Look, this isn’t some sort of joke, is it?
My self-assigned day off of Racodac today was scuppered by a lecture on The History of Animation. But I shan’t complain, as the day has been full of smiles.
- First of all, I had another lie-in. Only an extra hour, mind, and that was to recover sleep lost through watching tele into the early hours.
- When I did leave for Racodac, the slow moving traffic allowed me to have a brief conversation with Atul K. from his car as he drove past.
- On my long walk to Racodac from the bus stop, I ran into the delightful Steph ¿ on her long walk back to the bus stop. And we had a wee chat - our first, I do believe, after months of polite smiles and “hello”s to & fro. And she surprisingly asked if I wanted to join her at an event over the weekend.
- The History of Animation lecture was more a screening of numerous animations through the ages than anything else. I did lose interest towards the end - perhaps because it was a Friday afternoon and we’d got through a lot of examples. But all in all it was great. There was one animation in particular that I really want to get a copy of. Only bugger is, the lecturer didn’t know what it was called.
- I’m going to see Through the Olive Trees at the National Film Theatre in a couple of weeks, and I’ve just found out that it’s going to be introduced by Laura Mulvey - a film theorist whom Mr C. taught us about in Film Studies at RWS.
- I’ve not long heard from Matt L. that the highly inappropriate text message that I sent him this morning was received during a training session… and with his phone set to loud, the trainer heard the message alert, read it, then made Matt read it out to everyone else. Excellent.