It's a Wonderful Life

Date: 24 December 2008 21:19:43

For the last 3 years the Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) has done a thing at Christmas of having multiple showings of the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life" in the 2 weeks leading up to Christmas, finishing on Christmas Eve. Last year I went to get tickets but had left it till the last minute (now, what on earth was going on this time last year?!) and it was all sold out. This year I was a bit more organised, so HD and I went up to town today for the 1 o'clock showing.

I'd never seen the film before, and can't believe that I'd left it this long before seeing it. It was fantastic! They don't make them like that any more, that's for sure. I cried like a baby, especially at the end but also in the middle (even HD confessed to not being entirely unmoved), but wasn't embarrassed as I could hear sniffing all over the cinema so I know I wasn't the only one! It was a really lovely way to get into the Christmas mood.

Since being home I've marked a few essays, and am now probably about half way through. I'm so bored with them - only one or two As so far (usually I give quite a few), no Epic Fails and, disappointingly, only one comedy typo so far (which is a really common one - talking about Stalin liquidising the kulaks rather than liquidating them, someone does it every year). I have also noticed an interesting phenomenon - this is totally unscientifically-based, but over the 4 years that I've been doing this, it seems that essays written in Arial font are loads more likely to not be very good. I wonder why that is?

I think I've got time to mark a few more before we head out to midnight mass (at 11.30, go figure). So I shall sign off wishing you a very happy Christmas, and whether this is a difficult or joyful time for you that you know the peace of Christ this Christmas.