So I ended up crawling into bed last night with Exit Through the Gift Shop playing on my laptop thinking that it would help put me to sleep. It sucked me in deep instead, and kept me up till it's end. For a documentary I have to state that it was one of the more enjoyable ones that I've watched in a long, long time. To be fair though... the majority of the documentaries that I watch tend to be of the type that are designed to be more vitriolic in nature than they are enjoyable. Regardless... I dig that a documentary on street art can simultaneously bring some much deserved legitimacy to what many would try to pass off as simple "graffiti", all while pointing out the subtle flaws in the way that our society is structured. To me... that's one of the main points that I think that Banksy is trying to make with this film. Creating art is both a means and an end in and of itself to the person that makes it. It doesn't matter whether you are a street artist or some eccentric Frenchman that is obsessed with filming everything because his mother's looming death was hidden from him as a child. All of the nonsense that gets attached to art given that even something as non-commercial as street art eventually ends up being a product that people will one way or another try to make money off of  is so ridiculous that it crosses the boundary separating the absurd from the humorous. Who knows exactly what Banksy was going for in making this film, but if that was one of the points he was trying to make he hit the nail on the head in my opinion. Regardless... it's a fun film that anyone who can appreciate a different perspective on our society and the different characters that exist and in some cases thrive within it should enjoy. If you are reading this and haven't seen it... I definitely recommend it if you have some free time to kill. I especially recommend it if you have any kind of anthropologist, artist, comedian or fight-the-man underground rebel dimension to your personality.

So yeah... I ended up staying awake later into the night that I had planned. Fortunately I didn't have any hard times early in the morning that I absolutely had to get out of bed for in the morning. A fact that my body took full advantage of given that it had me subconsciously playing the snooze button game until 1000 this morning. Once I got up and out of bed I had a pretty productive day. Got to talk to Dr. Stith over the phone, and got the answer that I was hoping to hear about his class being a natural progression from general biology I and II. So after a small road bump in there being a hold on my student account at UC Denver stemming from some pell grant that makes no sense to me to put a hold on someone's account over I was able to swap out Bio 3124 with Bio 3611. Kind of sucks that I've already missed two lecture periods because of the an illogical way of numbering classes, but I'm confident that I'll be able to catch up quickly with the rest of the class.

Didn't have much going on after that though as far as things that needed to get done at the Veterans' Office of Student Services was concerned given that we knocked out all of the student certifications yesterday so it ended up being a nice chill day in the office. Got to relax a bit and start to get to know the other students that I'll be working with for at least this semester, as well as the big boss man himself, Cameron Cook. Even got to make some rounds with him and Justin Mayhall, Veteran Student Organization President, as they met with people running the show over in the Tivoli as far as who gets to have offices over there. With there now being 700 or so veterans taking classes at UC Denver and allegedly around 7-8 million dollars being pumped into the school's coffers because of us Cameron wants to get out of the tiny 400 square feet office that we are working out of right now and into a space that is more deserving of us being the largest student organization on campus. As of right now it seems like we are going to probably going to end up in the tunnel-shaped spaces on the bottom floor of the brewery, which would be a fun area to design our office around if it ends up turning out that way.

After work I headed back home and crashed out on my bed for a bit while watching the UFC weigh ins for tomorrow's card in Rio de Janeiro. Can't wait to see what the crowd is going to be like come tomorrow evening given that the sons Brazil pretty much gave birth to modern day mixed martial arts. That and the baddest man on the planet, Anderson Silva, is going to be not only doing his thing in his homeland for the first time ever in the UFC, but he'll be doing so in a fight that will allow him to avenge one of the few blemishes on his professional record that came from his being disqualified because of silly rule. We'll see how it plays out, but his opponent, Yushin Okami, has a style that in theory should test Anderson in the same way that Chael Sonnen did by taking him down and grinding his way towards what would have likely been a decision victory.

Anyway... I've got a token 0800 chemistry lab to go to in the morning so it's time to unplug.

LL&P.