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I cleaned. There was housework happening near me. It's okay though, I kept breathing deeply and didn't panic.

I think I may paint my kitchen next weekend. Annie's kitchen was all white and rustic and cottagey. Mine is grey and bleuch. I want a completely new one, fitted and all that jazz, but beyond my means at the moment.

I just watched RAGE - it was - engrossing. Really powerful. I started watching it with one eye tilted to my job (it's a story about a rapist undergoing a sex offender treatment programme whilst in custody - though obviously more comprehensively addressed than that) - it's strange. The therapy is a lifetime away from the programmes that are currently offerred - as far as I am aware, and with the caveat of course, that there's so much out there that I don't know about, but the programmes we offer at the moment are all based on Cognitive Behavioural approaches (Including the DV programme we run that is based on research from Duluth funnily enough!) - so the concepts embraced in this movie, with the full emotional aspect - the letting go, regression therapy (and all the laying on of hands) is so alien to my current professional hat. (Although more at home with the psychology I've studied and the counselling training I've done.)

After a bit though I stopped watching academically and just swam in the movie - DS was SO good. Contained, reticent, afraid, angry. The slow progress made (and this movie spread over many years) was great and realistic for a change - (as were the parole meetings where the offender has learnt the words, but not the meaning). It was intense and actually rather fab!

My new machine works - although I can't manage the connection to let me record from the video yet, which is annoying 'cos my old one worked perfectly - though maybe as this tape was nstc - I will have to persevere with that. - Oh and there is absolutely no truth in the supposition that maybe when my video ate the tape yesterday I wasn't actually plugged in and may have released the film perfectly naturally without me disecting it, had I realised this fact...