Can't touch me!

An exhausting day. That might actually be the understatement of the week. It got so bad towards the end of the day that the first thing I did when I got home was to mass e-mail everyone doing the Contemp. Ide & Mvt subject to beg for a tute swap so I won't have to have 6 hours of classes on Tuesdays.

Alright... moving on...

Contemp Ide & Mvt lecture was interesting. Our lecturer is quite different from most - she encourages active participation in lectures. So people yell out their thoughts and opinions across the hall. I hope to have the courage to yell something out before the semester is done... but...

Well, we'll see. We covered (painted, actually with a very broad brush) the four main ideologies we'll be focusing on - (Classic) liberalism, conservatism, socialism and communism.

Cinema Studies Screening. We watched Georges Méliès "Le Voyage dans la Lune", or "A Trip to the Moon" for you non-francophiles, widely said to be the first science fiction film. Bizarre, quaint and utterly charming, I thought I'll put it up for your viewing pleasure. It isn't too long, and it is really quite fascinating...

Enjoy.

Second part of film screening was devoted to Buster Keaton's "The General".

Shall not go into too much detail about the cinema studies lecture or Contemp Ide & Mvt tute.

Met up with L___ and B__ for a poster run for Soc Alt. I'm afraid, though I've made it clear that I don't wish to join Soc Alt, that L__ has also made it clear that ultimately he wants me to. We'll see how this develops over the course of time. It's not a matter of two wills with directly opposing goals being pitted against each other, although it may seem that way. I guess I'm just groping around, trying to find out where I stand and why things are the way they are. I don't know how helpful L___ will be, coming from such an unabashedly strong marxist perspective, but he's going way beyond what he has to to engage with my ideas. He says we'll go through pamphlets, talk about stuff, have coffees, discuss. "Ok," I say.

In the middle of our discussions, we suddenly started talking about movies. I supplied the reason for my sudden interest (I'ld say it began about June to July last year, *ahem*crushonvideostoreguy*ahem*) in less mainstream movies, and L___ threw back his head and laughed. I found this incredibly attractive, not in a romantic 'oh-gee-how-cute' way, but the warmth in his laughter and the sudden relaxed atmosphere that it brought to the conversation made everything a little brighter, and the coffee a little sweeter.

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