More movies and school

Soo...Two more movies watched:

Fair Game (Naomi Watts, Sean Penn): This is the movie about Valerie Plame Wilson and the scandal back in 2003 (I think it was 2003) about her status as a CIA agent being revealed. The movie is based off her book with the same title. It was an okay movie. The movie started in early 2003 (I think) and basically led up to the moment she testified. It was an odd combination of trying to chronicle her being a CIA agent (she does some convert things in the Middle East) and the moment she's revealed. So it starts off like a spy type film and then moves into a drama. I don't remember the whole trial and investigation (I remember hearing about it too -- who can forget a name like Scooter Libby!), but this movie was really before the trial and the investigation happens in the background as it goes through her martial struggles with her husband and all that. It was okay. I don't even know if I can really grade it, but for shear entertainment, here's my opinion. Grade: C/C+

Love & Other Drugs (Anne Hathaway, Jake Gyllenhaal): This film was kind of weird because it's classified underneath a rom-com, but it migrates from a rom-com to a drama. It's definitely an adult film and there is a fair amount of cussing and nudity (saw Hathaway's breast a lot and Gyllenhaal's butt a few times). This movie is also based off a book called "Hard Sell" and it's mostly about a viagra salesman, which Gyllenhaal plays. However, Hathaway's character and story is thrown into the movie and (based on the book reviews) does not exist in the book at all. The movie has a feel of a true story since Pfizer is showcased and some other drugs. It was funny at points and it was a cute rom-com for itself, but it wasn't really that impressive. The love story definitely takes the forefront over the selling of pharmaceutical drugs and Parkinson's plays an interesting role in this too (Hathaway's character has early onset of Parkinson's). Other than that...eh. Grade: C

School started this week. My LAST quarter of grad school! I managed to make a great first impression with a prof because she thought class got out at 11:30, but the Bren schedule says 11:15. So at 11:20 I raised my hand and said, "Doesn't class get out at 11:15?" She said, "Does it? I have it written as 11:30. Oh well, I'll go ahead and let you guys out now." Weird. I have never been in a Bren class that lasts longer than 1:15 hours unless it's a lab and those are typically 1:50 hours. So...who knows. I guess I'll find out Monday who was right. LoL I have had a class with her before too. Although, I doubt she remembers me beyond facial recognition. :) That was my policy class...and I have to come up with a policy to do a case study on. I can't decide what to do...Anything I want to do isn't environmental or I've already done it if I know it. I guess I'll do some policy research. It can be anything too: state, local, national, international.

My other class that I might drop (can't decide) is climate change impacts. I want to learn in the class, but don't want to do any of the work! UGH! So...I don't know if I'll keep with it or drop it. We have to do a case study about some location, all the data, and determine if and how climate change will impact a location. It's interesting, but I don't want to do all the tedious work of the weekly writing assignments that are reflections on what we read. Ironically, climate change impacts has very similar assignments to my policy class and even requires us to turn them in 24 hours before the class. So weird.

My other class is the marine environment in a changing world and class was canceled on Monday. Supposedly it was going to be reschedule, but we still haven't heard about that so I wonder if we'll have class twice one week instead. I'm looking forward to that class, though. End of April is when my fisheries economics advanced class (1.5 weeks) starts. I'm a little intimidated, I must admit. Economics in 1.5 weeks...What was I thinking?! Oh well.

I ordered my Oberon iPad cover! I'm soooo excited! My "to buy/wish list" keeps increasing, though...Somehow when you buy things from it, it just manages to add a new thing on. :P I do really like their customer service, though. I ordered the iPad cover last night and this morning I got a call asking if I wanted it for the original iPad or iPad 2. They have been getting a TON of requests for them to do an iPad 2 cover so they wanted to make sure I knew it was only for the 1st version. It was very nice of them to double check.

Anyway, with that...back to rearranging the apartment and gotta do some school reading for next week. Trying to get ahead. Good intentions, but there's always "tomorrow".