definitely a first

woke up, watched a horror movie - the grudge, ate humus, now going back to bed. not only is it definitely not a normal sequence of events, but it's also the first movie in years to really give me the creeps. i quite enjoyed myself. it's also nice to be awake and alert during sunrise.

and after watching the movie's americans struggling with japanese, i'm motivated to do a bit of studying before bed.

as for yesterday, i did the shopping thing, but spent the rest of the day indoors. i finished dan brown - digital fortress. the story had potential, but his characters are absolutely retarded. and they're supposed to be the smartest people in the industry, with, and i quote, "170 IQ". fuck right off.

but the idea of the NSA going down to phishing is a nice one.

i finally got around to reading rogue trooper. it's good - totally worth it - but i've only read the later parts, where the names of the biochips are more... let's say, creative. that through sheer happenstance his gun's name is "gunnar", his bag's name is "bagman", his helmet's name is "helm", and his own real name is "rogue", is a tad lazy, unimaginative, silly, irritating... but at least i know that it changes at some point to the cool names.

that about covers everything. my mommy arrives in a little over 24 hours - w00t!