Movies Seen:
Predators – Very quick to get into the plot. Silly one-liners. Seems sort of hopeless, because how can humans possibly defeat predators on their own turf? They can’t. Adrien Brody was incredibly jacked, and although I like Topher Grace, he plays most of his roles with the same plucky demeanor and it can be sort of annoying.

500 Days of Summer – Sorry, but this movie still bothers me. JGL aside, I think Summer was an annoying bitch to him.  I thought maybe a second viewing  would change my mind, but it did not.

Restaurants visited:
Carpe Diem for brunch. Tasty, although the service was slow.  Had a bacon omelette, which was egg with bacon, tomato, onions, cheese, and one leaf of basil.  The sides were potatoes and fruit, and with the potatoes some sort of giant, tasty bean. The chai was excellent.

California Pizza Kitchen for my belated birthday dinner with friends. The food was decent as usual. I got the margherita pizza and some water, because I’d had a terrible headache the entire afternoon.

Books Read:

The Pillars of the Earth – Finished this one, finally. What a good book. The style of writing is simple but pulls you along. The characters and plot is engrossing. It reminds me of GRRM (who wrote later, but whom I read first) without the fantasy elements. If you like historical fiction novels, this one is definitely a book to pick up.

Under the Dome – I’m about 350 pages into this one.  It’s okay. The binding is actually falling apart because I took the book out to the pool and it was so hot in the sunlight that the glue started to dissolve… I’m hoping that it won’t be completely dead by the time I return it to the library…

The Walking Dead – Well, the small neighborhood they found was full of zombies. The kid was shot, and now they’re staying at a farm where the farmer has been keeping the dead locked in the barn. What will happen next?

It was a good weekend. Friday night I helped a friend out and wrote a paper for her Shakespeare class. We did this while listening to music and drinking pina coladas. Later we started to watch  Daybreakers and freaked out when a giant insect crawled up the wall, scaring the living shit out of both of us.  It took me ten minutes to get up the courage to go kill that nasty insect and then vacuum up the remains.

Other than that, it was pretty good.

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