A long time ago in a blog far far away...

There were blog postings aplenty, but then the forces of the evil STOMACH VIRUS put Melissa and Dave out of commission for over a week.

Their IMMUNE SYSTEMS led a rebellion against the forces of the evil virus, which was eventually displaced from their systems. Dave and Melissa quickly recovered and began planning a return to their previous state of blogging excellence.

However, all is not well in the COUNTRY OF POLAND where increasing stress at work, approaching contract deadlines, and Dave's impending departure from the country all keep the heroic duo from blogging...

Hooray! We saw Episode III! Along with about 3 billion other people apparently, or so it would seem from the sales figures I've been seeing, but we saw it!

We've discovered a very beautiful thing within the last few weeks: movies in Poland, contrary to what you might think based on the phrase "movies in Poland," aren't actually in Polish! Well, at least not the ones that anyone over the age of 5 would be interested in seeing. Fortunately, Melissa and I are both over the age of 5! Melissa is anyway... myself I'm not so sure of.

The movie I won't discuss here, mainly because I'm sure you've all seen it. For those of you that haven't seen it: I question your loyalties to the human race. Just whose side are you on anyway?

I will, however, discuss the whole "movie experience." Upon arriving at the theater we were greeted by a strange breed of human commonly know as "nerds." Or at least, I took them for nerds at first glance. Usually nerds are easily identifiable at Star Wars movies due to the fact that they are dressed as:

1. Darth Vader
   
2. Jedi
   
3. Princess Leia¹
   
4. Queen Amidala¹
   
5. Jar Jar Binks²

The individuals who greeted us were indeed dressed as A, B, and C. However, they were not actually nerds. Well, in any case, they were not definitely nerds. That question could only be answered by knowing if in fact they enjoyed being dressed the way they were³.

As we discovered, they were actually dressed up because they work for a cell phone company and said company was having a promotion in conjunction with the opening night of Star Wars. So, as you can see, my mistaking them all for nerds outright can easily be forgiven.

Aside from being confronted by a group who may or may not have been nerds, the rest of the evening was fairly uneventful. We watched Darth Vader have a lightsaber fight with some kid in the food court as we ate dinner. We also had a slight snafu with our movie time, but it was resolved fairly easily with a minimum of arm twisting, lightsaber twirling, or force choking.

All in all it was a very enjoyable evening. The only thing I regret is that my Darth Vader costume wasn't half as cool as the cell phone company guy's.

-Dave

¹If the person dressed in either of these costumes is not of the female gender you should run. Run very fast to the nearest phone and call the police so that they may come and shoot the individual and put the rest of us out of their misery.<sup>4

2</sup>See footnote 1. Better yet, anyone falling into this category: shoot them yourself. You'll be doing them a favor. Trust me, no jury will convict you.

³I'm pretty sure "Darth Vader" was actually quite the nerd. He seemed to be enjoying his role way too much to not be one.

⁴No, that's not a typo.