The Faculty

Last night was pretty quiet. I was watching some of the film The Faculty on TV. It's a 1998 film directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Kevin Williamson (who wrote Scream and created Dawson's Creek) about a high school in Ohio where the teachers and most of the students become taken over by alien parasites. It's up to a small group of students to stop the invasion. Basically it's Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets The Breakfast Club. I've seen it a few times, and I remember seeing it at the cinema, but I didn't watch it today. I can't remember what I decided to see instead, but I think it might have been Father Ted. I also went on to the computer to start writing a horror movie script.

When I woke up this morning I had that moment where I forgot what day it was and thought that it was still the weekend, until I realised that I had set my alarm clock early so that must mean I had work. Worse, the fact that I had a second where I thought it was the weekend could only mean Monday morning.

However, I managed to get Friday and next Monday off on annual leave. I've got plenty of annual leave, so I thought it would be fun. Also I get paid this week, with backpay, hopefully, so it should be good. It was a pretty quiet day at work. I was listening to my iPod during the afternoon.

On my way home from work I got the latest issue of Empire magazine, which was listing the "500 Greatest Films of All Time". Number one was The Godfather, which was a really good film. I've seen that one a few times as well.

When I got home I had a mushroom risotto microwave meal, which I hadn't had before and was actually nicer than I had expected. When I switched my light on, the bulb blew out, so i went to change it. However, that didn't work and it turned out that it was the fuse, but I managed to fix it.