On Friday I was working in a Northern university so I decided to make it worthwhile by going up a day early and spending half a day cycling in the countryside.

The cycling was great, but I'm paying for it now by having to stay at home to do my homework while Apoa suffers the same fate in the room next door.

One of my tasks is to write an exam paper. Part of the paper is textual analysis so I'm looking for interesting passages to use. While browsing around, I found these interesting pieces I won't be using:

(not online but) Tony Blair in February's Reader's Digest explaining why this war won't be about liberating the people of Iraq but instead about getting rid of Saddam's weapons of destruction. Glad he cleared that one up.

David Mamet on truth and the withholding of emotion in acting.

loads of stuff about censorship. This is especially relevant for me today as we followed Apoa's guitar exam yesterday with a trip to the West End to see Maid In Manhattan. It only scores 4.6 out of 10 on imdb but it's a good movie for our kind of family and had some nice relevant bits about coping with nerves (we all had to face this at exam time). It's a 12A which means we wouldn't have been able to take the kids a year ago.

Also on censorship, Welease Bwian is an interesting piece about the making and censoring of Monty Python's Life of Brian

Damn, Apoa's already finished the first part of her homework and is now enjoying the reward of 15 minutes on the trampoline. I'd better get back to work.

B-)