Cinematic brilliance- Great movies- Double Indemnity

I keep on forgetting to mention that I watched Double Indemnity and found it absolutely brilliant. I loved both the dialogue and the plot. I may not like crime drama, but I definitely love film noir. There's something about it that does it for me. I think it might be the narrative voice.

Last night, I watched "Strangers on a train" which is not included on Ebert's Great Movies list. However, I feel the need to mention it anyway, because I was captivated for the entire film. I LOVED how creepy it was, and how it kept on getting more and more sinister. The ending, which I will not spoil for anyone, was extremely breath-taking and had me on the edge of my seat. I'm somewhat saddened by the notion that I will eventually run out of Hitchcock movies to watch. He is definitely one of my favourite directors.

Agricultural life

On Thursday night, I had to go to a dinner celebrating Women in Agriculture. My boss thought it would be an excellent networking opportunity for me, and it was within walking distance so I trundled over there. It turns out that the event was hosted by an agricultural women's fraternity at the University of Alberta. The fraternity, which is known as Ceres, is a North American fraternity for women with agricultural backgrounds. Who knew? I'm surprised by the number of fraternities and sororities at the University of Alberta. I've never had a great deal of interaction with these types of organizations before and they're quite foreign to me.

The dinner was quite nice, and it was pleasant to be in a room full of young women involved in agriculture. I did make some contacts and got to spend time talking to a few people I'd already met.