So, handed in my final project at 9am and spent the rest of the day in Middlesbrough with Scott and Gav arsing about. We ended up watching Vantage Point, which is basically all about the different points of view of a presidential assassination. The acting was generally awful and it was VERY dumb, but the presentation was interesting enough and the twists were ok. I generally have a dislike for Matthew Fox so was unsurprised to see his stupid face completely fail to impress me in this as he fails to impress me in Lost. Out of the other films I’ve seen over the recent months (Cloverfield, There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men) it was probably the most fun as we were the only ones in the cinema so were loudly mocking throughout. There Will be Blood is definitely still the best of those by MILES, though.
Film wise, it’s actually looking like it’ll be a very good summer. Iron Man, The Dark Knight, X-Files, Indiana Jones and no doubt others that I’ve forgotten about should make for one of my busiest movie summers, like, ever.
Does anyone else think that the Activia slogan “Activia. It’s actively good.” is just really, really rubbish? It sounds so ineffectual. Just see if *I* boost my natural defences with a product so half heartedly marketed.
I watched this episode of Golden Balls with Gav just the other day and it… was… AWESOME.
Fuck YouTube and the <embed> tag for breaking my precious XHTML validity, though.
So, I wanted to start a new Blog. I was bored of the old C64 style and I had a good think about what a redesign might look like so I could launch a nice new look that would nicely showcase some of my web design skills. I’ve decided, however, to be a massive prick and do this instead which some may say distinctly showcases my *lack* of web design skills, and I certainly wouldn’t correct you on that. I might add style as I go along and I find more time, but we’ll see how this works. It’s amused me sufficiently to stay for a while, anyway.
So, I’m hurtling towards the end of my degree, which is about as scary as you’d expect. In the next two days I have to write quite a sizeable chunk of my final report ready to be bound in Staples on Sunday and handed in before noon on Monday. After that I have one month to complete two regular assignments (one JSP/AJAX/MySQL website and one load of database bollocks which I’ve been hiding from all year) and revise for two exams. The hand in dates and exams all fall in the first week of May. Well done time-table people. I hate you.
Things all seem a bit blurry and scary at the moment as I’m predictably ill-prepared or this onslaught of work, but I reckon I’ll emerge unscathed. I’ll continue to look forward to early May when the world will be quite literally (no, really) be my oyster.
As you’ll know, any good but hectic work schedule has to have a set amount of distractions to help stop the Sanity Horse from bolting, and I’m currently becoming enthralled in The Wire season 1 after a few months dicking around watching an episode every couple of weeks, so that should do quite nicely. It’s got, like, a really good story, and shit. And swearing, so it’s automatically cool and I am cool for watching it.
In other work distraction news, the new Supergrass album is quite good. Certainly better than Road to Rouen but not as good as Life on Other Planets and all that preceded it. I am top of the Elite scoreboard on Audiosurf for all the new tracks, though, so that just compounds my previous coolness. I bet you’re so impressed right now.
Right. Sleep. Then work. See you later!