Everybody has a secret world inside of them - Neil Gaiman, Sandman

Not much to report beyond the fact that I have been going to job interviews this week. The one I went to yesterday seems to have gone really well since I've already been notified that I've made it through to the second round of interviews.

The job itself pays well; eight thousand, five hundred bucks plus petrol money and commissions. And, sure, money is an important factor especially since I'm planning on possibly doing a second degree at some point, but I also got a good vibe off them so keeping my fingers crossed.

Unfortunately this'll probably impact my online times but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

Got another surprise birthday present this weekend -- well, strictly speaking I guess it's more three than one; two charms (complete with Grid bugs oh my goodness!) and the picture, but I'm hardly going to nitpick now am I? Presents are presents are presents and the two little charms are so very delightful and completely unique.

So there's definitely that.

Saw Captain America yesterday. I feel rather bad that the whole time I was watching, I was thinking: LOKILOKILOKILOKILOKI!

...who didn't really appear until that little Easter egg thing at the end and even then only briefly. Hugo Weaving did a good job as Red Skull though, I thought. It's difficult to take anyone with a red face like that seriously and yet he managed to be both sinister and intimidating. So good on him for that.

I'm still trying to figure out how they made Chris Evans so puny. I realize - especially after seeing Christian Bale in The Machinist - that it's likely that they could have probably managed at least part of it with extreme weight loss there were some little quirks that make me wonder if there wasn't some sort of elaborate computer trickery involved, and if so I have to say that they're getting better at that sort of thing. It's one thing to do something with visual effects, it's another thing entirely to do it well.