Personal Ramblings

This is pretty much a content-free post - I'm having one of those days where I feel vaguely lonely, and feel like talking to people, but don't really have anything to say. So I'm basically going to ramble on here, talking to myself.

Actually, I have a 75% finished post on some apps that I want to write, which I started days ago and probably should finish off before I do another post, but I'm too lazy (that one actually requires some thought).

Went to watch MI: 3 with Dave and some of his friends last night - it's a really cool movie :-) And of course, any movie with Tom Cruise in it is worth watching... it was a good evening, got home about 1:30, which combined with an evening out for dinner on Thursday night, left me really tired today. Plus, I'm not really used to this whole concept of getting up early and going to work every single day :-(

Went to movies last Friday with Dave as well - we watched Scary Movie 4, which was actually quite funny, although in that really stupid way that you've come to expect from Scary Movie. Then last Saturday (or was it Sunday? I lose track of the days) I went wandering around London - did a loop from Charing Cross to Trafalgar Square, the Horse Guards Parade Ground, St James Park, Buckingham Palace, up to Picadilly, down Regent Street, Oxford Street, then down Charing Cross road to Leicester Square and back down to Charing Cross. It was a long walk, but it helped me to finally get some kind of idea of how all the bits fit together! That's the problem with travelling by tube - you know how to get places, but you have no idea where those places are in relation to each other (well, that's one of the problems - the others are worth a rant all of their own).

I think I've mentioned before that I like the song 'Bad Day' by Daniel Powter - well, I just saw the music video and I love it even more! It's really cool, and I'd love to download it except that iTunes music store doesn't seem to have it :-( (but I found somewhere you can watch it online). And while I'm talking about things I like, here's another gratuitous plug for my favourite poem 'The Day The Saucers Landed' by Neil Gaiman. Really, go read it. It's awesome.

Rambling back to movies, I'm about to watch 'How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days', since it's on TV and it's too early to go to bed. I expect it to be one of those silly yet enjoyable movies, something like My Best Friend's Wedding, and Win a Date with Tad Hamilton, and all of those.

My cooking skills have really degraded since I moved to London - not only do I never cook anything beyond taking something out of the freezer and putting it the oven or microwave, I manage to mess up even that. I just totally ruined a frozen pizza, and the other day I managed to make inedible microwaved lasagne. What can I say, it's a gift.

Hmm... what else is there to say that I can say on a public blog? (This is actually one of those days that I think I should have an anonymous blog as well - one that can't be traced back to me. Sometimes there are just things that I want to talk about, get out of my system, but don't really want the people involved to know that they're the ones I'm talking about, or that I'm the one doing the talking!). I'm afraid I'm running out of things to say, though, which is a pity. It's silly, really, but while I'm typing a post I feel somehow connected to the rest of the world. Same as watching tv, sometimes - you feel more connected than if you're watching a dvd. It doesn't make sense, but it's true nonetheless.

Well, the movie's about to start, so I guess I should switch off my laptop and watch it.