I Need to Sleep

What a crazy week this has been. Between school and... well, more school, I've been running all over the place. Luckily, I managed to finish all of my papers, get to my debate and to make it to the Burma Studies Conference this weekend. Unfortunately, my sleep cycle is now shot to hell. I've been sleeping erratically all week. That's erratically, not erotically... completely different context there.

With any luck, I won't have to talk about lateral abductor mechanisms in A. afarensis again for quite a while.

So after my test on Monday, I will be able to relax and enjoy the rest of my week. At least until it gets to the point where five hundred or so things all pile up at once again, as things are sure to do just because the Gods enjoy tormenting us lowly mortals. Oh come on... Didn't anyone out there ever read Homer's Ὀδύσσεια? One of my favorite books growing up... I always thought Odysseus was one of the coolest heroes.

Incidentally, for those of you already familiar with Greek and Roman culture, you probably won't be surprised to know that Odysseus was known to the ancient Etruscan civilization of Italy as well (as Uthuze). Just thought I'd throw that out there, cause the Etruscans don't get alot of love over here.

I've gotta thank Michelle for bringing over the Office and the last few episodes of Chuck so that I'm now all caught up with that. Now I've just gotta catch up on Heroes and I'll be good.

Also, Noureen deWulf made a cameo as a spy/pita delivery girl, which was awesome, since I don't think I've seen her in anything since 'American Dreamz' (which, admittedly, was a pretty cheesy movie).



A google search turned up images of her and Kim Kardashian (who appearantly got voted off 'Dancing with the Stars' this season before I could see it; what a pity) at the Maxim Awards.



Personally, I find Maxim and those sort of magazines to be a little trashy, though. Me, I'd much rather be reading trashy pulp novels with burly, square chinned, bare fisted adventurer-scientists who pounce off to darkest Africa or exotic India, find lost civilizations and relics, make love to beautiful women and fight against the Nazis (or Commies, or whoever the generic villian of the week is these days). Does anyone else remember that genere? I've got a whole book full of the covers of those, and let me just say, wow!



WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH! Actually... I think the thing on his shoulder is maybe a muskrat or something, but I rest my case. Those pulp adventure stories were really something else... animal attacks, head hunters, 1950's super-science, lost civilizations, sultry naked women.

Well, that or trashy books about bigfoot, UFOs and global conspiracies. Either is good by me.

But, back onto the subject of hot Asian chicks, Navi Rawat is appearantly reprising her role as 'the Heroine' in the straight to DVD sequel to 'Feast', appropriately enough called 'Feast II: Sloppy Seconds.' Comes out this Tuesday, and I'm quite excited about that. I'm also baffled, since her character (and, actually, several of the others) all got eaten in the first movie, but whatever. Knowing almost nothing about it beyond the fact that it features the monsters attacking a small town in the middle of nowhere, I fully plan on buying it. The first movie freakin' blew me away, so I expect great things from the sequel. This means movie night, folks.



And, on that same subject, I'm also looking forward to the (eventual) release of Cryptid, which may or may not be released under a different name. I've found very little about this movie, beyond that it stars Lori Petty, Sandra Teles and Petey Pablo, and is about 'bigfoot in South Africa.' Presumably it was inspired by both Zulu stories about the Tokoloshe and archaeological evidence about Australopithecines, which ironically brings us full circle.

Between 'Feast II,' 'Vipers' (the newest movie in the Maneaters series) and Dario Argento's 'La Terza Madre,' I'm going to have quite a few good horror flicks for this Halloween. Go me!