24/7

You don't often think about the Army being a 24/7 operation till your chain of command ask you to stay up 24 hours pulling CQ (Charge of Quarters) duty. It was all right though. I got a little reading in, studied some EFMB (Expert Field Medical Badge) material, and watched movies - awful movies. "28 Days Later" looked cool in the previews, always a bad sign you know, and someone from the Slate Movie Club just loved it; so of course I hated it. I don't think it was necessarily a bad movie, it just wasn't to my taste. The movie started off badly for me, I got anxious waiting for the dude to run into living people and I hated the ragged way he looked. I think the problem was that the movie was shot with British tastes in mind. The story takes place in London, the lead character speaks with a sometimes unintelligible British (I'd say cockney but I am not sure) accent, and the filmmaker was British (Danny Boyle, director of "Trainspotting".) If it had been an American movie the lead would have been brawny action-hero type or perhaps even a pretty girl. The violence would have been more spectacular and the colors brighter. I would have been entertained but most likely it would have destroyed everything the filmmaker was trying to achieve. The other movie I saw was "Time Machine" and really it was just a muddle. The action didn't do anything for me and I was wonder when Samantha Mumba was going to stop teasing us and either get naked or just cover up. I couldn't concentrate to watch the other movies so I'll reserve judgment.
If you want to cure somebody of hero worship I have just the pictures for you. Scary...
It's ironic that I'd see a headline about monkeys attacking children right after watching "28 Days Later".
I was trying to think of blogs to nominate for the Bloggies, when I realized that I don't read blogs anymore. Too time consuming.