Pills from Ruth

It's the the year 2008, kids! And what a year it could be, I've got a good feeling about the year of the rat, a gut feeling, a whisper from my ghost, a blessing from the Emperor.
Hopefully I'll be driving before too long and that alone will open up a whole new world of adventures for me, all of which will ideally be adequately funded by a stable job. With wheels and money I will be a very content young man, and that's hardly setting my goals too high. 12 months ago my new year's resolution was to not die, and I did pretty well at that so I think this year I could kick it up a notch.
So far my overall plans are thus; get a driving licence, get a stable job, don't lose Nicola. This will be the first year of my life (or my life that I care to recall) where I haven't had to worry about homework or tests, not that I ever did really, so I shouldn't find it too hard to dedicate myself to those three goals. Maybe at the turn of 2009 I will even be able to review my successes or failures in those tasks right here at the Commissariat, or maybe I'll be getting frostbite in Siberia after being conscripted into the coalition forces waging a costly ground war against the east in World War 3, ahh the possibilities.

More recently I went to see I Am Legend at the cinema, very good film, although I desperately wish I had read the book first, but now the film has ruined it for me forever. Not to say that it is anything as trivial as knowing the plot, like with Battle Royale when I read a book after having seen the film I just find myself trying to remember each bit from the film the whole way through, which is not at all enjoyable.
The film was cool, anyway. Will Smith put on a damn good show, regardless of it being the same character he always plays. And the directing, while not being anything spectacular, was faultless.
One of the main things I enjoyed about the film was how you could clearly see that it had been adapted from a novel, successfully, as opposed to Northern Lights which is an entirely different ballgame. It felt utterly devoid of all the same bullshit straight-out-of-film-school directing techniques you get laden with from all other 'blockbuster hits' and the film didn't pander to the audience with specific stereotypical scenes, despite being heavily modified from what I know of the original plot to provide a happier ending.
Good film, if you don't care for reading I would recommend watching it.