Urgh. Late night. Mia started ploughing her way through the rest of the Star Wars movies and I finished and sent my proposal around 1am. Up at the crack of dawn to motor in to Bristol to attend this meeting...

Then as I arrived I thought, damn it, number one I'm way too busy for this, number two why lend my influence (such as it is) to a meeting which frankly the political nature of which gives me the heebie geebies and the outcome of which I have no control over. I opted out. Instead I got all the computers sorted out and ready for the new term, and ordered a bunch of new stuff which we're going to need. Hard drives for the broken G4s, some memory for my computer which is starting to barf under the load, a DVD recorder to prevent having any fights over the one we have, and an external DVD burner to add on to our ProTools machine which has a busted CD burner.

Then I had some time in the afternoon to prepare for my classes tomorrow. I'm teaching all four 1st year groups every afternoon this week, preparing them for this year's 1st year video project. As I've probably said before, it's a 5 minute dramatic video which they have to write and crew, and I'll be producing and directing. It's an exercise in learning the correct working procedures for making films, so planning, shooting, editing and mastering. What we end up making is in fact largely irrelevant, but I try and make it interesting anyway, because why the hell not? If I have any sub-agenda on this course it's to fire people up, give them a passion for filmmaking they didn't have before. I can easily do the stuff we're meant to cover. I can do the other stuff too.

Anyway enough about that. Mia's Finnish friend Tonya came round to see Mia and they spent the evening watching a Finnish language crazy travel show called Madventures. I have no clue what was said, but it looked like two crazy tattooed Finnish dudes daring each other to eat snake penis on desert islands, oh, and spitting a lot and yelling Finnish cusswords at the tops of their lungs. So my kind of show in other words.