Variations on the same theme

In a less squeeful post, we went and saw HP again last night. I have still not recovered from the Snape love, and the cuffs love (will icon very soon). Possibly it's actually gone worse. But while on a first screening I managed to cling to the liking I have of Hermione, on the second viewing it is absolutely impossible. In this movie, she is unbearable. Absolutely unbearable.

Have watched Blood - the Last Vampire, a fairly good anime that I bought due to its cheapness on CDiscount. Is it the pilot for a series? Because it ought to be. Am very intrigued by the interaction between David and Saya - the bonds that are born out of forced cooperation, I suppose.

Am also going through Profit again and loving it. Oh how I'm loving it. The ninetiesness is rather amusing, now, but it does not detract from the script. Such good scripts. I can only deplore the lack of audio commentaries.

We went to an American grocery store yesterday (thanks for the address heikki_cheren!) and bought Dr. Pepper (hurray!), cream cheese, crackers, mango chutney and bagels. Hmmmcreamcheese. Can't wait to taste mango chutney, too, which I don't think I have before. I'll trust Joey, and the "mango" bit, that it's something to look forward too. And then we stopped by this English library and I kinda couldn't help myself and bought the Chronicles of Narnia and the Saga of the Icelanders. Two huge books. Very pricy. But I truly couldn't help myself.

Which incidentally means that my Icelandic story is officially on hiatus until I'm done reading the Icelandic saga and I can rework it all accordingly. Since I've just started on the Saga of the Grail (well, I'm a good 100 pages into it and Merlin has just been born... worst is? I'm really enjoying it), I think the hiatus isn't about to end. I'm such a sucker for myths.

Very quick post. We're back! It was great. There was much swimming in *hot* pools, and I do mean hot (over 30°C), with amazing Islandic mounts in the background... true delight. There was also amazing sight-seeing - the landscapes are as beautiful as New Zealand! I don't even envy Frederic anymore, and that's saying something. We climbed through some caves and up some semi-cliffs and over a river on a plank of wood (no rope-walking yet, but working on it - pee_wai must have some Elvish heritage though. With all due respect to Orly, Peewai did the whole climbing thing with much more ease) and finally saw the tallest waterfall of Island... wow. It was worth it. We also climbed up a dead volcano, very nice view there too.

I'm in awe of this country.

I also read The Princess Bride - such a riot. I adore that book. I wanna see the film again! Hopefully I'll find a cheap dvd somewhere next year. Along with the whole "The far side of the world" series, should I like the first book. Which I don't doubt I will.