A day without teaching, so I could catch up with my other duties. Sweet.

Got up kinda late, went in late and got started with the fixing up of various things. I'm putting together a nice little editing system with a nice old Quicksilver G4 which used to be the server into which I've installed an 80Gb and a 120Gb hard drive. Alls I need to do now is put Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger on it, and then the software Final Cut Pro 4, Motion, DVD Studio Pro etc. all of which comprises Final Cut Studio 4. I think I might get us a copy of Final Cut Pro 5 too because I see that unlike 4 it supports HDV, which may come in handy in the next little while.

This editing system can flit between home and work depending on the workload at school. I can cut my own stuff on it, who knows I might even be able to finally get a showreel together.

Had a meeting with the head of acting today, and I told him which actors I'd chosen for my film. He agreed that I had basically chosen really well and gotten all the best people from the year. Double sweet.

Bought some groceries on the way home and when I got back we had warm chicken salad and cups of lovely latte via the espresso machine. Mia suggested I get some Espresso coffee from Starbucks, and I said genius idea. Maybe I could get some hazelnut syrup too? I know some people are really anti-Starbucks, but I love em. I'm not really sure what the objection is, but frankly unless I have documentary evidence they eat babies I'm going to continue to buy and drink their coffee.