I've been ridiculously busy this week because in the midst of graduating from college I also got a new job and have already started. It's just data entry (read: incredibly, horribly boring) but it's for a non-profit I've volunteered with for years and they're paying me $12 an hour so I'm really not complaining. The most obnoxious thing is that the internet sometimes doesn't work. Very frustrating! But the guy I'm workingclosest with is a friend of mine and I have a couple of other friends working here too so it all evens out I think.

In other news, I saw the x-men movie last night and I was a little unexcited by it. It was exactly what I had been afraid of: it was just all action all the time and it didn't have any of the psychological/political overtones of the first two. I still enjoyed it, I mean it was pretty entertaining, but on the whole? It was kind of a let down. Especially since they fucked the Dark Phoenix mythology all to hell and gone. I mean seriously. Professor X! The power of Wolverine's love!

I hate that they never really addressed the fact that they essentially set up two bad guys in the film: Magneto and the cure, and then just ignored both of them in favor of the Bigger Plot of Wolverine's Great Love for Jean. I mean seriously. Magneto's last line? "What have I done?" I call bullshit. Neither Magneto or Mystique would have ginormous changes of heart that quick. And having the ending be so happy go lucky/Beast is the head of the US's United Nations delegation, see the president's not a bad guy at all annoyed the hell out of me too. It's like they never even read a single x-men comic or something. Plus it's still not the x-men without Gambit. And if they were going to introduce a new character (Warren) why the hell couldn't they at least give him a few more lines?