I borrowed the DVD from the Law Library. Just finish watching, 435mins long,

good novel, good movie(or TV).

 

15 Episodes, Oct to Dec 2005, BBC One

An all-star cast, including Gillian Anderson, Denis Lawson, Charles Dance and Johnny Vegas, unite in the BAFTA-award winning adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Bleak House.

 

23rd April

 

10:00PM-12:00PM

 

Bleak House I

 

和 傲慢与偏见， 简.爱 一样，都有一位非常有智慧的女性，感觉太完美。这已经是我看到的第三部此类的电影，英式英语，感觉完全不一样，非常好看，我怀疑是不是PBS每周一晚上都是此类的电影？

 

Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly parts between March 1852 and September 1853. It is widely held to be one of Dickens' finest and most complete novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. Dickens tells all of these, with masterful deftness, both through the narrative of the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and as an omniscient narrator. Memorable characters include the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn, the friendly but depressive John Jarndyce and the childish Harold Skimpole. The plot concerns a long-running legal dispute (Jarndyce and Jarndyce) which has far-reaching consequences for all involved. Dickens' assault on the flaws of the British judiciary system is based in part on his own experiences as a law clerk. His harsh characterization of the slow, arcane Chancery law process gave voice to widespread frustration with the system, and is often thought of as helping to set the stage for its eventual reform in the 1870s. In fact, Dickens was writing just as Chancery was reforming itself, with the Six Clerks and Masters mentioned in Chapter One being abolished in 1842 and 1852 respectively: the need for further reform was being widely debated. This raises the interesting point as to when Bleak House is actually set. Technically it must be before 1842: at least some of his readers at the time would have been aware of this, but does this fit with other themes in the book?

 

热

据说今天是Farmers' market第一天，于是上午冲过去，半路就遇到Li & Fan往回奔，原来今天没有蔬菜，失望。。。

惯例，下午一点Eagle Heights外Bay fields中踢球，奇怪，这么好的天竟然没几个人，于是只能找一帮美国人搞，过程免了，反正结果就是脚背被一美国老踢肿了。早点回家，刚到家就见室友嚷着出去爬山，看看体力还行，于是洗了个脸（没时间洗澡，汗）换了衣服就出门了。

鉴于上周的情况我以为只有3个人，谁知道有7个人。。。不知道的只有2个，一个是知其人，而且还在羽毛球馆见过，当时还想这个人看上去像高中生，其实人家都快准备毕业了。还有一个是老乡的同学，但是这个老乡也不是很熟，算了。在学校的时候还是认识的人太少了，除了同学，学生，也就最后一年打乒乓球认识了一些人

Devil's lake, I'm here again.

一个小山坡没什么挑战，呼啦几下就完了，重要的是回来之后去China Palace腐败，呵呵

现在脚背开始痛了。。

 

 

 

其实今天体力很差，主要是连续打了2天羽毛球，体力消耗挺大，而且两条腿都很酸胀，可是奈不住好天气，再加上好几个月都没有踢球了。于是一帮人杀到Bay field.今天我拼抢比较凶猛：）呵呵，也是受伤无数，从头到脚。。。先是一开始无球情况下被撞到脸，现在吃东西都不行了，晚上还有饭局呢（西北的同学），看来今晚要ws了。。。然后是小腿被踢，肿了，再后来是脚趾也被踢，也肿了，现在走路都成问题了。。。看来要修养几天了。

还有就是今天发现一块踢了无数次球的某个人竟然是Deng Geng, math-cs，呵呵，我一般是不记别人名字的。。。

唉，休息下，腿太酸了，看来会长粗的

 

周六早上天气还不错，于是和SSun去Walmart买自行车，室友把我们送过去。车还是很满意的，问题是买了车一出门就下雨，郁闷啊郁闷。等雨小了就出发，骑一会停一会。开始ssun还能跟上，过了一半就不行了。唉，体力太差，呵呵，走之前就提醒他吃点东西再去，答应倒是很干脆，但就是没吃，于是我老是停下来等他。其实运动的时候一定要做好准备，不能饿肚子，当然也不能吃的太多，要补充足够的能量。不能在疲劳的时候运动。特别是长跑,网球和游泳，很消耗体力。如果运动过渡可能会休克，大学的时候就有一个同学先是打篮球，然后又饿肚子跑去游泳，休克... SSun这小子就是，常跟我说的一句话就是：我××饿死了... 不管怎样，一个小时后总算回来了，直接到我家烤pizza&sausage吃，吃完了让同学直接接SSun去shopping。

 

周一天气还是不错的，于是决定去Olbrich Botanical Gardens.其实还是蛮远的，来回估计2个多小时，几乎把lake monona转了半圈。天气还好，要是能再高5度就perfect了。可惜很多植物才发芽，这边的春天实在是太慢了。反正就当是运动吧。估计后面没什么好天了。