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[commonpeople1]

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By this time tomorrow I'll be on holidays. I'll be sitting in the Olivier theatre, watching Once in a Lifetime for a second time (with some old friends from King's College Nutrition Department.) I'll be making plans for my mornings, my empty Winter days. Until then, it's a matter of looking productive and letting time go by.

Kevin has a workshift from hell today: he started at 11 AM and will only be back home around midnight. I promised him dinner leftovers and a massage. He is working on Christmas eve and New Year's Eve as well. The pub is charging 8 pounds for NYE, though there's nothing really special planned. Kevin told Natalia and I to find something else to do that night since he would be too busy working to join us. Still, I feel as if I have to be there, if only to share a pint with him on his 15 minute breaks. Also, if we get drunk, it's only a block away from our apartment.

We watched Downfall last night. The movie was impressive, though I wasn't convinced in the end that Hitler's secretary was unaware of the extermination of the Jews. She was his secretary, after all. I had always been under the impression that nobody really knew what happened to Hitler's body, but the film (which appears to be based on the accounts of various people surrounding him) makes it very clear how his final days were played out. I was convinced.

My stomach hurts like gut cancer right now. I might have to visit the nurse downstairs for some peptobysmal. I read A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens these past two days; it was the first time I read something of his till the end. There was a twinkle of a tear in my eyes when Scrooge awoke on Christmas day, reformed and ready to bring happiness to the people around him. I had to quickly bat it away in case someone else in the Tube noticed it.

Comments

[saint-narcissus.livejournal.com]

I too just recently saw "Downfall:. It is very well done. I also had the same question of "how could she have been unaware." I have a bit of a believe that all people are ignorant, those of us whom realize we are ignorant are just a tiny step above the others. On another note I just saw "The Christmas Carol' Performed here in San Francisco. It was a new production and quite dark and sinister. There were wee children crying and even screaming. My favorite was the ghost of Christmas Past. Especially before she appeared on stage. Scrooge is in bed, the ghost of Jacob Marley has just vanished. Suddenly you here a voice off stage, a voice like a 2 bit street corner prostitute, first sexy giggles, then "Mr Scrooge, Mr. Scrooge,,," then more giggles, all in the most affected, sexy prostitute voice! It was really good!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I think A Christmas Carol is also overdue a movie. I remember they did one in the 80s, with Bill Murray, but it was kinda crap. It's a great story and I'm sure it could be made into something interesting, depending on who is the director.