Report on the Premiere of StarCraft II, a View from Behind the Barricades
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P.S. I apologize for the few photos and the overall spirit of the report, but that's exactly how it was on the other side of paradise...

It was evening, and having come home from work and bumped into my lovely family, I wished for only one thing: a quiet evening with a cup of tea and some dull melodramatic movie. As you can imagine while reading this report, that idea went up in smoke. My boyfriend (and may a curse of some mummy fall upon his head… ^^) had no plans to stay home and was bouncing around the apartment, getting ready for a StarCraft II event. I had known about the event for a while: we visit the local shopping mall with alarming regularity, so we were aware of the premiere from the moment the first banners appeared. But knowing about it and going there in the evening are two different things. I had plans to tend to a freshly baked lemon pie, while my darling had plans to stomp over to the shopping center.

- Let's go! We’ll check it out, we’ll show ourselves! - my other half cheerfully insisted. - Let’s go!

- Idon'twanttogoblah-blah-blah, - I sluggishly replied with a Tibetan mantra, but the next argument made me rethink:

- Let’s go, you’ll see some blizzards, you can pester them with Diablo, - the devil casually threw in, slyly moving his beard. Sighing, I dragged myself to get dressed.

Now I need to make two lyrical digressions. I live four stops from the