PLUMS UNITE!

After a long absence from the blogging world I'm back and bigger than ever. Or at least I've picked up a stone (woot). After a faith testing ordeal like nothing before, I've come out the other side even stronger in my faith and ready for more (stay tuned for a blog saying I regret it).

It's that great feeling of coming out of something amazing and into something magnificent. Of giving something in sacrifice and then realising you were given something immeasurably priceless without even knowing it. Of biting into a Lindt chocolate bar and finding all manner of tasty crap inside...(excuse me for spacing out at that last one).

Well for anyone who cares it was the end of my exams for the first year of uni. It had its ups and serious downs, yet I'm surprised at the strength God has given me even when I haven't revised nearly as much as I needed to (I only really started revising public law the night before - no really).

One problem I've aways had with exams is how stupid it really is when it comes down to it. I don't even need to set foot in a law firm or chambers to know that it won't be like walking en mass into a cavernous sports hall, with only a pen (I suppose if they allowed anything there would be too many suicides - you gotta hand it to them for still trying to slit their wrists with their pens).

And now that's out of the way, I can look forward to friends and sunlight. I can focus on waterfights, setting up jazz society and getting on with writing my first feature-length script. Speaking of which, I've been revisiting all the old short films I've loved over the years. And quite possibly the greatest short film I've ever seen (yes, better than mine) is Midnight by Marc Price and Nowhere Fast Productions. I cannot recommend this film enough. The use of seclusion, claustrophobia and searing hot emotion is put into the most intimate and everyday settings. The outside world doesn't exist beyond the doors of the car or the blinds over the living room window. No knowledge of what is happening outside isn't helped by the news footage of reporters with nothing left to say on the situation they obviously don't want to admit to themselves. Upon returning to it i realised just how similar the themes could be to my own script that I have been writing. Only I have a slightly different focus, maximising on the reality of the world inside and the unseen world outside our self-imposed boundaries. Hopefully I won't be a plum and muck it up. It's difficult enough as it is.

And to top it all, another great Little Gamers cartoon. Check them out here they're cool.