Monday to Wednesday on a team building field trip with her classmates. I was left to fend for myself in the harsh reality of Glasgow. This meant I had to eat out once or twice and find other food that just required heating up in the oven. Frightening I know.
But she got back Wednesday and said she had a great time so that was good to hear along with having her back. Thursday went well enough, I had peer review for my coursework and got some good feedback about my review style. Then we watched the film Body and Soul - released in 1947, a great boxing movie that Martin Scorsese used to model how he shot Raging Bull - and called it a day.
Friday was relatively lax until we got a surprise call from Blake who informed us that there was a small get together happening at a friend's place. So, Tori and I got dressed and headed out. When we got there we were immediately greeted with some delicious, smokey whiskey that for the life of me I cannot remember what it was called. Then the night proceeded into an evening of good conversation with many different people, some of which we were just meeting that night, followed by drinking games and pizza.
The next day left me with a bit of a headache but I got through it - for the most part. Tori and I spent the day together at the flat and decided to stay in for the evening. She made some delicious fried rice for dinner and though we probably could have had left overs I decided that one bowl wasn't enough for me.
Anyway, today was spent at the library for the last four hours working again. I knocked out 1,600 words (over two separate assignments) and have only a little remaining for class.
The weather has been consistently in the 50s during the day, though today we finally saw some great sunlight in the afternoon. At night it has tended to rain a little though not dropping in temperature too dramatically. This week all I need to do is hand in an assignment on Tuesday, get a haircut and prep for a job interview at a bookstore (wish me luck). The rest of tonight will be spent relaxing with my baber Tori.
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