Another exciting installment.

Wild Strawberries.

On Monday we watched Wild Strawberries in Film Studies and today the lecturer devoted the class to an open discussion. It gradually became quite an intellectual and interesting discussion, and I decided to add something. Right at the punchline (I was literally at the point of saying “because….”), my mind completely deserted me. There was a pregnant silence in the auditorium for about ten seconds (not an exaggeration), as I tried to remember what I was talking about. Thankfully, I recovered from my dumbness and said what I wanted to say, before the lecturer had to move on and put it down to stupidity. So, could have been worse.

The film was great, by the way. This is my favourite scene from it:

Berlijn.

I’m going to Berlin on the first of February. I am completely ill-prepared – mentally and practically. But excited. This is not really a good time to ditch my studies, but i’ll only miss two days – the trip is four days. It should be a blast. And I should get some cool photographs.

Printing on Brown Envelopes.

I love the texture and colour of brown envelopes – and not for any psychological connections with money, I’m sure. I wanted to print my timetable on this paper (since I left my old one on the train and need to print a new one), but the paper needs to be A4 size or my printer rejects it. So I glued an unfolded (rather, ripped open) envelope to a sheet of a4 and it turned out great: