Current mood:	sleepy
Current music:	The Streets

Forever Smitten
It’s that time of year again, Uni goes back, Tropfest denies me of any substantial sleep for the first day, and an unexplained urge to actually watch the Academy Awards continues that trend by making sure that I’m not fully rested and fit for the second.

Now Tropfest, I must say, was well worth the sacrifice. I’ve never actually been before, but given that it’s both free and the biggest film festival of its kind, when I noticed on Saturday that it had come around again I spontaneously decided to make the trek down the following day. Of course, by nature of it being such a last-minute decision it was hard to get people to come along, perhaps especially because Uni went back the following day, but I was going to be damned if I let it slip by, especially considering that the Sunday just past represents the last day of educational Summer Vacation I will likely ever have. It was just me and Chris in the end, which in some ways worked out well as we managed to find a reasonable place to sit only by virtue of there only being two of us. It must be said that the Nova girls who seemed to be hosting the events lead up were utter rubbish, and left the crowd about enthusiastic as a dead horses head by the time they got off. Thankfully, very thankfully even, the first real film of the night, actually the Tropfest trailer, gave a surge of enthusiasm to the mass of people making up the crowd as it successfully crammed more worthy humour into several minutes than the lead-up hosts had in the past few hours! From then on the atmosphere came alive, and I got to feel that my last night was well spent. Getting home around one in the morning and then setting my alarm forward hurt a bit, though.

Why I actually watch the Oscars is something I don’t really understand. Why I don’t instead get the results off the internet or the radio like most other people is beyond be. These bloody awards mark the one time of the year where I will actually watch TV for over three hours straight, and then I get the end of it, just sort of shrug, and go to bed a hour or more later than I’m trying to get myself to and continue to bugger up by sleep plan in the process. Hopefully by the end of the week I will have my body clock more or less sorted and will be close to something of a workable schedule. Watching though, I couldn’t help but feel less buzz than was around last year, l though I’m very happy that Million Dollar Baby won the big one, not because I’ve seen it yet, but because I know a couple of people who would have been pissed off by it and there are certain times where it can be fun to frolic in someone else’s misery, cold bastard that I am. Some of the awards were a bit depressing and really showed up the lack of Lord of the Rings, in things like design and costume, and particularly visual effects. Not to be unexpected, the animated feature bit felt pretty dry with absolutely no question that The Incredible was the only animated film to come out of an American studio to be even vaguely worthy this year. Hopefully Howl’s Moving Castle will be given a release next year so that there can be at least one worthy film again.

And then there was Uni, which has only just started. Only had my video class so far, and although it may be a little tricky, Dream should be easy enough to work into the outline that has been laid out. Today I start watching movies as a part of my study again.