Busy working again

More time at work today, wasn't a very busy day so there isn't much to say. Got a whole lotta homework to do tomorrow as well so that will be fun... It feels like I haven't had any 'me' time in ages, I just wanna watch a movie I think.

Where are you...?

Almost couldn't find my name badge this morning, there was a mad rush to get myself ready in general but I somehow still managed to arrive at work early. It was another one of those slow days luckily, not too many people so it was a change of pace from last week, that said we were getting prepared for the new cafe renovation for tomorrow. I will be one of the first peeps to try out the new cafe system as I'm also going in on Sunday, I'm hoping I won't feel as knackered then as I do now.

A Simple Pan

Standard Friday morning, single lesson and a the long trek back to my house. This time I was accompanied by Mark and Josh who dubbed the group 'The Three Musketeers,' however when it came to putting a high score into the trivia machine at Rio's it could only fit 'Muskatee...' About 2 minutes from the house we came across a recycling bin with a treasure that would couldn't believe to behold: a frying pan! Just lying there in a green box outside, we figured that no-one wanted it so we took it home, gave it a good wash and it's now ready to take down to Bournemouth; that was quite possibly the highlight of the day.

Well... almost. Me and Josh spent a good 2 hours on Timesplitters 2 having various, 'one-hit kills' showdowns, the best of which being the match where players could only use bricks or fists as their weapons; you have never seen such a tense game or heard such loud profanities/whooping being shouted.

Shortly after we watched A Simple Plan which didn't go down as well as I hoped because I quite like it but many were questioning the realistic quality of it, I thought it was believable enough though. Just went on an 8K run with Mark and Jamie and I am now ready for bed!    

Review is up!

In case you haven't checked it out, I have made a short review of Nosferatu you can watch below or on youtube. This will hopefully be the first of many old film reviews I plan to do to possibly get the newer crowds into giving some of the oldies a chance.

Bought a little indie platformer called 'Dustforce' yesterday, its a real ball-buster like Super Meat Boy but this one has more of an OCD element that also makes it much more geared towards a completionist; in other words this is Dan's dream game!

Nosferatu Review

Headhunters

Historian interpretations of Kennedy's Vietnam policies was the name of the game in the library this morning, 2 hours of solid note taking from books, this did mean however that I was super prepared for actually writing the coursework which has been going very well so far. I even tried to get Mark to secretly take out another library book for me as I thought I used up my quota, I drew him up a little floor plan and everything! Alas, it was in vain as they were only reference books, luckily Mark got most of the blame and I just need to lie low from that librarian who now has my name, most likely in her not-so-good books.

The annual school photos thing was this afternoon, being one of the taller ones meant I could stand at the back feeling pretty smug but it also meant that I was stood up for the longest which was a tad uncomfortable on the ol' legs. Because my Blackberry has been acting up regarding its set clock time I took it into the local phone shop to be examined, the chap was really nice but unfortunatly he couldn't quite solve the problem, so that called for a 'Theo bodge-job.' Essentially the phone was saying my messages were all arriving at the same time: 3:48am, 16th of August 2044, this was quite a big nuisance but I very cunningly got around it by setting the year to 2055 which has the same calendar days as this year; problem sorted!

Finally I went off to see a Norwegian thriller called Headhunters, which was pretty damn good. It started out a bit like American Psycho but developed quickly into a No Country for Old Men kinda thing, many scenes, especially during the middle sections of the film, were just pure adrenaline and more often than not, provided some imagery and set pieces you have never seen before. I won't spoil anything but one of the best scenes involves a dog, a tractor and an outhouse, just take my word for it.     

Get well soon Mum

Managed to knock off about 1/3rd of my coursework this afternoon, which was a pretty good effort for the 2 hours work I put into it. Mum spent most of today feeling very, very ill, to the extent where there had to be a washing up bowl placed lovingly next to her bed, then emptied, then put back in case it was needed again.