Thursday 26th August

Today at work is an avalanche of bollocks and I'm glad to be heading home – especially as I'm now on holiday again until Tuesday – but annoyingly last night's overtime homework has produced more for tonight. I need to get it out of the way quick too, as K has booked an impromptu visit to cinema to see Scott Pilgrim vs the World, a film we've both been looking forward to with interest.

Following up on last night's work involves logging into my work computer via remote desktop – something I've never done before, what with it being a bit tricky to do on a Mac and me never, ever actually wanting to do any work at home – but now I have the PC-based laptop around the place it is, apparently, quite simple to do. Following our IT guy's instructions, I log into my work computer, which is a somewhat surreal experience. Opening my work email and our special, 80s-style bespoke database is a weird thing to be doing at home – and it freaks me out slightly to think of my mouse cursor moving around the screen and windows opening and closing on my computer in a closed-up, dark office. After fiddling with more bastard Excel documents for a while, I get started on finishing up last night's work, which goes much quicker (I am rushing) and is done and dusted by the time K gets back.

I make us a quick dinner and we head out into the miserable rain, up the road to the Cineworld in Wood Green. We collect our tickets and head into the rather nice 'Delux' screen, which involves massive reclining chairs and tons of legroom.

I'm not sure what to expect of Scott Pilgrim. I know enough about the premise of it based on the trailers – and it's been hyped up by the sort of people who usually follow Edgar Wright projects (as I do). I've never seen the comic though, and I suppose I'm half-expecting another Kick Ass, albeit a 12A rated version. It's easy to go into these indie comic adaptations wary – as it's easy for them to end up as slick, panel-by-panel recreations that have very little of their own substance or any directorial input. Scott Pilgrim, on the other hand, seems every inch an Edgar Wright creation. It is slick, and does feature a lot of directorial tricks and gags – the best ones involving video game references (why has no one ever done a nerd film where bad guys explode into coins before?! It's a brilliant idea – and brilliantly realised here) and the fact that each new character has their own set of them is a nice touch too. Michael Cera is very much the usual Michael Cera character and some of the jokes are a bit clunky, but it's a very fun film to watch and a treat visually – if not the riotous, noisy, sweary funfair-ride that Kick Ass is.