Dear Die-ary...

I have just realised that it is my father's birthday approaching very quickly. (Fact: I remember the date because it resides on the same day as Angry Kid's [alleged] birthday. Sad but true.) So for his birthday I decided to get him something I know he wants: A DVD set of The Master and Margarita series. Whether I have ordered the right one or not I'm not sure.

Anyway, here's the thing. I could only find such items on Amazon. Now, either I could have gone to the American Amazon site and ordered the DVD set for $40 (inc p&p), which is roughly £28, or I could have ordered it from the English Amazon site for £35. Both products were coming from the same place, New York, and I believe also from the same seller.

After pondering about this predicament for about 2 seconds, I went for the American site's offer. It's still bloody expensive for what it is, though.

Go here.

I should actually be doing my English Coursework now. But I can't be bothered. And know that, really, I should be doing this work right now because I'm gonna be asked about it tomorrow... Meh.

I was also very awkward when it came to deciding what I was gonna be doing for this c/w. Apparently I'm the only student ever (in this skool) to do anything like what I'm doing.

My idea for my c/w came from when I was watching "The Ladykillers" (1955 version, of course), and my Dad said to me, at least I think this is how it went, "(blah blah blah) How could anyone find the remake of this film funny?" And so, my c/w is investigating how humour is used in these two films!!

A bit of clever thinking from me, there. But have you ever made a decision, which you have equally decided was final, and then regretted it? I keep getting that: One moment it's like, "Wow. My coursework is going to be amazing." Then later I think: "WTF was I thinking. Someone explain." But I'm still gonna stick to it.

Even if my eyes burn out from all the swear words that keep appearing in the 2004 version's transcript.

Random note: I'm starting to get addicted to Matmatah (why? Don't ask me). Someone please stop me before it goes too far. As some may know, as well as German, I'm also learning French (and Norwegian, and Swedish, and Finnish, and...) but I must focus on GERMAN now. No more French, no more Matmatah. In today's German lesson I was like, "Wuh? What the hell are you saying to me?" "Ich habe, ,,Wo wohnst du denn, Emily?'' gesagt!!" *Doi*

Anyone who noticed I was not at skool today (hoorah for you), it was coz I was on a uni visit, not because I was snowed in. In fact, there was almost no snow to speak of... until I arrived there... and found myself with snow up to my knees.

Anyway. I have spent part of this evening looking for old videotapes because I have been 'informed' that if I found a particular episode of Victor and Hugo, which I know I have, I will be declared a national hero. Well, to some, at least.

All I've found so far is two videos full of Thunderbirds, and another containing a film, concerning a small child, a robot, a maze, a cabaret, and a group of midgets. I KID YOU NOT.

When I first bought the Sims 2, much later than when it first came out [because I like bargains and prefer to wait for them :)], I thought: "Wow. This is much better than The Sims. There is no way they could improve on this. It's perfect." Shortly afterwards, the creation of The Sims 3 was anounced.

So I've looked at the previews. And the concept scares me intensely. The thing I like about the Sims 2 is that you can concentrate on one family, watch them grow up, get sick of them, and then return to an earlier family, or make another. With the Sims 3, reportedly, as one family grows up, as does the rest of the neighbourhood. Although this was presented as a perk with the game, I consider it to be ultimately a turn off. Plus, they got rid of 'environment' and 'comfort' moods, which I thought was a pretty dumb thing to do, as in real life, comfort and environment can play an important part in your overall mood.

And the detail! Yikes. With such advanced graphics (and still the Sims are ugly) I doubt the size of the game is anything less than 4 gigs... And the price anything less than £50/(about) $90.

Sure the game is closer to life. Sure the game should 'flow' better than TS2. Hopefully in TS3 the Sims won't keep dying off; two of my Sims on TS2 have already died of unknown causes. They were absolutely fine, moods all in the green, no illnesses, no fires or flies or anything else... and then, one got out of bed and just died, and the other (in another house) got up off the toilet and just died for no reason at all. Hopefully this won't happen in TS3.

As they aim for TS3 to be as close to real life as possible, I think they've gone TOO close to real life. You might as well live your own.

*gasp*