Its been a very good day: I gave bill the relevent paperwork, and he’s on the way to becoming my new p.a. I was getting bored of buggering about with adds in papers, so I asked my friend and mature student to be my p.a. cool thin is, he lives in macc so he can help me in the holidays oo.

this week, I have watched tw rather grim films. this evening, i watched city of god a brazilian film about gang warfare in the poor areas of Rio de Jenero. It was rather violent, but told a good story: the type of film where one can really get a feel for the culture it portrays. however, on monday we saw Requiem for a dream which I did not enjoy watching at all. Although it is stylistically brilliant, and a masterclass in cuting which would make Eisestien proud, the story concerns four people torn apart by vrious addictions, the portrayal of which is so vivid that it is horrifying to watch. we see heroin being injected into a badly infected wound; we see a middle-aged lady becoming obsesses with the possibility of being on tv, subsequently becomming addicted to slimming pills, and eventually becoming so unstable that she is subjected, very graphically to ECT. We also see a young lady sustaining her drug habbit by resorting to prostetution and forced to do the most vulgar acts imaginable. No wonder this film has been banned: I am usuwally against censorship, but on Monday I left the lecture theatre feeling sick, and hoping never to see that film again. It should be watched by no-one.