Tuesday September 8

Really really dragging ass today. It's not even 9 yet, so hopefully I will come to life, but the day is not off to a promising start.

I came to campus a bit early today, but I don't really know why. Mostly I use this time to clear a bit of the homework backlog, but I can't really do that now. I don't quite have everything done, yet, I'm sort of stuck at this point where I just can't do the rest of it. It's not a mental block or a matter of motivation, I've just reached the limits of what I know how to do. This keeps happening and it is really becoming bothersome. But I guess that is what graduate school is for, right, pushing through and giving things the "old college try"?

I finally got around to watching Casino Royale last night, the first 007 movie with Daniel Craig. I was unimpressed with how it started. I thought, "aw crap, another mindless action flick", but it actually got a lot better as it went a long. It was really a very interesting interpretation of the Bond character. We tend to think of 007 as this rather cold super agent unencumbered by emotion, but in Casino Royale, he's really just a big sap. Hard to imagine a past Bond character who almost gets killed by a woman he was in love with (not just a woman he wanted to make love to). I suspect this was how a real Bond would be.

And Daniel Craig is just plain ripped...