Lego is one of the best things the human race has ever created, up there with the Rubix Cube and memory foam mattresses. Most of yesterday evening I spent embroiled in battle with the Lego pieces hunting them down and adding them to my creations, its among the most relaxing things to ever do, the possibilities are endless. In time you become one with the Lego and things rapidly form, I created a spaceship and the front end of a harrier jumpjet, my housemate; a badass robot that turned into a plane. Pretty cutting edge stuff. The state of zen I was in was a welcome escape from the stresses of life, perhaps Lego should be included in spa packages. Blocks of Lego could replace those silly cucumbers and you could bathe in a pool of molten plastic, great for the pores. People say that Lego is just a kids game, which isn't fair as the adult version is the construction industry and its hardly the same thing, I'll stick with the bits of plastic.
Today in my lab we were given a group task for the next couple of months, and we had to fill out a team skills self-perception questionairre. This is the Belbin Team Roles theory which suggests what team roles you would fill . It turns out I probably shouldn't be in a team at all considering I scored 4 for 'Team Worker' which is atrocious. Worse I scored 0 for Investigator, which is a shame as I'm stuck with being Watson to everyone else's Holmes. There is a Simpson one on the internet where you are allocated a character, I'm not going to try it as I will probably get Milhouse. The group work is about urinary tract infections, word on the street is that Cranberry juice helps prevent them. Which could be good news for Ocean Spray, so we have some experiments to devise and bacteria to count. I have cleared a spot on the mantelpiece for my Nobel Prize.
Sunshine, its a fantastic movie. Not enough people have seen it and its a damn shame, the basic premise is that our Sun is dying about 50 years in the future, A device has been created that is meant to be detonated inside the sun to reignite it thus saving our future. A previous mission disappeared and a final mission are on their way, and this is where the film begins on a spaceship closing in on Mercury. Its pretty fantastic the entire way through. Stars like our sun have an impossible beauty, and true comprehension of its sheer power would leave me in a vegetable like state being fed Bovril through a tube, and its this realisation that makes this film so epic in sense. It is well acted, and suitably sinister when it needs to be. The score is also amazing, one of the songs is called Surface of the Sun, and if you get suitably intoxicated, and put this on, you can be physically pleasured, its better than Vegas with a suitcase full of cocaine. Actually that's ridiculous, nothings better than that.
Before bed I'm going to get the Lego out make a spaceship and fire myself into the sun.
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