04:06 am greencastle, june 24; 05:06 pm taipei, june 24

movie plans fell through; sold out, apparently. i suppose that's something of a problem with huge populations and only one screen per theatre, eh? ah, well. barney says that maybe we can go some other time or something. today, the plans were because one of his friends was going away for a short while. see, he goes to this "european school" thing, which is attended by students from all over, or something. methinks the primary language is english, and other languages--french, german, chinese, whatever--are electives. one of his friends is heading off somewhere and they were putting together some movie thing to kinda see him off. ah, well.

...finished "the mote in god's eye," the niven and pournelle novel i'd brought. it...ended amazingly. i'll not bore anyone with the details (including myself; i just read the book, you know, and i often go over the book in brief in my head once it's been concluded.), but it was generally about first contact with another alien species, extraordinarily and unfathomably more developed than humans, but crippled by unavoidable periodic wars. and by "extraordinarily and unfathomably," i mean something along the lines of these aliens having records of civilization from millions (read: millions) of years ago, their most recent ascent from primitive environments alone being dated with five digits. in base twelve. so...roughly somewhere between twenty thousand years and two-hundred forty thousand.

uh oh, sushi-time soon, and i got off the phone having made some plans with my for the weekend and stuff, and i filled out that survey thing...and stuff. woo.