Half Term Hell Nearly Over

There are roughly two days before the kids go back to school, depending on where you live.

For me that means no more early starts, other than weekends. Which in turn means more free time to actually get through some of the games and blu-rays I've got piling up, I desperately want to put some time into a major Bulletstorm and DC Universe Online session or two.

People say I must have the most stress free job in the world, or the easiest.
Being a projectionist is a fun job but it will destroy film watching in your spare time. If you want to really watch a film on day of release you had better hope your not working.. Because after that first show of the run starts, you will learn the start of the films story (checking focus) and you will learn the end of the story (making sure your in to get lights on and projector stopped).

Admittedly the job is fun. Until something goes wrong, at which point it turns into a frantic race to fix whatever (film break, sound problem, light fitting falling out of the ceiling..) before anybody notices, or get it fixed as quickly as possible to minimise complaints.

Most of the time you will find me either in the back of the screens or out front being social, I don't believe in hiding away all day. And if I hid away I would miss some classic customer moments.

By law in the UK when you hit 15 years old you pay adult prices on cinema tickets.
Last week we had Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan", a drama about a ballet dancer and her struggle to mentally prepare for a very demanding role, starring Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis. Personally I thought this film was awful, but it was quite popular none the less, It was also rated 15.
For one show a large group of friends came in and bought tickets, one girl arrived after everyone had bought tickets and tried buying a childs ticket for the performance, the look on her face as she was told it wasn't for children and as she had asked for a childs ticket we could not sell her an adult ticket was priceless. While her friends watched the film she stood in the bus shelter outside for two hours waiting for them.. Personally I think she had the better time.