March of the Penguins

[lesbiassparrow]

Saw March of the Penguins this afternoon; it was astonishingly beautiful to watch - and those penguins certainly live a rough life.  I was cold just watching them weather blizzards and 70 mile treks across the ice to reach the water.  The score was awful though: mad flutes every two seconds and it seemed like whoever had written it had never even seen the film as it often didn't match the scenes.  And the narration was also a bit twee. Still, I thought it was worth going to. It has penguins!  And baby penguins tottering across the ice.

Sigh. This is probably the last proper free time for a while - I've committed to doing a translation of a 16th century document (I really hope the Latin is intelligible and not filled with horrible non-classical language use).  Plus trying to keep up with other Latin for next year, prep the two extra evening courses I'm doing in the Autumn and brush up on French.  I suspect the current article will get shoved to one side for a bit (well, it's not like Homer is going anywhere, is he?).

The French is the big pain as I'm meeting up with someone Sunday week for a meeting at which I'm supposed to be able to talk about Indochine. I guess that means I'm going to have to sit down and watch the film and try and recall some conversational French. I can read it fine, it's just producing anything that is impossible these days.

Comments

[meret.livejournal.com]

Good luck with your work!