Sunday 15th June 2008

A productive morning, if I must say so myself. I got myself down the gym for an hour session at 8am. Then when I got back, after spending a few hours lounging about in cyberspace, I went over to ASDA to collect my suit from the dry cleaners and purchase some bags of ice. Then as soon as I got back I started the mission to clean the car. If I am honest I could have cut corners and gone to directly applying the wax as the car was relatively clean. I prefer to start from scratch. Whenever it comes to a task such as this, you feel you have a big mountain to climb but once you get going it does not take that long. I started just after midday and finished before 2pm. (I did not apply the wax, prefer to wait for my next wash, next weekend when I have more time). When I finished, I packed up all my things and came inside. As I put on television, it was a few minutes until 2pm. I switched to Sky News, Air Force One had just landed at Heathrow and was taxing on the runway. At precision 14:00 hours it came to a standstill. (Literally as the Sky News clock ticked over to 14:00, the wheels came to a stop) If only my life could be so perfectly timed? Not done a great deal this weekend, I was right to describe my weekend to Pav as “nothing dot com” on MSN on Friday afternoon. Yesterday I got up relatively late around 10.30am and then just lounged about for most of the day. I watched Van Wilder 2: The Rise Of Taj on Friday night and was very disappointed. Making a sequel without your main star is always a big risk, so this was your straight to DVD affair with a rather low key C-list cast. Even the idea was rather rubbish and Kal Penn is never the same draw as Ryan Reynolds. Therefore I had high hopes for Old School, particularly as it stars Luke, my favourite of the two Wilson brothers. I watched that on Saturday night after the football. It was good fun but almost immediately forgettable. The idea of creating a new fraternity in order to stay in the house was clever but slowly lost direction in place of complete comic stupidity. I then watched Accepted this morning to bring my college related movie count to three in total for the weekend. The movie this morning perhaps being the best of the three in terms of story and comedy. Plus the relatively unknown cast make watching much more enjoyable, you do not have a body of work to compare their performances to. Football has been great this weekend so far. The Dutch demolished the old men of France in a thrilling game on Friday night. Then Spain overcame Sweden just about in a tight match yesterday afternoon. The Russian and Greek tie I only caught the second half of but it was rather flat in places. Tonight we have the start of the final group game phase with matches played at the same time. As I type this the Czech Republic lead Turkey by two goals, looks like my hopes for a penalty shootout are dead and buried. Hold on, what is this? The greatest come back in European Championship history? The best goal keeper in the world looking like a has been?

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