Just one of those days

*sigh*..
Tired..

This has turned out to be one of those days when you know you've a lot to do but no energy to do them.

I know it didn't help at all that I stayed up untill 2am, drinking a few bottles of beer and just chatting. Hah, also was supposed to watch a movie but it was too damned scary - even for two grown up men like me and Markus. Alas, I felt ashamed but couldn't really help it.

After yesterday's entry, I went out for a two hour walk. Took some pictures and familiarized myself with the neighbourhood again. Even found a few new cool places. After that, me and Markus went out for a quick dinner and headed back to watch a movie.

The movie of choice was "The Dark" with Sean Bean (the only reason I bought the movie a long while ago), which I've been meaning to watch for quite some time now. So, we open a few beers, put in the movie. Watch it for 30 mins and decide it's too scary.

Hah, it wasn't "scary" as such but it, like so many horror movies these days unfortunately, based a lot of its "scaryness" on just making loud noises and quick flashing scenes. I hate that stuff. Even if the scene itself wasn't that bad, there's suddenly a bright flast of something and a loud noise. Shit, OF COURSE A PERSON WOULD JUMP UP THE CHAIR FOR THAT! They're called reflexes - and using them to increase movies shock-value is a very, very cheap trick. I personally prefer movies that are actually scary by plot and atmosphere, not movies where I have to constantly watch for cats, birds, memory-flashbacks, black-haired small girls saying "BOO!" when I least expect it.

"A reflex action is an automatic (involuntary) neuromuscular action elicited by a defined stimulus. In most contexts, especially involving humans, a reflex action is mediated via the reflex arc (although this is not always true in other animals, or in more casual usage of the term 'reflex'.)" - Wikipedia on reflex

I would like to stress the words "automatic" and "involuntary".

So, anyway. Didn't watch it longer than 30 mins. After that basically I just went to sit by the laptop and chat, while drinking away beer. Took me untill 2am to realize my mistake after which I corrected it (too late) and went to sleep.

Now I'm a living dead, sitting in the office.

"Idle is a term which generally refers to a lack of motion and/or energy." - Wikipedia on Idle

No motion. No energy. I live in a fluffy world of cotton candy and pink clouds right about now. Except for this damned "not enough sleep"-headache.

Luckily tomorrow is a day off because I we are celebrating some old Chinese poet by the name of Qu Yuan.

"Qu Yuan (Chinese: 屈原; Pinyin: qū yúan) (ca. 340 BC - 278 BC) was a Chinese patriotic poet from southern Chu during the Warring States Period. His works are mostly found in an anthology of poetry known as Chu Ci. His death is commemorated on Duan Wu or Tuen Ng Festival (端午节/端午節), commonly known as the Dragon Boat Festival in the West." - Wikipedia on Qu Yuan

This means that I can relax this evening and have a nice and creative quality time. Or then I can get totally wasted and not even remember what happened today, or last year for that matter.

No matter what, one thing is certain: I need better horror movies. Preferably with tentacles and shit.