Monday, July 25, 2005
Second last day of school. Technically I'm supposed to be there, but I'd rather take half a day off and sit here instead. My computer is being a little bitch and keeps flashing a stupid "program is not responding" message, even though I'm not using that program. I should be studying. The plan was to get home and go through my book making notes, but.......well I guess I didn't stick to the plan. I did take some notes. I went to Starbucks and had one of those really, really yummy mint mocha chip thingies, and I took notes on Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (exciting subject, huh?), but then I went over to Chapters and started reading V For Vendetta simply because a movie was made based on it, and I want to read the comic before the movie comes out, so I have more to complain about when I watch it and see Natalie Portman's naked head (she shaved her head for her role, in case you didn't know yet). It's really good so far. About futuristic London that's controlled by this "leader" guy who is a facist, and starts off with this poor girl getting saved from these weird cops who almost kill her. And she gets saved by this guy wearing a cape and a clown mask, who is basically a terrorist going against the evil "leader" person. I can't really say much about it, since I only read up to the fifth chapter or something, but it parallels 1984 and everything, so you get the whole idea of this controlled society where everyone is perfect according to one guy and what not. They're kinda freaked out about releasing it and how they're gonna market it, because the clown guy (named V, and if you pay attention to what you're reading you get the reason why he's named V within the first 40 pages) basically blows a crapload of stuff up. Starting off with London's parliament building and also a train (apparently, I haven't gotten to that part yet). The book is great, and if the movie is made well, it'll be awesome too. Just like Sin City turned out to be amazing the same way as the books were (and they're making a sequel, and the dvd comes out....next week I think, yippee).Okay, I'm really going to study now, I have a 2-hour exam the day after tomorrow, and I'm wasting my time here. *shakes head*
Braided at 2:38 PM