i wonder if the movie of robert bolt's a man for all seasons is in our library. i've seen bits of it when we studied it in school but it was a long time ago. i need a list of movies to watch after thesis week.

lots of whinging about my journal lately! su-lin bawled me out over her byatt documentary entry so i took that off, and poach promptly came on the same day and demanded to know why i'd removed entries secretly. and su-lin accuses that i have a most misguided notion of the words she would use in her essays, and poach tells me that i should be adding the su-lin words to her list instead. what a contentious lot of friends i have. bleah.

theses are such exciting things. i ran into liz simpson in the library, where she was on her way out to hand in her political and social thought thesis. i felt incredibly excited for her. it's impossible not to, when you're holding a lovely bound thesis in your hand. last year, when i ran into ashley crain and her thesis too, i was practically jumping. liz said she couldn't stop touching and flipping through hers all sunday night. (incidentally, she informed me that right after they bound her thesis, kinko's machine broke. hah!) and poach tells me she's looking up the theses of past english students on the duke library catalogue in order to see how hers will be listed in future. hehe. i can actually see why she'd do that. i would too. t--, po chin, i told her. you are so ego! this rather reminds me of cindy quek and what she wrote in the epitaph once: bao zhen hen ben dan / ta shi ge da fan/ tong! (that, i'll say, is positively the best use of enjambment i've ever seen in my life.)

i wonder if su-lin will squawk if i cite her alice essay in my thesis and list her in the biblio. (there sweetheart, ample warning)