The English trailer has just been released – yet to find out when the actual UK release date is (US is Jan 2007), but it looks CLASS. Excellent British cast including Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, John Hannah, Iain Glen and Thomas Sangster.
Definitely something to see on the BIG screen!
This documentary looks interesting…
FREEDOM OF SPEECH …but only if it’s positive, eh?
See the trailer here. …tsk….idiots!
I’ve had a keen interest in assistive technology since I use to run the ISS Training Suite, so I thought this was interesting – BBC Website.
Also been impressed with virtual keyboards since I saw them on CSI:Miami earlier in the year!
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It’s over. 6 years of part-time study while working full-time and it’s over. Assuming I pass (2 diplomas, a PGCE and a BA Hons) – I guess that’s worth 6 years? I have a really weird feeling that I can’t describe, it’s like the end of an era, but it’s good. I can now understand why some students suffer through the transition from 3 years at University then have to go out and get a job. Weird. I couldn’t stop smiling all last night 😀
Anyway, thanks to everyone for their good wishes and for all those who came out to meet me after the exam to help me celebrate. I’m going to spend the rest of my weekend…chilling. 😉
It’s funny the things you think about when you’re off work and you have the time to think about them. How one decision can, quite conceivably, change your direction. Being on holiday and having time to gather your thoughts can be a good thing, but also a bad thing, I guess (yup, speaking from experience on that one, also).
I had an ‘ex’ stay with me for the weekend (he had a business meeting in Newcastle) two weeks ago and we ended up having some very serious conversations. Why is that men always reveal some ‘revelation’ when it’s too late? You sit there… listening… all the while wanting to scream “Why didn’t you bl**dy tell me this at the time?” In this particular case, had I known, it might not have changed anything but it would’ve been good to hear the truth. Saying that however, the background is that he did something unforgivable and the fact that I still can’t get past it makes me think I made the right decision to end it.
I’m not going to turn this into a rant about men; it’s pointless as well as boring for those not involved. Besides – the best time to have a rant about men is when you have a girlie night with lots of wine and a chick-flick on DVD! The guys in the chick-flicks are always perfect. Sigh, I don’t know, I just wonder why men can’t seem to communicate their feelings until it’s too late – far too late, in some cases.
Hmm…what’s my point? Do I have one? I guess so… I guess the moral of this blog is that some men just can’t communicate until it’s too late.
There’s got to be some perfect men out there – after all, I’ve seen them on TV so surely they do exist? 🙂
Four days till D-Day (exam) and I’m too wired to even think about sleeping. Just got in from a gig at Centurion, was meant to be ‘not drinking’ and keeping a clear head, but the call of the Kronenberg was just too much – well, it would’ve been impolite not to. 😉
The gig was good, excellent line-up – Simma; Casual Kai; Sundown; Jimmy Two Times; Steven & Michael Cochrane and a fantastic banjo player called Dan Walsh – he was just amazing! Good crowd too – most of them commiserating after this afternoon’s match – including Gav; I met him when I got in there.
Been doing a lot of thinking over the last few days, am excited about finishing my study as there are LOADS of things I need to do which I’ve been putting off until after this month.
“Are you going to get a life?”, I hear you cry!
Yes, that’s the plan! I have a list of things I promised myself that I would do with all of this TIME I’ll suddenly have – there’s a few things I need to do in the house (note to self – save more money!) like install a shower cubicle and get new blinds throughout the house (actually, I’m going to try to sort that this week); I promised Sundown I’d sort out a new website for them; I should return to my guitar lessons; am also considering taking up the violin – saw a cool purple electric one I quite fancy; promised various people they could come for dinner; I should have more time to exercise…and there are a fair few dvd box sets that are just crying out to be watched! 😀
There are some personal issues I need to sort out too, nothing major, just a couple of situations that I need to sort out in my head. Something happened a while ago that I should’ve dealt with at the time but I purposely put it to one side because I was too busy and dealing with it would’ve slowed me down. I guess now (as the situation hasn’t changed) it’s time to deal with it. The problem with putting something to one side is that it stays in limbo and you still end up having to face it.
While thinking about this, I’m listening to Mike Lindup again – the Changes album. It always makes me feel better no matter what my mood is. There’s a song called Fallen Angel which has the lyrics:
Angels cry as they fall
Please tell me why you don’t hear my call
Angels cry as they fall
Not a day goes by when I’m not thinking of you
….that’s kind of how I feel at the minute.
Sorry – didn’t mean to wax sentimental; sometimes songs can hit you in the head and other times they can smack you in the heart. This song is powerful enough to do both.
Anyway, not wanting to leave this on a low note – as I’m fine, in fact – I’m still quite wired. Therefore, I now feel the need to watch a vampire movie, Underworld Evolution me thinks! A hot chick ‘kicking ass’ (which is inspiring!) along with some sexy (male) vamps and lycanthropes! 😀
Nite all!
Trying out Inspiration v.8 – a mind mapping software in an (possibly vain) attempt to revise for my impending exam. I was impressed with the look of the templates and the way they were split into curriculum areas – see snapshot below…
…but I find them a little awkward to adapt – it seems to me to be easier to start from scratch.
It’s easy to automatically change a diagram into an outline, but it’s not as easy to reverse the process and change an outline into a diagram. Having said that however, I am pleasantly surprised at the amount of graphics and symbols available as I don’t remember the last software I used for this task (Mind Genius), last year, having this many images.
This doesn’t make me panic any less about the exam, but it’s proving to be quite useful when trying to put my thoughts in order. 🙂
After my jaunt (sorry, “work trip”) to Switzerland in July where, surprisingly, I remembered quite a lot of school-learned French, I decided it might be a good idea to try to develop what I can remember and learn conversational French. Therefore, I’ve signed up with the Centre for Lifelong Learning (based at Newcastle University, but now attached to Sunderland University) and I attended my first French class tonight.
It was really good, our teacher is ‘Jacques’, there was 20 of us (mostly students from Ncl Uni) and we learned how to introduce ourselves and others.
CPD? 😉
We’ll see how it goes…
Level 42 played at the Sage tonight, supported by Kenny Thomas – so I was in “Gillian Heaven!” 😉
Kenny was fantastic and I got to meet him signing CDs later. Level 42 were on about 1.5 hours and their songs ranged through the eighties, nineties and noughties from Kansas City Milkman (1985) up to the new album Retroglide – it was AMAZING!
The whole gig was incredible – I’ll have some sweet dreams with this under my pillow tonight!
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