Summer already?!

Well, it's been a whole semester since I last blogged; I dunno what happened. I used to blog so frequently, though, the year DID get a whole ton more crazy (cray?) as it progressed. Less video games, less internet-ing, less everything, really. On the plus side, I was elected VUSAC President, after an intense race against a worthy opponent. To be fair, however, I did win by a somewhat comfortable margin, so that was a little nice too. In any case, as a result of that, I am now mandated to hold office hours in the VUSAC office, so here I am. A minimum of 30 hrs a week spread out over a minimum of 4 days (wooo, Fridays and weekends off!), so not too bad. There are some other things to look forward to over the break, however, so that's fun too...time to look ahead!

McDonalds $1 drink thingy! Now that it's available again, I plan on measuring my consumption of these drinks. So far, I've only had one, but it IS the beginning of May. I have the entire rest of the summer to take advantage of this. The plan: rip the red square with the golden arches on it, and keep it in the first one, to avoid having hundreds of those cups at my place...that would just end up being kind of gross, I think, and would probably attract ants or something. In any case, that's the plan. Last year, when I worked at Jameson Bank, I probably had one a day for the entire summer. That was a matter of convenience, though, since it was in the same building, and I literally just had to take an elevator down to the food court in the basement. Now, I have to leave the Birge, lock up the office, and walk over to McDs. I dunno how much I'll end up drinking, but, I can still imagine it'll be a lot...fountain drinks are SO TASTY. It'll probably be an unhealthy amount, but still.

TCAF! Otherwise known as the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, it's being held this coming weekend at the Toronto Reference Library near Yonge and Bloor. I'm going to go see my favourite webcomic artists, namely, Christopher Hastings of Dr. McNinja, who I have literally missed every time he's come to Toronto. Along with Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content, it should be a fun time. Definitely buying some prints or something and hopefully will get them autographed!

The Avengers! It's literally TOMORROW NIGHT. Holy crap am I excited. I have literally been waiting to see this movie since Iron Man came out in 2008 and I saw the tag after the credits about the 'Avengers initative'. The crowd (which I was a part of) went nuts, and suddenly fast forward to 2012, and the movie is going to be a reality. I hear nothing but good things, AND I'm going to go see it with my awesome girlfriend, so...that's going to be pretty much nothing but awesome.

That was an appropriate segue into what I *really* wanted to talk about, i.e., the summer movies. The summer movie period is always my favourite part of the summer, because they have those high-octane movies that all the studios hope will be multi-million dollar blockbusters, and so they're all supposed to be crazy. I LOVE those movies, and so, I'm looking forward to them. Here are the ones I'm especially excited about:

The Avengers (obviously) (May 4th)

Men in Black III (May 25th)

Prometheus (June 8th)

Brave (June 22nd)

G.I.Joe: Retaliation (June 29th)

The Amazing Spider-Man (July 3rd)

The Dark Knight Rises (July 20th)

The Bourne Legacy (August 3rd)

The Campaign (August 10th)

The Expendables 2 (August 17th)

I have no doubt some of these movies will be down right terrible. In fact, I am hoping some of them will be...because that's part of the fun! Of course, I also expect that some of these movies will be awesome in every way. The Avengers, Prometheus, Brave, The Dark Knight Rises...I have so much hope that they will be amazing. For me at least, the jury is still out on the Amazing Spider-Man, though I'm definitely going to see it regardless. Really, I'm going to see all of these movies. I'm definitely going to see all the comic book ones at midnight, and maybe even Prometheus will be seen at midnight as well...that movie looks so cool, my god. As per usual, I'm going to post reviews of these movies when I see them, so...woo for that!

Anyway, time to go grab some food. Huzzah for more blogging this summer!