Right, lots of things so a quick point by point run down I think.

– Friday was fucked up beyond all belief. Plans for the night were for myself and Nick to go to a birthday party in town. About 5:15 this all fell apart when something happened in work. The plans then changed to drinking heavily in the pub right across the road trying to a) figure out what in the hell just happened and b) support some friends. It was an entirely fucked up evening.

– Saturday was not so fucked up but still a little strange. I was heading into town to pick up some things and felt like a movie. So I gave Patrick a call and we met up. Freddy Vs.Jason was the night’s movie and it was fun. I laughed quite a bit and enjoyed it a lot. Good fun all round.

– Sunday was not fucked up at all. I had a quiet morning in bed and then feeling like something to do for the afternoon I read in the park for a while. Getting bored of this, I went to see Pirates of the Caribbean which was a whole load of fun and well worth seeing. Johnny Depp was excellent and stole every scene he was in. It had Zombie Pirate Monkeys! Great, great fun.

– I’ve always had a thing for The Titanic, I wrote what you Americans would call a paper on her for my final exams in school. It was one that you get to prepare before hand so I spent months studying her and reading about her. So when I got home last night and Titanic was halfway through on the beeb, I had to keep watching. It’s a movie that always gets to me. Watching the ship slowly sink and then break apart is harrowing. Seeing people slide along decks, fall into the water and be pushed into boats just gets to me. This happened, maybe not exactly as the movie depicts but too close for comfort. The band playing on deck as the ship sinks is something that has always stayed with me and gets me in the movie everytime. Now if only it had been done without the need for the love story, it would be a truly great movie.

– Teachers, I picked up the first season on DVD and spent the weekend watching it. It’s good fun and it’s funny and the sarcasm makes me laugh. Great cast, the third season is really missing the main cast members. I enjoyed the hell out of these over the weekend, it’s a shame there are only 8 episodes.

– Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia by Greg Rucka was excellent. I’ve liked the cover for a long time and Rucka is a damn fine writer. So when the softback came out I had to give it a try. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I’ve never read much on the character and this was another case of buy something for the creative team and with a bit of luck it’ll be good. With this team, how could it not be. I don’t know if this is enough to get me onto a singles run but it’s going to be thought about.

– The Lovely Bones is the book of choice at the moment. It’s a little haunting. I had to put it down after the first chapter. Almost finished it and enjoying it a lot. I had originally thought it wasn’t my kind of book but I’d try it anyway, but I’m not sure anymore. I think it is my kind of book and I’m just surprised so many other people in the ‘mainstream’ found it to be their kind of book.

– Last night I really missed the net. It was around 11pm and I was bored and more than anything I wanted to be able to come here and type. The lend of a laptop isn’t happening for various reasons and the budget isn’t going to stretch to a new computer anytime soon so that’s just the way it’s going to have to be I guess. I don’t have to be happy with it which is good, because I’m not. In fact I’m quite unhappy with it 🙁

– I’m annoyed with some people and more annoyed that I now think less of them. Some things are important, as much as you might talk about things, NDAs and confidentially and that are important and they need to be respected. You can make up all the reasons you want for not following them, but they are not good enough.

– Music at the moment is So Much for The City by The Thrills. An Irish band in the process of making it big. Heard good things about them and the album is selling well, so being slave to the fashions I picked it up. Good solid album. I can’t think what genre they fall under, acoustic rock maybe? Good stuff with the first song Santa Cruz being the best.

– Picking up a phone and talking to someone about anything use to be an option. It doesn’t work like that anymore and sometimes that’s a really bad thing.

– I watched Back to the Future a few days ago. It’s a great movie and it’s not dated at all. I was quite impressed by that. It’s a good movie, and one going on the list to buy.

– Last night I was so bored I started to watch Attack of the Clones, it’s not as bad as I remembered but some of the love scenes are really really shit. Left off the last hour as it was late and I was tired but that’s on the list to go ahead and watch tonight.

– Bad atmosphere here, really bad. It’s a shit morning and it doesn’t help that there are build issues meaning I don’t have a big chunk of work to just dive into. Fuck it all.