I Am Legend

I saw "I Am Legend" over the weekend. I'd heard that the reviews weren't stellar, but I wanted to see it anyways. I thought it was a great movie. The story development is well done, special effects were excellent, and the story moved along. There was never a point when I was sitting wondering when they were going to get on with things, it kept up at a good pace and the director made excellent use of sounds, and camera angles to keep the tension high, without resorting to constant jump scenes. While there were some things to complain about, they were minimal compared to most thriller movies. The plot mostly made sense, which does a lot in terms of keeping me in the story. I won't go into too much detail so that I don't ruin it for people, but I enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone looking for a good thriller. There's very little gore, and not much in the way of foul language either (that I remember), nor is there any completely irrelevant love interest story that randomly develops, "necessitating" a gratuitous sex scene as is often the case with such movies. It is simply a good, thrilling, scary movie.

It's an Integer Life

First off, apologies for the terrible abuse of a classic movie title.

Now then, hm, what a funny phrase: "Now then". Is it supposed to make sense? Anyways, ignoring that and moving on: my life has been integer based for the last week or so. What do I mean by this? My car has a digital odometer and trip counter. Everywhere that I've driven in the last month has caused the trip meter to end in X.0, on an exact mile distance. And I mean everywhere. To school is exactly 2.0 miles, to Alishka's is exactly 1.0 mile, to my sister's house is exactly 3.0 miles. It's really quite strange, and I've never noticed before. It's just a little oddity of life that I picked up on, and I hope everyone else enjoys the peculiarity of it.

Apologies....

Sorry I haven't written in forever. Life has gotten busy. I really don't have time to be writing now, but I am....

I'm only in two classes this semester, two 600 level classes... I have a busier last two weeks of classes than I ever had in my entire undergraduate career. Hopefully things will be better next semester when I'll only be taking two 400 level classes.

I'll be finishing up papers and projects this week, then taking two finals, and in 9 days I leave for Connecticut.

Oh, and if anyone would like to buy me a Wii, I'd really appreciate it... or come up with present ideas for the many members of my family that I need presents for, that'd be acceptable as well.