Fully recovered from the abcess now, only a little bump and a bit of soreness. Still feeling a bit weird but that'll happen I guess.

Bumped into Robin Lawrence, one of the actors at school who also is going to be in the movie. We went and had coffee and traded war stories about being old. He is 47 I'm 46 and we both date women who are 15 years our junior. Turns out we've both had experiences of talking to our partners about stuff which has happened in the past only to realise that it happened before they were born and they have no memory of it. Sigh. Happens with the students at school too. We laughed about it a lot then went to work.

Today's final story in the edits of the first year video project was a serious story about a couple who break up quite acrimoniously, but meet up on the internet and meet again and get to say sorry to each other.

It's a fine little story but the filming of it was quite gruelling. Really cold day and so many scenes outside we all froze to death. Plus I'm coming to the conclusion that students who have no idea what they want from a film, and not much interest in the process, are easier to teach how to make a film. This lot are very keen, highly technical, and totally committed to the story. Which means they raced ahead when we filmed, rolling tape and cutting too fast, moving on to the next setup without properly considering if they had enough coverage, and in the edit they were trying to do a fine cut as they went along doing the rough cut. It was torture. Fiddling with a single edit for ages when they should have been just lobbing clips into the timeline and worrying about the details later. Ah well, I guess they will learn eventually.

Last day over at Christchurch Studios for a while. Shame because it's like a little holiday working there. Much more easy environment. Looking forward to shooting the first bit of my film here.

Went shopping on the way home for groceries and spotted CDs by The LA's for £4.96 and Harry Connick Jr. for £1.94 in Tesco. Gotta have 'em. Threw in a Goth compilation for good measure. Oh yeah and it was a blizzard too. Really proper snow. Mia was unimpressed. Okay she had to say that was proper snow but she still says that was nothing... just a light sugar frosting compared to the old country. She's right.I've been in Helsinki in Winter and it's like a different planet. Minus 30 and dry. So cold your brain starts to ice up. And snow drifts up the side of buildings, not kerbs. So yeah no comparison, but still. I love it.

Got home and listened to my CDs while drinking hazelnut flavoured coffee. Mia had her friend Tonya over for the evening and they watched "Lost" on Divx while I wrote this blog and listened to my music. I'm real tired, though.

Fell asleep watching Family guy again. That show just gets better and better.