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So I did the work and got the day off. Spent half of it asleep and eventually I staggered in to town to watch Superman Returns. I liked it. I liked it a lot. It's a tad long and there are a few scenes they could have cut or removed completely, but I doubt they could have done a better sequel if they'd tried. And I was surprised at just how much it was a sequel too.

I have another late night - this time it was arranged ages ago - to look forward to. I am going to be very very sleepy bunny tomorrow. But it gets me another day off at some point.

Wow. I feel so *poing* today. I dragged myself out to the cinema last night and as always it's put me in a really good mood. I saw The Lake House. Hmmm....Sandra Bullock. I quite liked it. It's about a woman who moves out of a lake house and leaves the next occupant a note to forward on her mail. Except somehow the house's mailbox is occupying two points in time - the present and two years in the past. And the previous occupant gets the note instead. They start writing to each other, fall in love and cause all kinds of temporal paradoxes.

I also saw Fearless. Kinda bit of a counterpoint to the previous one I guess :) It's a historical recount of a martial artist who took part in a fight that gave China hope and respect in itself when it was being overrun by foreign devils. The fight scenes were great - lots of bone crunching noises and scenes of people having bits of themselves broken quite visibly. A good example is where someone gets punched so hard that their shoulderblade is shattered o_O

The cinema was practically empty which I find surprising. It's got A/C. I'd have thought it'd be a good place to spend an evening. The two films had at most 10 people in each although amussingly the first was mostly women and the second men.

I got the same cute chatty girl serving me icecream as last time I went I think. I really should make some effort to remember their names so I can recognise them the next time(s).

One of the DVDs I got and watched at the weekend was Aeon Flux. It's actually quite good. Not the greatest film ever, but certainly not in the same league as Catwoman. Far from it. It's got a plot. With twists. And action. And scatily clad young ladies. It's even got the other agent with hands for feet too from the TV series.

That has to be one of the most random weekends I've ever had. Saturday - where on earth did that weather spring (teehee) out from? The scorching hot sunshine took me completely by surprise when I went for a bimble shopping. Meant the flat was too hot when I got home too, which I guess is probably good for my cactii though, but not for me.

And then Sunday the weather returned for normal - traditional British national holiday weather - and it was rainy. Which wouldn't have been so bad, if I didn't have an ardeous journey to play Awakening. Stupid rail replacement service. But...if I hadn't gotten back as late as I did, I'd have not randomly bumped in to gmplatypus. She's back a week early for a couple of nights cos there are some training courses she has to do in the area.

Figuring it'd be a bit sucky heading up to Brunel and spending the evening staring at 4 walls, I suggested she come over and watch a DVD. Which was an interesting situation - putting someone who has seen hardly any films in front of a DVD collection as large as mine and asking what she wanted to watch. Tried initially making a list of films, but it became apparent we'd end up with another shorter, but still really long list. So I randomly plucked something out of the air - The Terminator. Which went down well, although I've discovered she gets grossed out by cyborgs cutting themselves up.

Awakening was interesting. I was inserted into the intenstinal tract of a giant bug to help lay a bomb. It was all very Evolution meets Starship Troopers. Think the character is starting to gel in my head too. Now just need to hope the game gets sanctioned soon so I can go visit other games.

I think Coke have finally realised that we might actually enjoy the taste of different flavours of coke. I've just seen full fat coke with lime. Surprisingly not that different in taste to the diet incarnation unlike how things turned out with the lemon ones.

Watched Transporter 2 last night. Very silly film with lots of insane driving and even more insane leaping about with guns. And there's a crazy lady who likes running around in her skimpies shooting people with twin automatic pistol thingies. A bit like a slutty Lara Croft.

So far things have been pretty good since I last posted. I suspect things are unlikely to get worse in the short time whilst I write this entry though :)

I saw V for Vendetta last night which was a mighty film (OMG! That outfit! :D). And I had icecream too. I wonder why they don't sell rum'n'raisin icecream in stores? Today my latest order from Amazon arrived. I now have volume 6 of SG-1 to make up for the copy that had the wrong disc in it. And I got the Road of Kings book for Dark Ages too on a whim.

Tonight will no doubt be fun as it's pub night and I will see lots of shiny people I've not seen in the past couple of days. And since I'm not on call now I can drink too. w00t. Although not too much as there's plenty of drinking planned for the weekend too.

That was a pretty good weekend. Started off with booze, pizza and Kingdom of Heaven on Friday with the re-enactment lot. Saturday I wasted playing Fahrenheit which is an utterly mental game. The control system bugs me a tad, but in some ways it's a lot less taxing doing the action sequences than, say, the Silent Hill series.

( The control system in more detail )

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On Sunday I went to "fight club" and had a few bouts against gmplatypus, a few goes in the circle of treachery and then wussed out and watched. On the way back I bought Shadow of the Colossus too which occupied most of my afternoon. I don't think it's as immersive as Ico, but it's damn good fun trying to work out how to scrabble up the side of this mahoosive beastie so you can stick a sword in it's head.

I also watched Hercules in New York which is truely an awful film. So awful you have to watch it just to laugh at it. The fight scenes are a joke - especially the one where Arnie is fighting a (guy in a) bear (suit). And they've got most of the names wrong too. Most of the gods' names they used were the Roman versions despite them claiming to be greek.

Tonight should be interesting. It's the last elections for the year - GameSoc. It'll be interesting to see how it pans out and whether any of the renegade chess players show up and try to take over.

w00t! My 4 DVD cases have arrived. Seperately. Amazon seem to have an aversion to shipping things in one container these days. Now all I need is some free time to put all the discs in the cases.

Oh and they've shipped the new Mage: The Shiny books too! Uberw00t!

The weekend was on the whole very odd. As far as my brain was concerned it consisted of at least 2 Sundays. Friday I didn't do much except watch a lot of TV. I finally got to the watch the IT Crowd which I found to be amusing.

On Sunday (#1) I slobbed around the place and didn't really do much. I watched Monk which is always good fun. The evening was spent playing boardgames at Chez Plot.

On Sunday (#2) I staggered up the hill to fight club and swung a sword around a lot. Didn't feel I was as good as I could be. Staggered down the hill again afterwards and had a nap as I was very tired. I suspect this nap is the cause of why I had a really poor nights sleep - couldn't really get off. Once I eventually un-napped I spent it in front of the TV, although there wasn't really much on worth watching as I'd slept through it all. So I watched Mystery Men.

I was disturbed by a convo earlier. My female co-workers were discussing their most lusted after superheros. They tried engaging the male co-workers by trying to get our opinions on female superheros, but mostly we just watched them being uber geeky.

Tonight I have GameSoc to look forward to, although I'm expecting to get my ear chewed off for having to pull out of playing Diablo 2. I've no idea what level the rest of the party are, but I've not had time to even catch up to where they were when I finished the first session. But I think I'd rather play board/card games anyway.

Bah. Back at work after a lovely almost week off. Thankfully it being the run up to xmas it's lovely and quiet. If only cos most of the office is already away on their holidays. Saw Kong which was enormousmonkeytastic. Played and lost some boardgames. Saturday was Dark Ages. Finally got shot of the scourgely part of my current mission from the Prince - now to implement the second and final phase. Assuming I remember to do a downtime.

Looking forward to moot tonight.