I've been spending a week in the city. I arrived on Monday. I spent most of my Tuesday with two of my roommates wandering around in the city enjoying the weather. I also went to see War of the Worlds on Wednesday. Myself and roommate S got tickets for the premiere. A whopping 12 euro and 50 cents as opposed to 6 euro for a ticket with my discount pass. And what does one get for the additional cost? A walk on a red carpet, a horrible tasting alcoholic beverage, some salmon on toast, yucky salty popcorn and a soda. Oh and some girl on a microphone telling everybody what movie we're about to see. D'oh! I'm never ever paying to see a premiere again. What a waste of money.

The fact that the movie was great made up for it though. Everything was great apart from the ending, which was a bit abrupt. Other than that I have no complaints. It's just a really great movie with loads of thrilling on the edge of your seat kinda scenes. I also watched Napoleon Dynamite, which was a very different movie, but equally brilliant. I also watched Sin City, which was also pretty good. A great cast in a stunning visual style. Yes, I’m not much of a movie review writer.

Our landlord did not kick out our thieving roommate. Her mother is apparently still seeking alternative accommodation and while she’s doing that her daughter gets to stay right where she is. I have a feeling she’s going to be here for a while. I get to wake up every morning to her and her boyfriend arguing. I guess she’ll continue to mess up the house for a while too. That’s just great. Just great. I spent about an hour cleaning the oven, because she made a mess. Whatever was inside the oven, it was turned into charcoal by the time I was cleaning it up. Sure, why didn’t I make her clean it up? Because she just denies it was her fault every time she’s confronted about stuff like that and then ends up not cleaning up anything.

Our landlord came to the house yesterday, because roommate S owed him some money. He (our landlord) was getting pretty nasty, threatening to change the lock on S’s door if he didn’t get his money. Of course S had to be stupid and go into a debate with him about tenants rights and how our landlord isn’t even permitted to change the locks, even if someone’s behind on rent. S changed the lock on his door himself, just in case. Our landlord told him he had seized someone’s big screen TV and play station, because someone was behind on rent. I don’t know if there’s any truth to that though, it could just be bluff. Although our landlord was being pretty nasty, S isn’t being very smart. He has the money, he just doesn’t bother to pay on time. A matter of principle, he told me. Sounds pretty stupid to me.

My best friend had his presentation this week. His paper wasn’t good enough, so he flunked and has to find another place to go work as an intern. Bah, that sucks. Although I’m relatively sure my paper is slightly better than his, it still gives me a really bad feeling about next week when I have to defend my paper. M started writing his paper really late, even later then me. I guess I’ll just hope for a grade that’s just high enough to pass and that the questions they ask me aren’t very difficult ones.