Cold...

So anyway, we've had a family cold-a real belter of a cold-this past week. It seems to wax and wane, yesterday I felt slightly better, so did Bex, but today we're both back to square one (did we slide down that snake on square 99 in the night?), the throat pain is the worst: it actually woke me up last night, it was as if somebody was strangling me...perhaps Becky has had enough of me? I get really irritable when I'm ill, so I wouldn't be surprised. Also my two big exams are tomorrow, and the day after. I mean, what timing! The last thing you feel like doing when you've got a head-cold is cramming that poor head full of code, there doesn't seem to be any room for it, what with all the snot and whatnot ;-)

Seen a few good films these past few days, "Million dollar baby", probably the best film of the year so far, an amazing (anti?) boxing film, a superlative performance by all of the cast, especially Swank, who will probably get the best actress Oscar for it? Anyway Clint deserves the best director Oscar. And yet, even though it was good, it pales in comparison to a film we watched last night, "autumn sonata", another Ingmar Bergman masterpiece. The acting by Liv Ullmann, the scene where she's accusing her Mother (after her Mother has the nightmare and they talk in the kitchen) of not being any sort of Mother to her, that she has always been selfish, and wrapped up in herself-I can't do it justice, but it's some of the best acting I've ever seen. Absolutely breathtaking.