Today was the first day of the Full Frame documentary festival in Durham and I saw my first movie in the late afternoon. I'll write about it in a separate article but it was a great start.

I've done something quite unusual: I took a day off. I had such a good time last year at the festival that I'll spend a good chunk of tomorrow watching documentaries. In the afternoon I have to go to Raleigh to pick up my packet for Saturday's. So far it looks like it going to rain on Saturday morning. Rain is fine, as long as the race doesn't get cancelled.

I must say that I'm disappointed with the selection for opening movie of Full Frame this year, and we decided not to go see it. The movie is called Trumbo; various people are reading from the correspondence of Mr. Trumbo, a writer who in the 1940's got blacklisted as a suspected Communist. I'm sure it is a good documentary but it seems overly self-focussed for a documentary festival to start with a movie about a screenwriter. I suppose I'm just disappointed that it's not as brilliant as a choice as Castells was last year

Saturday night we went out to a bar in Southpoint Mall. We had dinner and drinks in Champs, a sports bar, and there was a big basketball game going on between UNC (University of North Carolina) and the team of Louisville, Kentucky. It had been a long time since I had seen a basketball game, but it was a lot of fun. The bar was packed with UNC fans in blue T-shirts and caps.

Traditionally Duke and UNC are fierce competitors in basketball so Duke no making it through is sour for the Blue Devils.

Angelo and Chris had placed an outside bet on Louisville winning this game, in the hope of gaining lots of points in a work-pool, so there was a lot of excitement at the table when Louisville came really close to UNC. In the end UNC won quite convincingly and continues to the semi-finals this weekend, the Final Four. There are games on Saturday and Monday.