The Film Noir Experience

I supposed to be meeting Anne-Marie in 15 minutes.  We are going to be study buddies and hopefully encourage each other out of great periods of sloth into healthy periods of enquiry and endeavour.  Does that sound optimistic, because it is.  My phone is flashing incessantly at me and I need to brush my teeth.

John and I talked about going on holiday together.  We talked about visiting America.  There's one problem with that...plane tickets are so expensive and being an apprentice painter and decorator he's not rolling in the cash.  He seems to think he'll be able to save up enough money for a ticket, but the longer he has the better he'll be at it.  He got really quiet as we were talking about this.  Depending on how things go in the next three weeks I may not want to go until September.  But, I may have to go in July.  We'll see what happens.

In other news, I'm thinking of putting together a PhD proposal that looks at the formulaic language used to sell European citizenship to the British by the government and other interesting parties.  The project would take a look at multiple modes of media and compare the amount of formulaicity used and the type of language used in general.  I'll have to get more specific than that but I just thought of that last night while John and I were talking. 

Everything's up in the air right now...you can imagine how I feel about that.