Almost the weekend

Its been the kind of week where I leave the house at 9 o'clock in the morning and come back at 10 o'clock at night to start my homework. I usually really don't like that, but lately its been ok since I've been busy for good reasons. Like this week is the Rosenfield Symposium on Russian Politics and Popular Culture. I had lunch with 17 Russian professors on Tuesday, which was intense. Every day there have been 2-3 talks.

For my Russian Film midsem we had to watch 10 silent pre- and post-revolutionary clips from films we'd never seen before and then determine which director it was. We'd studied Bauer, Protazanov, Kuleshev, Dziga Vertov, Trauberg & Kozintsev, Eisenstein, Dovzhenko, & Pudovkin. I thought I would be able to identify their styles pretty well. On the exam I wasn't totally sure with most of them, but I could come up with reasonable explanations and convince at least myself. After the class this guy and I talked with the teacher though, and I figured out that I'd answered basically every single one wrong. Ummm...oh well?

Its starting to get chilly, and people occasionally accuse me and Jaime of "dressing like snowmen." Clearly the question ought not be why we are dressed like snowmen, but why everyone else is wearing t shirts and sandals in 50 degree weather.


Here's a picture of our living room, from when Nora was visiting.