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Date: 19 March 2004 23:03:23
...I got up at 6:30 (am!) and set off to meet some fellow students at Queen St. station to get the train to Stirling to hear Jacques Derrida lecture. Got on the train at SECC to go to Queen St. and at the very next station, Anderston, loads of cops get on and start asking everyone for ID, what they're doing, where they're going, etc, etc. For 20 mins! So I missed my friends and the train to Stirling, strolled round town for half an hour, came home and typed up a 10min presentation. The presentation was entitled: 'John Cage: An Introduction. Or, a Beginners Guide to Aural Sex'. And I managed to get my favourite Monty Phython line in there too ("He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"). Must read slower in public! Someone else did a 10min thing on a book by Russell Hoban called 'Kleinzeit', which sounded hilarious. Then in the evening watched 'Frida', the film of the life of Frida Kahlo at the home of one of the lecturers in the department (cheers for the beer and comfy sofa Yvonne!).
Spent most of today reading 'Hey Nostradamus' by Douglas Coupland, will finish it in the morning and report back.
21 Grams is a really good film, very worth seeing. The post-film hot chocolate and chat with Elise about our plans for the book group, holidays in Vietnam, predestination, person-centred theory/therapy, plans for writing novels, boring lectures, the tray balancing skills of waitresses, etc, etc, was very much appreciated too, as was the lift home.
Tomorrow is a day off. I need one. Don't wake me too early.