Today I got my freshly printed booklet with a selection of my pictures from Stockholm. I'm quite happy with it. Everyone has to see my pictures now. :-) Unfortunately, the quality is not the very best for the bunch of money I paid. There are white pixels at the margins of the pictures, and that's totally unprofessional. Arrgh. However, the booklet is good enough to show around and give others an impression of what I did and what it looked like in Stockholm and on my beloved Campus Solna.

Yesterday, Tony Blair announced his recession as prime minister of Great Britain. And yesterday, Tony Blair was elected, or better: appointed as prime minister. Virtually, for me - on the screen. :-) I went to the cinema to see "The Queen" (English with subtitles!) together with Sascha, and it was a great evening.

The story is well-known: Princess Diana died in a car accident on August 30th, 1997 in Paris. The Royal family didn't show any public reaction for about a week whereas the British public was shocked in deep grief and opposed the seemingly coldness of the Royal family. The film turns to a different point of view: Stephen Frears shows what was possibly going on behind the walls of Balmoral castle and Downing Street in these days. Helen Mirren as HRH The Queen is absolutely great - she really deserved the Academy Awards as Best Actress. A pity that she refused the Queen's dinner invitation.

The film gave me the creeps - in both positive and negative ways. It was interesting but spooky to remember what happened in summer 1997. On the other hand, it almost made me cry to see the Queen as an emotional human being. And Prince Philip with his ironic comments is simply funny. Great film - go and see it on the movie screen! (e.g. in Trier's movie theatre Broadway until May 23rd)