illuminating science

There are a few inconveniences associated with living in Australia - we can’t buy anything but books and CDs from Amazon, and even then the postage is ridiculous, we’re a long way from both America and Europe which is a bummer for travellers or for swing dancers who really want to attend some cool workshops. But all of these are outweighed on those rare occasions when movies are released, worldwide, at a definite local date and time.

Yes, I’m talking about Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. It opens on Thursday the 19th of May (which is tomorrow here in Oz!) and I’m going to the midnight screening, at 12:01am Thursday morning! It’s a little bit of a tradition around the physics department here - in the past, we rock up at 7pm so that we’re about 20th or 30th in line (I have no idea what time the true diehards get there…) then make trips to the supermarket and food court downstairs from the cinema for our food supplies. I think tonight, though, we’ll be arriving a bit later as everyone has other commitments on. The queue grows rather rapidly over the intervening time, but hopefully we’ll still get okay seats.

It should be great fun indeed - and I’ll let everyone know my opinions tomorrow!