Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.*

[bending_sickle]

Today seemed to be an exercise in masochistic tourism. I did go to Noordwijk - whci takes ages, what with the walking to the train, the actual train, and a 40-plus minute bus ride.

It was 4 degrees C and extremely windy. Like, "pushing you backwards" windy. Walking in this weather was wonderfully exhilerating - even though I looked like a crazy woman - and I really did enjoy it. Until I had to turn back and it began to rain. Freezing cold raind pelted at you at high speeds whilst you struggle agaisnt the wind is a different kind of exhilerating.

Also? The beach was closed (wtf?!) as was the awesome pancake house I'd been aiming for. The result was me, wet and cold, wandering around a near-empty town, having a disapointing pancake in another place, and then waiting half an hour in the pouring rain and wind and wee degrees for the bus back to Leiden.

I took all my entertainment books too (notebook, diary and novel), but since there's no place to just sit - and the beach was closed, did I mention? - I only managed to scribble down "Pancakes!" in my diary and giggle as the mispeling vyrus took hold of Thursday's world.

Suckety suck suck.

Tomorrow's February, so I'm officially starting my internship - though I really don't want to 'cause it's Friday an' all and my superviser hasn't emailed regarding the forms. I might get my ass down to a cinema here in Den Haag, now that I've finally discovered one. I'd like to watch Lust Caution, but my Mandarin isn't up to par (unless the entire movie dialogue is a string of imaginative insults) and I frown on reading Dutch subtitles.

I might try to track down The Princess Bride Diaries... That's that funny one, with the narrator-commentary book one, yeah?


Links of the Day:
phdcomic's latest, "Why? Why??" is something I think we can all relate to ;)
Bioshock sounds bloody awesome. (Review at Zero Punctuation. The player takes the role of Jack, who aims to fight his way through Rapture, using weapons and plasmids that give him special powers such as telekinesis or the ability to electrify foes.
nowhack's Fanvid: Mary (Sylar, slight Mylar) features a fantastic song by Scissor Sisters


* Roger Miller

Comments

[blizzardcake.livejournal.com]

That phdcomic... that's my life almost every day :/

[(Anonymous)]

ok, there's a movie called The Princess Bride and there's ANOTHER movie called The Princess Diaries. the former is from the 80s and has a narrator and The Dread Pirate Roberts, whom you will adore, and the latter is from early 2000s with cute Anne Hathaway and is based on book one of a series. it's fun too and MIGHT had a narrator. i can't recall.

anyway, i think you want the first one.

i hope your 1st day into the internship went ok!

xxx
kit-kat

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

The Princess Bride it is! (I think.)

And, well, you know how successful Feb 1 "Internship commencement" went.