Politologia didn't suck because we watched a movie. That's about all I can say. No, that's actually a lie. I could say a lot about this movie, because I actually kinda liked it even though we did have to watch it for class and it's a fairly typical heavy-handed Soviet film. But it had lots of Jesus in it, which made it very interesting from a subversive point of view. Anyway, this film is called "The Ascent," and it tells the story of these two soldiers in WWII who go out to try to find food to save their village and their misadventures. The upshot is that they get captured by the Germans and one of the soldiers (the one that we've thought is the weaker one) stands up to torture and doesn't betray his comrades, while the other breaks without even the threat of torture. The one who's been tortured then tries to sacrifice himself to save the lives of the other prisoners with him. This doesn't work, but there's a lot of nice suffering Jesus shots and white light. Blah blah blah. I could talk a lot more about the cinematography, but this is only interesting if you've seen the movie. So whatever. Moving along.

After school, I was supposed to go try to see a movie (again) with Reid and Candice. Reid had to go to EuroMed for a checkup, so Candice and I investigated movies. They were either all at bad times or too expensive, so we set up camp in the internet café with cheap wi-fi and dicked around until Reid came back. I did almost all of the little internet errands that I'd been either putting off or just forgetting to do. Like signing up for Hospitality Club. And the GRE. I'm talking it on November 11. Soon. Barf. So instead of going to a movie, we had dinner and then the "one beer" that of course turned into several. But it was good times. Candice tells too many stories about the good old days of undergrad in Texas or about Ultimate Frisbee, or about previous trips to Russia, but she's okay other than that. And I like Reid. Anyway, I also like beer.

I'd had horrible insomnia all week, but I slept well tonight. About fucking time.