Snow, Movies (63 Up)

Last night when I stepped out of Little Women into the street, it had just begun to snow. I saw the first white dots on my gray sleeve and felt happy. It was hail, really, at first, but that turned to snow as the night went on, and around eleven I went out to have a tromp round the neighborhood. There are still a few houses dressed in colourful lights, and some small snowpersons had sprung up almost immediately.

Today I had thought of going up to the office, but it's still snowing heavily, and while the school is open, getting there and back would have been medium epic. I would have walked -- in even one day's worth of snow the buses here can end up hours behind -- which probably means at least an hour and a half each way. I'm already planning to walk to Good tonight for the first Follow-Through Session -- that's a kind of accountability group that follows on from the Creative Work program. So I just checked my work email and left it at that.

I had a bad night's sleep and so have not been nearly as effective today as I wanted to be, though I have done lots of household chores. I'm still not entirely well, which is frustrating.

Little Women was the second movie I saw this weekend; on Saturday I finally got to see 63 Up at the downtown rep cinema. I went with S. and R., who both knew the series at least a little.

I can't remember exactly how I started to watch the Up series -- I think I would have discovered it during the MA program, probably around 2010-11? Before 56 Up came out, but not that long before. I don't think I started at Seven Up! I was always more interested in the participants as adults. Maybe 28 Up? I binge-watched through to 49 Up, then watched 56 Up as soon as it came out (online in some fashion, though I forget how -- I feel like my memory of this should be sharper).

[ETA: For background, the Up series is a British longitudinal documentary filmed every seven years, interviewing the same participants since 1964. It began with Seven Up!, which was supposed to be a one-off examining the class system in Britain, and then someone -- the director Apted? -- had the idea of following up every seven years, and the rest is social history.]

I've taken different kinds of comfort from the series as I've watched it.

( General Spoilers for the Up Series )

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