Oh, so that was Christmas....

breaking the month-long silence

it's time for an update, hmmm...

my last entry was about the bruised knuckle, i wish i could say that it''s all better now but i think sonething's still wrong with it. The bruise has long since gone but there's still a slight twinge of pain when i flex my right pinky. Oh well, that'll teach me to control my temper next time.

well hannah's back in the office after she her broken foot episode, hopefully i'll get my referral bonus soon as soon as she graduates from the academic bay or in non-call center lingo...when she becomes a regular. I can hear a distant kerching-kerching coming my way...i hope.

i'd like to say that i've become a khan addict but i haven't played at all since last week because the storms busted up our phone lines for 4 days adn i couldn't go online at all. So now i'm in withdrawal, will take up the addiction again as soon as the weather stabilizes and when i've had normal sleep, whichever comes first.

this week i discovered two scary things. The first one is The Exorsist (hehe, wrong spelling!!!). This 1970's film was recently made available thru favorite dvd supplier in GH. This movie scared the wits out of as a kid and now i've rediscovered why. It's been sitting on our shelf more than two weeks now, my brother and i just found the courage to watch it last night (i was absent, didn't want to go to work during the storm).

I couldn't even watch the movie straight...I was determined not to watch it so I played the sims while the movie played and just looked when i thought it was safe and/or when i couldn't help it.

The other discovery is one of the scariest villains i've encountered in film. Got hold of a copy of another 70's film from an officemate: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest starring Jack Nicholson. It's about a convict who faked insanity to get himself out of prison.

He soon discovered that life in the nuthouse was nowhere near the stroll in park that he expected. He found an adversary in Nurse Ratched, head pscho nurse...um, head nurse of the psycho ward i mean. Her job was to agitate all the loonies and trigger their fits...to the point that one of the manic depressive nuts committed suicide. Louise Fletcher who played Nurse Ratched won the 1975 Academy Award for Best Actress. She was so convincing, I wanted her character dead by the end of the film. The blurb describes her as "soft-spoken Nurse Ratched, among the most coldly monstrous villains in film history" and i couldn't agree more.

The rest of the film's credits include best actor (for Jack Nicholson, of course) best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay.

Ok time to sleep, will be back to work tonight where trouble awaits.