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Happy-Go-Lucky screening and Q&A with Mike Leigh
Happy-Go-Lucky (trailer here), the new film from Mr. British Indie Cinema, Mike Leigh, is simply fantastic: 30-year-old primary school teacher called Poppy Cross, who has a relentlessly positive outlook on life. Not in a scary or obnoxious way, but in more of an "I'm going to deliberately look for the silver lining, and figure out how to conjure one up if it's not there" sort of way. In the Q&A afterward, Leigh was delightfully crotchety and dismissive of David Edelstein's inane questions, but lovely and polite and generous in answering the audience's.

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3. LJ's auto-save feature
My iBook's battery is on the fritz and no longer holds a charge for longer 20 minutes, at which point it shuts itself down with no warning and I have to restart. This happened twice in the course of composing this entry. Happily, LJ's autosave feature enabled me to pick up more or less where I left off each time, instead of just giving up altogether.