Hello readers. It looks like another late night for your narrator, which may result in another day of feeling like a sloth in a vacuum. (Slow, sluggish and slightly removed from everything going on around it). But perhaps my current good mood will win through and I’ll be able to combat the weariness.
I have been in really high spirits today. The sun was out for most of it, and despite a wind that blew as fierce as that which plagues the poor souls condemned to spend eternity in Dante’s second level of hell (and breathe), it was warm.
What has brought on this sudden spell of joviality? I don’t know. Perhaps it was having had time over the weekend to put everything out of my mind and actually rest. Yesterday I had the best nights sleep I have had in a long while, and I certainly felt it today. But then it could be down the distressing exercise I am attempting to work through right now. That exercise being the removal of sources of stress and tension in my life, and where it cannot be removed; I find a solution to it – or work around it.
It has seen me make some pretty drastic decisions over the last few days, time will tell whether they have been the correct ones for me. My head is a lot clearer right now, and I have found myself able to concentrate on the things that I could be concentrating on. Unfortunately life isn’t that simple, I have other people to consider and have to find a balance between doing what is right for me, and what is fair for them.
I’ll pick that up in a future post, it’s now past midnight and I should really be getting some sleep soon. Another day of fun and excitement at the office awaits me in, well less than seven hours now.
Before I sign off, my housemate and I went to see Watchman earlier. I had never read the graphic novel, but having heard a lot about it I went in with pretty high expectations. The film wasn’t what I expected, but I liked that, and I liked the film on the whole. It was refreshing to see ‘superheroes’ actually facing the emotional stress of their livelihood and deal with it in an arguably more human way than the heroes we see in Marvel. (Don’t take that as I knock at Marvel, I love marvel comics. More so than I probably should, I can’t help being a geek). But in Watchman the morally grey area all superheroes inhabit was not glossed over, we have it thrust in our faces with gritty realism (ish – its still a comic after all). The characters continually made decisions, and acted in ways you might think heroes like Batman or the Punisher are capable off, but generally paid little heed to.
The soundtrack and cinematography were also really good. There were some great camera shots in the combat scenes, and I realty liked the nighttime cityscapes. Definitely worth watching if you are a fan of the genre.
I think I'll leave you know. It its 00:30, and in the occasional periods of time when I am not typing, there is nothing but silence. A rarity when you live in the city centre. I'm going to go enjoy the moment, and hopefully after some palaver with the sandman he will take pity on me and Shepherd me into the dreamscape of a deep sleep.
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