- Finished my last trainee period and did pretty well
- My thesis work is moving forward at a decent pace
- I'm only a bit behind on schoolwork
- My summer job is going to take almost all of the 2,5 months I technically have off from school
- Said summer job is also going to pay a decent wage so I can save up some money and replace my phone, though, so there's that
I've been pretty much drowned in schoolwork, really. I have over 30 book loans just from the campus libraries of my school, plus others from various city libraries. Sigh. But I've also been moderately productive so that's great.
I finished reading It's Kind of a Funny Story. It wasn't really up my alley I guess? Some of my friends were praising it but it left kind of a bad taste in my mouth. I don't really even know why. Some of the characterisations and the protagonist's narrative just irritated me too much to enjoy it a lot, I guess.
I bought Majora's Mask 3D which is great, because it has those "older LoZ games"-esque qualities of actually having some interesting puzzles and other things that are very satisfying to figure out as you play. I haven't played through it yet, because first I started trying to catch up in Animal Crossing: New Leaf (which I hadn't played since mid-November and I wanted to not lose all my fancy hybrid flowers. Hashtag priorities.) and went on a sort of Fantasy Life binge in between all of that as well.
Moviewise: Cinderella was super clichéd (I don't know why anyone would expect otherwise to be honest) but really cute. Richard Madden was a prince to die for. Also I enjoyed Into the Woods immensely.
Then. THEN.
AVENGERS - AGE OF ULTRON FINALLY CAME OUT! This has been expected for 3+ years. So awesome. I've seen it 4 times in the cinema so far. I really enjoyed it - although there were some less-than-awesome aspects that I do recognize. The Maximoff twins were amazing, too. Sigh. The Vision is basically my life now. I cosplayed Wanda to the premiere (we went with a Marvel cosplay group) and essentially I channeled the heck out of her by having all of the feels. I've never considered myself much of a Paul Bettany stan but damn. Afterwards I realized that the same man has also played Silas in The Da Vinci Code, who was kind of a weird character to root for but still. And he played Dustfinger in the Inkheart film adaptation, which means that he literally is my ultimate literary mancrush. The whole Vision thing makes a lot more sense after that. Ha.
Here is a picture of our group on the night of the premiere:
The weekend of the AoU premiere was Popcult Helsinki. I really enjoyed the event! I went as Scarlett Witch / Wanda Maximoff on Saturday and used my Star Lord cosplay on Sunday. I took my portable speaker with me and blasted some tunes from Awesome Mix Vol. 1, naturally. We also had a sort of informal "Marvel photoshoot" in the park near the venue on Saturday, and a more planned photoshoot with my friend who was cosplaying Doctor Strange on Sunday. I don't have pictures from the Marvel shoot as of yet, but here's us on Sunday:
I kind of really like the pictures... I do wish the person who had those pictures from Saturday would upload them somewhere though. Oh well.
A Finnish youtuber called eerahwave also included me in her video collage of Sunday's cosplays! Being included basically made me irrationally happy, ha.
Right now I'm looking forward to finishing my remaining schoolwork, seeing Mad Max - Fury Road in theaters, and enjoying my almost 2 weeks off before I start working.
Bye!
