Long Summer Holiday: Day 1

[bugshaw]

I invigilated my last exam yesterday, and on passing through the Student Support Services office got handed my contract for next academic year. Signed, sealed, delivered (and saving the cost of a stamp) - I'm theirs. But until Sun 4 September, I'm all mine...

My mum came to visit yesterday afternoon. It is her 60th birthday in July, and she had asked for a digital camera; she came to pick it up from me and get a tutorial/practice in, and is utterly delighted! It takes me back to my first digital camera, and the dawning realisation that you can take loads of pictures and just keep the ones you like without having to wait for them to be developed. We went for a walk to the Botanic Gardens in Cambridge to play with cameras, but got there 30 minutes before closing. The lady on the gate let us in at concessionary rate, which was nice. Must go back one day when I have more time.

"I can't get a picture of the bumblebee on this foxglove, it keeps moving. Ah - I could take a video!"

I pity my stepfather. Last night he will have had to sit through the results of the camera trials, including a 25-second video of foxgloves, 20-seconds of which have a soundtrack of "I think it's still recording. Is it? How do you switch it off?". Look! With this cable I can attach it to the tv!

It's great, she'll love the camera and all the new things she can do. And I'm a little bit jealous, 'cos it's better than mine ...

Today I have taken hamster to vet, watered my baby spinaches which are growing from seed as we speak, and am off to the cinema to catch HHGTTG one more time (3rd) before it falls off the schedule. Next week (are you listening, major_clanger?) I'd like to see Sin City, Batman Begins, and possibly the League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse although it will probably squick me disturbingly.

Comments

Hitchhiker Film

[aeglefinus.livejournal.com]

Have you bothered to take 3D glasses for the Simon Jones bit yet?

Re: Hitchhiker Film

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I'm always bothered - I've just never remembered. I sit there, watching his head spinning in space in two dimensions, kicking myself. This time round I had a jolly good imagine of how it would look in 3D.

Re: Hitchhiker Film

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I have a new userpic...

[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

am off to the cinema to catch HHGTTG one more time (3rd) before it falls off the schedule

It's already vanished from our local cinemas' schedules. I think it managed about a week or two before being cut to one children's matinee a week, so we never got to see it at all. Still, it will presumably turn up on TV at some point....

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Shame - the colours are great, I especially enjoy watching the beautiful dolphin sequences on the big screen.

[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

As I recall, the film didn't get very good reviews, which presumably kept audience figures low. And our two local multiplexes are entirely driven by audience figures -- some films they've screened have barely lasted a week before being pulled altogether!

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

OW!

Sorry, I think a large hint landed on my foot there :-)

MC

[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

Apocalypse is scary-weird. I don't think it'll be a big success, but some people will like it a lot.