Absolutely nothing of note happened yesterday and Sunday - so I’ll give you a blow-by-blow account anyway. Heh. My mum came over on Sunday and we showed her how to use the security alarm for when she comes to look after our cats while we’re away, and we went into the city to try to find a camera for M and a video camera to take with us.

I was having a slight case of cold feet on Sunday night - I was sitting on the lounge watching TV, with Jack snuggled up next to me, and I started thinking about how much I was going to miss him and Frisky, and how much we were going to be doing while we were away, and how tired we were going to be. And I thought how much easier it would be to stay home.

I don’t actually not want to go - most of the time I’m really excited and I’ve been counting down the days for weeks (only 2 more working days to go until I’m on holiday!). But just thinking about stuff made me want to stay home. I think I’m over it at the moment though! Yippee holiday!

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I watched an interesting German movie on Sunday night called The Experiment. When I saw it in the TV guide I thought it was going to be a documentary but it was a movie. It was about a journalist who agrees to take part in a psychological experiment in a prison. Half of the participants are assigned to be prison guards, and the other half are prisoners, and the conductors of the experiment watch everything via camera, a la Big Brother, and just see how they behave in their roles.

The journalist, trying to get a good story for the paper he’s working for, provokes the guards, so it becomes a battle for control between the guards and prisoners, although the guards aren’t supposed to use violence in the experiment. Naturally, it wouldn’t be an interesting experiment (or movie) if everyone did what they were supposed to and then walked out the end with their payment, so the conductors tested the participants with stressful situations and naturally things went a bit pear-shaped. It was a good movie.

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Last night we went to buy a video camera. M got a really good deal thanks to his superior negotiating skills - he was quite pleased with himself.Now he just has to get a digital camera, which I’m probably going to pick up after work today. I don’t think my negotiating skills are as good as his, but I’ll try! I’ve always been too chicken to ask for discounts.