College, photography, the holocaust and teenage mutant ninja turtles...

[annwfyn]

I've had a perfectly lovely 24 hours.

• I had a visit from astro_dust, we sat, gossiped and chattered about nonsense and it was fab.



• pierot had a fit of madness, and dragged myself, ksirafai and astro_dust to see the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film. And lo! In his madness, was genius! It was a truly fantastic film. It wasn't great art, but it was tight, kept momentum, was fantastically non-pretentious and had alarmingly more character depth and development than anything ever made by Frank Miller, and quite a bit more character depth and development than a number of other allegedly more serious film.
  
  I wanna be a turtle now!



• I had a huge pile of groceries delivered from tesco online, and I now have lots of glorious tasty food sitting in my kitchen. Including bread with the invisible crust, which I'm alarmingly impressed by.



• I had a really rather positive assessment/tutorial today at university. I mentioned that I was interested in photographic conservation, and was told that that was a feasible area of specialisation on the MA course. I then started chatting with Mark Sandy about my research project for my MA (which is the academic, non-object based, more issue based half of the course) and I said I was interested in maybe writing about the ethics of displaying photographs, specifically photographs of war - obviously these are intimate moments, which can show someone's moment of death. They can educate in a way that little else can, and yet they can become intrusive and unethical very easily. Mark Sandy was enthused and began chatting about me maybe working with the Imperial War Museum next year in their photographic archive, as Camberwell has a good relationship with them.



• I also got to spend an hour going through old MA projects, and found a really interesting thesis on DNA testing, with a full bibliography that I have now pillaged thoroughly for my PGDip science project. Go me!



• I finally got home, and realised that it's over. I've finished term two, I've not screwed it up horribly, and I've got four glorious weeks of holiday time. Well, four glorious weeks of holiday, writing about DNA testing, and volunteering at the Cumming Museum, but mostly four glorious weeks of holiday. And I'm pretty damn happy about that.



• I've finally got an idea for a mage character, which I will whitter about to anyone who wants to listen. Somehow, necromancy began to make sense to me last night. This makes me feel clever.

So. I'm in a good mood today. How about you?

Comments

[fried-chicken.livejournal.com]

With titles like that you should be writing headlines ; )

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

I nearly entitled this 'the holocaust and other happy things'. *grins* I was in quite a good mood at the possibility of the Imperial War Museum.

[fried-chicken.livejournal.com]

Completely understandable, I get the impression that could be an amazing placement.

[vireton.livejournal.com]

glad your doing well sorry i havent been about recently i have been so wraped up in bieng happy recently and planning a wedding for november and doing immigration paperwork takes alot of time..

whats the plans for the next zeit weekend?? saterday evening (6th) i will be busy my dad's coming over but i should be good saterday afternoon and sunday (7th) most of the day

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

I totally understand - weddings are hectic enough at the best of times, without adding in immigration paperwork.

There are Australians visiting next ZG weekend - J and I have Nic and Mandy from Oz staying with us. We'll still be doing stuff on Sunday tho, and it would be fab to see you. I've missed you at games! Lots and lots!

[vireton.livejournal.com]

i will be about for most of the next zeit weekend unfortinatuly i have done my foot in and cannot walk much (tis rather painfull) and i will be spending the weekend mostly bieng a lazy slob in bed or about the house

[nadriel.livejournal.com]

I think I'm in a good mood- I'm mostly in a bemused one...

[adze.livejournal.com]

Sounds like things are going really well there. But how does bread with an invisible crust work? I'm confused.

Anyway, my day is going well. Work is busy, but banterful, which helps, and although I'm tired from playing poker until the wee small hours, I'm coping. There have been random e-mail conversations, a couple of cunning and devious game related plans, and a text message telling me that someone has found my greatcoat, which is, well, great.

Tonight has some after work drinks, and tomorrow should be fun, and everything seems to be going well for now.

In short, I'm quite liking today so far.

Oh - did you get my mail last night, by the way?

[kittyboo-tastic.livejournal.com]

what about you?
after wasting a precious morning waiting for my ex-landlady to give me my deposit cheque back (which she addressed to Monkey, that cow!), i've been wondering for the past two hours if i'm heading to the library or not....
may need some time management extensive lessons

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

Oh, those days are really annoying! I hate it when that happens.

[satyrica.livejournal.com]

Is the Cumming Museum on Camberwell Rd*, near Elephant? I have vague memories of walking past it when I used to work down there . . .

[*or whatever it's called before it turns into Camberwell Rd]

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

Yes! That's the one!

[wildrogue.livejournal.com]

Very cheerful thank you.

It sounds like things are going well with your course at the moment, I'm really pleased for you.

[chopseuy.livejournal.com]

TMNT was awesome ^_^ So how are jooooo!!!

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

Tonight, I'm sleepy, my eyes hurt, and I'm slightly tipsy, but have more vodka mudshakes, and am as such happy.

Happy Easter, Kyne!

[chopseuy.livejournal.com]

happy Easter Young Ms Brewer ^_^

[cage-this.livejournal.com]

The subject of this post caught my eye immediately. Can I be your friend?

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

Of course. I'll probably take a little time to get to know you through your LJ before I friend you back, if that's OK. I'm a bit cautious about who I give access to my more private entries as some are rather personal, but you're totally welcome to read whatever is viewable up here!

[cage-this.livejournal.com]

No problem =] I understand about wanting to keep the personal stuff, personal, haha.