Just for the kick

Some things never change.

One of these is a shortage of books necessary for classes. My presentation for the history class is due on Wednesday, and neither of the essential books have been anywhere to be found. Oh well. At least there seemed to be a reading copy of the more important one, so I can write the thingy in the library. Possibly a couple of long working days ahead.

The country is celebrating a French Spring, entitled Pourquoi pas? My awesome (terrible) French skills (babelfish) tell me that it means why not? which is actually pretty clever. The concept is rather cool, since the thingy really is running for most of the spring. It began in late February and ends in the middle of May so they indeed do have grounds for dubbing it French Spring. The program reveals that there's a variety of things going on. As an aviation geek the first thing I had to do was checking out the Airbus exhibition, conveniently located at our campus. After reading the description, it was quite a let down, unless I didn't actually see everything. I certainly didn't come closer to gradually understand how a plane can fly in a simple and interactive way. What I saw was just a couple of posters, a few ads for Citroën, a few small scale models of the planes, a couple of films and a genuinely terrible flight simulator. O'well.

There's also a few interesting French films being shown at the university cinema. One of these is Paris, je t'aime which seems to be getting the most exposure. I'm definately going to see this one, even though it will be subtitled in Icelandic. Chances are that I won't understand anything about what's going on, but I'll give it a shot. At least it's not spoken Icelandic and written French.

I jumped the bandwagon and went see Little Miss Sunshine on Thursday. That one's easy to recommend, it's been a while since I watched something so genuinely funny. Also easily recommended is the new album from Air, which I picked up on said Thursday. One thing that makes me chuffed is that they are apparently playing in Iceland in July!

Sweeeeeeeeeeeet. I'm goin'.

I also had to neglect my dislike towards band/music/whatever shirts, since Amon Tobin put a couple out. This was an excellent display of postmanship, since the package was shipped to me from Canada just five days after I placed the order. I was prepared to wait at least three weeks. And, just how cool are these?