...or In Which Cocoa Attempts to Summarize a Week In One Post

Yeah, so things have been kind of busy the last week or so, and I've been really dead tired, which is why the world gets this all at once ^^ Started driver's ed last Monday, and man, does it suck. The instructor isn't a bad guy, but he can't hold on to a train of thought at all, so he'll sort of stop in the middle of statements, and wander off on tangents, and then forget what he meant to say, so it ends up being really boring. Add in that it's three hours every morning at 8:30, and yeah, I thouroghly dislike it. But it's only until this Friday, after which I can actually sleep well again. I've also been working a few different afternoons, which is as always, boring as hell, although I have found that not all of my co-workers are total bitches - a few of them are, but some of the other ones are really nice.

This past weekend got kicked off going to see a free outdoor performance of Twelfth Night, put on by a brand new theatre company. They suffered a bit from the massive lack of funding, in that there was very little in the way of sets or costumes, but it was otherwise quite good. First time I had ever seen Twelfth Night, and I enjoyed it ^^ Saturday was largely lazing around the house and sleeping late. My mom and I decided we were going to see Spiderman 2, but it ended up being some special showing that cost more, so we went to see I, Robot, instead.

Being a massive, massive Asimov fan, I was convinced they were going to totally kill it, but it was actually surprisingly good. For those who don't know, I, Robot isn't actually really a novel as much as a series of loosely connected short stories. The movie kind of used lots of different elements from the different stories, as well as one or two that I think were from The Caves of Steel, and succeded into making them all into some sort of coherent whole. The only major thing I found fault with is that I've always imagined Asimov's futures as being a little darker, more grimy, I suppose. Not quite as much as Gibson's Sprawl, but up there. Personal interpretation, I suppose ^^

We then came home, and I ended up watching South Park, and the South Park movie on tv with my brother. Very funny, although kind of stupid humor ^^

Sunday was yet another free Shakespeare night, this time in Boston. Bigger, older theatre company, the same ones who put on Macbeth last summer (which I give myself away as an X fan by saying I loved and found it to be wonderfully dark ^^), this time with Much Ado About Nothing. I invited Grace to come with us, and it was quite enjoyable except for a brief bit of rain. My mind is kind of stalling on commentary at the moment, so I may come back to that another day.

Which brings me to today, which will probably end shortly as I need to go to bed before I fall asleep down here. (Oh, another sign I need sleep is that I played part of the Ocean Lab section of Deus Ex, and then came down here and had the strange sense that my basement was half-filled with water or something...)