#36

I feel super scatterbrained today, wow.

I started playing DmC Devil May Cry the day before yesterday, and I like it a lot! It's easier to play in longer chunks of time, because you need a while to get the hang of all the weapon keymapping and various combos, but it's not too much of a hassle when you have time to get used to it at the start of a session. I love the soundtrack as well, and the graphics are gorgeous. I chortled so much at the white wig cutscene though, I can't even deal. The only thing that bothers me a bit is the language that the characters use. I don't have any problems whatsoever with swearing, but it sounds a bit pretentious in most of the dialogue - it seems like the scriptwriters just basically added a bunch of swearwords every once in a while to make the game seem more edgy and vulgar. Eh.

I'm going to see the new X-Men tonight! I'm pretty excited, although I'll probably have to wikipedia a bit for the major plotpoints of the previous films in the franchise - I haven't seen a single X-Men film to date. Which is a bit weird, because the premise of superheroes and strange creatures saving words and having personal crises is obviously right up my alley, but somehow I've never felt like I would particularly want to watch them? Oh well. Maybe seeing this one will change my mind. I'm looking forward to Mystique a lot, she seems like such an awesome character. Also McAvoy and Fassbender have such epic bromance I want to see how their characters interact so hatefully towards each other on the screen, haha.

I've made some progress on my school assignments as well. It seems likely that I'll have to finish the trainee report tonight after getting home from the movies, because I'm going to be in Amsterdam for the last 3 days before the deadline. I just found out that our flight is in fact not departing at 8.30 in the morning, but arriving at that time - which means that I'll have to be ready to leave at about 5am... and I'm going to the Sonisphere patrol with Saapas. Not a lot of sleep for me, it seems. I think I'll go buy myself an energy drink for the morning, or something.

The most major problem I'm having with the report is structuring the information I already have most of in my head. There's basically so much that I really need to get the general structure of the text fixed in my head, so I can write efficiently and concisely without repeating too much and so on. I also need to find some sources I could use for the theoretical stuff I've mostly been whipping up out of thin air... damn. Well, I have the books ready and some of the structure thought out on paper, so I hope I'll be able to finish it tonight? Fingers crossed!

Anyway, I'll try to get some more writing done before I head to the movies.

Bye!