I finally saw Star Wars Episode two, the video of which was sitting on my shelf for months. It was as much of a disappointment as I had expected, having seen the reviews and now agreeing with them. Just a very weak movie, weak story, weak everything except special effects, and I am sorry but special effects neither impress me, nor make a movie for me. Oh, the other thing that bugged me about it, and caused me to wait so long to see it was that it is 2.5 hours almost. And, as I suspected, it was unnecessarily so long. Some movies like Braveheart, you don't feel that much time go by, but this movie did not need that much time and you could feel it. Oh well, no doubt I will watch episode 3 as well when it comes out and be disappointed with that as well.

This weekend went by without my plans to visit Jermuk coming to fruitation. It is quite sad, but then I came down with a bit of a cold, so it is probably for the best. It is so strange for me still to live in a place where this "winter" dominates your life for 5 months and keeps you from travelling... so you feel this impending doom, if you don't travel now, in a few weeks you have lost your opportunity. Of course I am exagerating a bit, you can always travel in the snow, but it sure makes hiking and driving much more difficult.