Tuesday 26th October

In the spirit of making things up with K after being a bit rubbish on Sunday, I offer to take her out to the cinema this evening. I also cook a delicious chilli to eat quickly before we go out (I can totally do sucking up when I have to) and we head up to the Cineworld in Shopping City at around 8, to see The Social Network.

I've heard nothing but good things about the film so far, which tells the story of how Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook - which is not something I had expected when I heard last year that there was to be a 'Facebook movie'. As it happens, the movie is one of the best dramatic films I've seen in a long time.

David Fincher's typically accomplished direction, Trent Reznor's atmospheric score and Aaron Sorkin's funny, clever dialogue make for a film that oozes class and confidence - and adds genuine excitement to a film that is basically just about guys sitting in front of computers. There's a lot of angry laptop lid slamming and a great deal of insight into the bizarre social and intellectual hierarchy at Harvard. Justin Timberlake is great as the Napster founder and one-time Facebook executive Sean Parker, and Jesse Eisenberg's performance as the odd, reclusive and not-particularly-likeable Zuckerberg is bang on.

The film leaves me feeling at once inspired - to create, to use my talents and to embrace the new - and sickened; mostly at the fact that Zuckerberg (now worth $25 billion) is only six months older than me. It's crazy to think that he came up with Facebook in his first year at uni in 2003; at exactly the same time I was in my first year at uni. I also joined Facebook in (I think) 2005, when you still had to be a student to sign up. It's a film for our times (and it could have been so awful) and it's a triumph of dramatic filmmaking.