.: so comes snow after fire :.

It's the longest day of the year, my favourite one! And yet, sadly, this morning my iPod, my good ol' G-ERTI, had a technical malfunction. Probably my fault for giving it that name. Anyway, the volume thingy got stuck (yes, I am a creature of immense mechanical aptitude too), and according to the website it would cost at least 100 euros to get it fixed. In other words, new iPod. I ordered one from the website, so that I could have the engraving too. Pictures to follow when it gets here, probably on monday morning.

In the afternoon I wore my Tony Stark shirt and went to the cinema to see Star Trek Into Darkness, because here in Italy it came out last week. And yet I had managed to avoid any and all spoilers, go me. By the way, I chose the Tony Stark shirt because I don't have a Star Trek one, and that's appalling, considering I've loved Star Trek since I was 11. RedBubble, here I come.

Spoiler-free review! I loved it. I absolutely loved it. The first part was good, but nothing special, but the second part was fantastic, and made me cry and jump in my seat and feel like a kid again, watching the original series on my old tv (the one that exploded - long story). There are only two major flaws that I can see (well, three, but the third is a huge spoiler, so it goes under the cut): first, that annoying, completely pointless shot of Carol in her underwear. It had no reason to be there, except that she has boobs and we need to see them. And it makes even less sense considering that she's a competent, smart character with a compelling storyline. So what the hell. The second flaw is that we didn't really get to learn enough of John Harrison's past. I'm not asking for flashback, just a couple of dialogues more would have helped with understanding other characters' reactions to him.

Also, Benedict Cumberbatch was extraordinary. I mean, I already knew he was good, he is one of my favourite actors for a reason, but here he was... absolutely incredible. Way above the other actors, who are all really good. He's just completely on a league of his own. Holy shit. And I watched the dubbed version (an amazing Simone D'Andrea, who really managed to re-create his speech patterns), I can only imagine what the original version must be. My head will probably explode.

( Off to spoilerrific land! )

And now, off to dinner! \o/

So, it's true. When the Apple website tells you the courier will reach your home before 9 am, he actually does. Great. :D

So, my old iPod's battery has been acting up these last few weeks, and lately it wouldn't last more than three hours. Considering I've had this iPod for years, and I use it everyday, it's a miracle it lasted this long. I had to buy a new one before leaving, because there's no way I'm sitting for hours in an airport without any music, and so I decided to go for an iPod nano this time.


All the available colours were pretty, but I fell in love with the blue one as soon as I saw it.


Turns out that if you buy your iPod from the online store, you can have a free engraving. I spent a good hour trying to decide what to write. Runner up was "Carry On Wayward Son", but all things considered that was too sad, so I went for this. :D

In other news, yesterday I finished Cabin Pressure (and it was the last thing I ever listened to on my old iPod, that's a great way to go), so bring on the links! Fanfics, fanarts, what have you, I need my fix. *________*

So, great news about iTunes. It took me more than 6 hours yesterday, and I had to delete dlls and weird stuff I had no idea even existed on my pc, while browsing the entire support section on the apple website, but at last it's working again. That means that if I connect my iPod to my pc, that stupid program doesn't delete everything on it. Now I have 126 songs, while a week ago I had 8 gbs of stuff. Oh well.

On other news, the sun is finally here! Obviously that means it's so cold it felt like my nose was about to fall off, but I was so happy I didn't care. The sky was so blue, and I could feel the sun warming up my cheeks, it was great. Then when I came home I drank lots of hot tea, because it was still really, really cold. :D

Now I'll add more songs to my iPod and have dinner. Cold weather does work up an appetite.

I'm having problems with Itunes again. It deleted everything on my Ipod twice, and that's three times in two weeks. So now I'm re-creating all my playlists, re-editing all the artwork on photoshop, and I swear to god if it does that again I'm going to do an exorcism.

On other news, Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded is pretty addictive. Considering I hate platform sequences (god, how much I hate them) it took me only two tries to defeat the final boss on Traverse Town, and now I'm in Wonderland. Still my least favourite Disney world, but it brings back so many memories.

I'm having problems with Itunes again. It deleted everything on my Ipod twice, and that's three times in two weeks. So now I'm re-creating all my playlists, re-editing all the artwork on photoshop, and I swear to god if it does that again I'm going to do an exorcism.

On other news, Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded is pretty addictive. Considering I hate platform sequences (god, how much I hate them) it took me only two tries to defeat the final boss on Traverse Town, and now I'm in Wonderland. Still my least favourite Disney world, but it brings back so many memories.