One of my modules this semester is called ‘Representing the Eighteenth Century in Film’, and each week there are screenings of a different film which will then discuss in the following weeks seminar. We are encouraged to attend the screenings rather than just watch the films on our own, because we can share initial reactions and discuss the film as soon as we’ve seen it, leading to a more lively seminar the next week.

However, this week our tutor couldn’t make the screening, so she gave me the film to take to the screening on her behalf. This was to be the main event of my day.

After working from home this morning I managed to get into Sheffield just before twelve and set myself up in the library. It turned out that my new friend Charlotte was also in the library, so in our infinite wisdom we decided to go to Starbucks and get a coffee.

Feeling revived and inspired I headed back to the library to try and brainstorm an idea for a module I’m doing on the causes of the American Revolution. On the way I bumped it to a fellow classmate and we talked about having to get our essay titles approved by our tutor. He told me he had sent his in and got the simple reply ‘Fine’. So when I submitted my idea later this afternoon I expected a similar reply, but instead got ‘Sounds great. Do you want to get a coffee after the seminar next week to discuss this further?’. At the moment my idea isn’t much more than a sentence, but if I’m going to have to discuss it with my tutor (a world expert in the field) for the entire duration of a coffee I had better get some research done!

Before the film screening I met Kenton and Jane briefly in Bar1 to exchange books for next weeks seminars, but we also had a laugh. Remarkably it’s already like they never went away.

I got to the screening exactly on time. I wasn’t expecting our tutor to be there, but I wasn’t expecting for non of my class mates to be there either! That’s right, non of them turned up. So I sat in the History department, in front of a TV on my own and watch the entire of Dangerous Liasons. It was a good movie, but I’m definitely chalking that up as one of the most unique movie experiences of my life.

In other news, I’ve also been told that in addition to everything else I have to have a presentation complete with hand out ready for a tutorial I didn’t even know about on Monday, so this weekend should be fun…