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2004年11月1日 上午5點56分00秒[IMAGE] Currently Watching The Young Girls...
 | Currently Watching The Young Girls of Rochefort see related |
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Overcome by grievance and finally fell asleep after a fit of violent tears. Woke up this morning and went to the guest seminar at CELL in a sullen appearance and mood. The guest speaker was a Karen Hearn from Tate Britain. She was giving a talk on Pregnancy portraits. Not particularly enlightening but was glad to see one of Vermeer's paintings. I think I really want to work on the Dutch artist in my term essay now.
When I was leaving I had a chance to talk to Dr Brotton - it had been 2 weeks since I last saw him. Still with that genuine kindness he inquired after me. I told him I had come up with an idea for the term essay, and he immediately said I can send an email and may be arrange a meeting with him too, but had to be within this week since he will be going to Tokyo in the Reading week (conference, I think). At the end he did not forget to say it was nice to see me - how kind! Before I was rather uncertain when the others matter-of-factly mentioned the teaching staffs in their first names; but now I think I would love to call Dr Brotton "Jerry" too
Went to Sainsbury and had an afternoon nap - 3 hours! I simply do not know what is wrong with me. After that break down last night I think I am relapsing into depression again - not yet. Yet if I do not have things like the presentation and term essay to occupy my mind, I certainly will.
To cheer myself up I watched Jacques Demy's "Les Demoiselles de Rochefort" again. I love the colours, I love the music, I love the whole mood of the film
Musicals indeed appeal most to my artistic sentiments 
I have always felt uneasy about those adolescents around the area - and indeed something happened this evening. The fireworks they had been incessantly playing (no idea why they never get bored with this) set some trash into flames
Firemen came and gave the guilty the water pole so that they could remedy their own troubles 
Possessed by a great desire to do well the presentation. So I will just stop here.