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( SPOILER ALERT: SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE )
I think that should just about cover things for now. I'll be seeing it again with my mum after ASP is over, so I'll probably notice even more things then.
- Mood:
cheerful
Also, I've realized that the Order of the Phoenix movie is definite snark bait, especially when Harry decides to try out his Squall Leonhart impersonation and is all "THE MORE YOU CARE ABOUT, THE MORE YOU LOSE!" & maybe I was just in a double-entendre mood, but I managed to find a lot of them (mostly in dialogue that would seem extremely dirty out of context, e.g. Dumbledore's secret weapon and naughty children deserve to be punished). Then again, most of Deathly Hallows is a big long double-entendre with all the talk about wands, and there is also the lovely gem of a line from Half-Blood Prince that is displayed in my icon. (There's also the Harry/Draco implications: "Harry, however, had never been less interested in Quidditch. He was instead finding himself becoming rapidly obsessed with Draco Malfoy." HO YAY FTW.)
Lost premiere night was EPIC. It was two hours of EPIC EPICNESS. I'm not going to talk about it here, but I do assure you that it was awesome. My mum and I have been theorizing like mad... because believe me, there were lots of things to be theorized. Also, I'm totally a Sawyer/Juliet shipper right now, even though I think Kate and Sawyer should eventually end up together. There were also some really good quotes from the episodes; one of my favorites is "Why is there a dead Pakistani on my couch?" I wish I could use them as subject lines, but I have a whole bunch of quotes from a Final Fantasy X fanfic that I've been reading that I want to use up first.
Oh! I just remembered a conversation last week involving literal laser tag that made me laugh, but not too loudly because no one present knows the secret meaning behind laser tag. Said comment went something like, "No, it's totally innocent. We just play laser tag and stuff." HA HA HA HA.
- Mood:
bouncy
Also, GRYFFINDOR TOTALLY WINS at Harry Potter Winterterm 1. We have a freshman in our group who apparently knows the whole Order of the Phoenix movie word-for-word. See, I'm not that bad. (Though I do think I get my ability for quoting things from my mum, because we'll be sitting together watching an episode of Lost, and we'll both be saying some of the lines before they happen. But only the really good lines, like "Jesus Christ is not a weapon" and "So I guess I'm out of the book club" and "You just killed everyone on that boat!" "So?" Lost has a lot of hilarious lines, some of them mainly because of context.
And speaking of Lost... ZOMG SPAZZFLAIL NEW EPISODES TOMORRO
... Damn it, I'm trying not to include so much fandom/geek talk here anymore.
- Mood: excited
^^ Which is Blind Idiot Translation for "May the force be with you."
I've been downloading The Shoebox Project for my re-reading purposes, because I often forget how brilliant it is, so now I'll have its brilliance on my computer ALL THE TIME. D'you know what's even more brilliant? Having Adobe Reader read it aloud to me. It's hilarious to hear it read in Computer Voice, which tends to put stress on weird words and completely screw up the pronunciation of "Remus." Though while I was reading a bit of it this morning I suddenly became very depressed because I remembered the fate of the Mauraders in the thing called Canon: James is murdered by Voldemort, Sirius spends 12 years in Azkaban for a crime he didn't commit, Peter turns traitor and Death Eater, and Remus is left alone to be werewolf-ish. Remus has actually got it the best out of the four of them, actually, except for his FRIGGIN OFFSCREEN DEATH in Deathly Hallows. (And the fact that he's a complete ass for most of the book.) But I've also decided that Remus/Sirius is my second OTP (behind Penelope/Desmond, of course), and part of me is actually convinced that they had a Secret But Canonical Homosexual Relationship that JKR just doesn't tell us about. Because they're such an awesome pairing. SBP!Remus is awesome, with his jumpers and chocolate and innate Remus-ness that I can't help but love.
Oh, and the downstairs VCR hates me. All I wanted to do was rewind a tape, and all of a sudden it's all in Spanish and I'm all, "NON CUPIO! LOQUOR LINGUAM LATINAM! N
And speaking of Lost, here's two "Daily Dose of Lost"-esque things that I've wanted to do for a while. Brought to you by
- Mood: cheerful
So the layout's working now, except the alignment's not quite right, but I think it's supposed to be that way. Oh well.
Now? On to my deep analysis crap that I wrote last night that probably nobody cares about
So I'm fairly certain that some aspects of "Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories" were borrowed from "Final Fantasy VII..
... And between this and the work I'm doing on my current writing project with Keira and her memory that was the target of Eltanin's experiments in memory-altering, I'm really getting sick of the word "memory."
I've decided that "The Drugs Don't Work" by the Verve could be Future!Jack's theme song on Lost...
Today's also the one-year anniversary of the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I'm going to celebrate by displaying three of JKR's ridiculously written sentences from HP&DH. First we have "Water filled Harry's eyes and mouth: He could not see or breathe: Then, with an awful lurch, the cart flipped over and they were all thrown out of it." There are a couple of things wrong with this. First, although I don't think it's exactly incorrect, I hate her habit in her later books of connecting sentences together with colons, especially because she capitalizes the first letter of the second sentence, which I'm pretty sure is incorrect. Secondly, why the hell does she connect THREE sentences in this way? Especially when two of them are rather short and choppy? Why couldn't she have just said, "Water filled Harry's eyes and mouth, and he could not see or breathe. Then, with an awful lurch, the cart flipped over and they were all thrown out of it." It would have eliminated a lot of unnecessary colons. Then she later decides to combine three sentences again: "He spotted Ginny two tables away; she was sitting with her head on her mother's shoulder: There would be time to talk later, hours and days and maybe years in which to talk." She actually used a semi-colon this time, but then she has to ruin it by tacking on another sentence, connected by a colon. Bad JKR, bad! The third sentence includes more absurd colon usage: "One shivering second of silence, the shock of the moment suspended: and then the tumult broke around Harry as the screams and the cheers and the roars of the watchers rent the air." Yes, I know that Voldemort's just been defeated, so maybe she should be granted a bit of creative grammatical license to convey the Drama (which is why I won't comment on all the "and's"), but that colon should NOT be there. A simple comma would have sufficed, damn it.
Despite all of JKR's failures with HP&DH, however, there are still some redeeming moments.
- "NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!" (Molly Weasley FTW!)
- Hero!Neville cutting off Nagini's head and all that.
- The whole chapter "The Prince's Tale." I cannot tell you how much I adore that chapter.
- Remus and Tonks getting married and having a baby. Of course, that was pretty much ruined when they got KILLED OFF ;_; I don't think I've ever been angrier about a character death (or two characters' deaths, in this case).
Oh, and I have to say that the chapter when Harry's in between life and death on the Farplane in King's Cross, I couldn't help but think of a badfic that I read (well, actually, I just read the sporked version over at deleterius) about Female!Harry stuck on Luna's Astral Plane of Love where s/he experienced constant orgasms (yes, that did scare me away from the fic). My FFX brain also immediately thought "ZOMG IT'S UNSENT!HARRY!" Because, you know, he was caught between life and death...
Okay, analysis!brain has been shut off. It needs to be put to use on The Scarlet Letter now.
- Mood:
geeky
I just did this over on BtN and thought I would share (I recall someone posting something similar a while ago, I think):
Dear Sinister Super Six,
I don't really know how to tell you this, but I dislike your eyelashes. I think I realized it when your dog humped my leg at the mental hospital and I saw you sit on my father.
I'm sure you're high enough to understand that there is no solution to you being a dumbass.
I'm returning your old New Kids on the Block blanket to you, but I'll keep your photo with a moustache drawn on it as a memory.
You should also know that I get sick when I look at your feet and the apartment building is on fire.
Good luck in jail,
Allison
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It's one of those fill-in-the-blank letter things. You can find the form here because I'm too lazy to repost it. (just scroll down to the bolded questions.)
Seriously, this coupled with the badfic I'm reading over at
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deleterius makes me want to remove my brain with a spork because of all the crazyness. (Note: don't follow the link unless you're prepared to hear people making fun of things such as Eunuch!Snape and Gender-Swapped!Harry (and most other characters too). And what's worse is that the author of the latter fic refers to Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville, Ginny, and Luna as the "Ministry Six," which only reminds me of the Oceanic Six, which makes my Lost brain go ASPLODE.
- Mood:
devious
I'm re-reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows right now and have found delight in the fact that one of the Latin spells seems to be incorrect. The spell is Homenum revelio, described by Hermione as a spell to reveal human presence. The problem? "Homenum" is an incorrect declension of homo, meaning human; it should be "hominem," since it's a singular, accusative, third-declension noun. So not only is the ending wrong, the base is wrong as well. "Revelio" is also incorrect; the correct verb should be "revelo," meaning "I uncover." So either JKR really messed up on her Latin or it was deliberately supposed to be wrong. (At least it's not as bad as some of those self-made spells used by fanfiction authors; one particular horrible one I've come across is Reverso mio sexio. The correct Latin would be Inverto meum sexum, darling, and why the hell do wizards need a spell to change their genders? Why can't they do it Cloud-style and run around gathering various items of "sexy" womanly attire?) /Latin geek, with a bit of "Final Fantasy VII" geek thrown in at the end
Speaking of "Final Fantasy VII," I've obtained a much better version of the game script, which I've been reading and quite enjoying. Once I've exhausted being positively badass at "Final Fantasy X" (my Yuna is pretty much pwnage, which is spelled S-A-Y-I-D J-A-R-R-A-H, because she can cause 50,000-80,000 damage per turn with her black/holy magic, knows pretty much every white magic spell in the game, can summon aeons such as Anima, who is pretty much victory in the form of a butt-ugly fish-mummy thing; can cause 10,000-20,000 damage per turn with physical attacks, AND has fairly high defense and evasion to boot!), I think I'd really like to get my grubby little hands on "Final Fantasy VII" because it seems like it will suck in my soul once I stop laughing at its inevitably bad graphics (though apparently they're extremely good for a game released in 1997). There are a few sketchy parts in it, though (like when Aerith and Cloud have to go into sketchy prostitute land to save Tifa - with Cloud dressed up as a girl!), and then of course there's Cid (the same Cid from the "Kingdom Hearts" games) who just loves his colorful expletives. But it also has Sephiroth, who's a frickin' lunatic and has the best ending battle theme song EVER (VENI, VENI, VENIAS! NE ME MORI FACIAS!) which inevitably came into my head whenever I was conjugating "venio" or any io or fourth conjucation subjunctive in Latin this year. And there's also a character named Elena in it, though I swear that I didn't name my character Elena after her. It's just one of those happy coincidences.
Well, this is interesting. I was just looking up Imperio in my Latin dictionary and there is no Latin word "imperio." The closest is "imperito," meaning "I command." Innnnnteresting. I wonder how many other Harry Potter spells are incorrectly Latin (barring Avada Kedavra, which wasn't Latin to begin with, I believe). Well, at least I know that Tergeo, Crucio, Expulso and Accio are correct, since I've already looked those up.
And, not meaning to mock Harry Potter further, but here are some things that I've found amusing so far in HP&DH (this will likely be an ongoing list featured in my next few entries):
Okay, so lj-cut has officially decided to hate my bulleted lists so let's just see how this turns out. Fixed. Yay!
- Mood:
amused
Deathly Hallows to be made as two movies
Should be interesting, yeah? Though I wonder what they'll call the second half - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows II? Also, this means that I will have new Harry Potter movies until the end of my freshman year of college. That's a strange thing to think about :/
At least now we know that they won't need to leave too much out. Of course, some plot elements of DH spring from stuff that was left out of some of the movies to begin with, so I hope they can handle that without things seeming deus ex machina-like.
[EDIT: Almost forgot - happy real birthday, Summer!]
- Mood:
intrigued
I am strongly fighting the urge to (re)name a character Aurin. The problem? It's pronounced the same and is only one letter off from Auron (FFX/KHII character). And I already have enough names that are coincidentially similar to KH/FF names. (Okay, so maybe Axelle was intentional. But Leon and Elena weren't.) I just think adding another (albeit fairly minor) character whose name happens to be related to KH/FF would be a little too much. But Aurin is so SHINY. *flail!*
Also? Today I came up with three comparisons-of-school-related-things-to-tjungle wild moors). So if Hareton ended up killing his father (especially with harmful gases!), I would not be surprised at all. Also, I'm just waiting for one character (I'm thinking Heathcliff) to declare to a love interest, "Because you're MINE." It just seems like something that would happen. (And would be another link to Lost, whee!)
My second conclusion is that Jesus = Darth Plagueis. In Revenge of the Sith, Palpatine tells Anakin the legend of Darth Plagueis the Wise, and says how, "It's ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself." In the gospels of Matthew and Mark, when Jesus is being crucified, the chief priests mock him by saying, "He saves others; he cannot save himself." However, if Jesus = Darth Plagueis that would mean that Peter = Palpatine, and that wouldn't really work, yeah? But still.
I've had a strong desire to read the chapter in Deathly Hallows entitled "The Prince's Tale" lately. That chapter is one of my favorites, what with its portrayal of Snape as a Misunderstood Boy Who Only Wants the Love of Lily Evans. It makes me look at him in a whole different way, because hark! there is goodness in him!
- Mood: nerdy
It's very unsettling to just be innocently walking down the hallway with "One-Winged Angel" blasting in your head. I mean, you're just walking and in your head all you can hear is "VENI, VENI, VENIAS, NE ME MORI FACIAS" in a really creepy deep voice. It makes for quite an ominous experience.
Last night I stepped further into the world of geekdom by beginning to create a conlang (constructed language). I'm having a lot of fun with it because languages are so very fun. I haven't come up with a name for it yet, but it is awesome. Its grammar and stuff somewhat resembles Latin (but not really - there aren't any cases, for example; there is just one ending for subjects, one for objects in general, and another for possessive, and there is also no imperfect tense). I've still got a bunch to do, though, because when you think about it there are a lot of grammar rules out there and forms of words to make.
Also, on Saturday night, or early Sunday morning, rather, I wrote almost all of chapter ten of "The Power of Light." It was very exciting because now I'm almost done with that chapter: all I've got to do is write a lead-in to when Sari is introduced, introduce her, and then that chapter's done. Then, however, I've got to get back to chapter nine. But then after that things start to get exciting, once Keira gets to Arx Chalybs and reunites with Talia. It's going to be hard to write those scenes without Talia quoting Axel. ("You really do remember me this time? I'm so FLATTERED.") Oh, and then I get to write the scene in which Sari and Perrin first meet, which is going to be hard to write without making any "ZOMG THEY'RE GOING TO GET MARRIED IN FIVE YEARS!" squeals.
So it's really amusing to read Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban when you've been reading a lot of "The Shoebox Project." When Harry first got the Maurader's Map, all I could think of was the scenes surrounding the map-making in "The Shoebox Project." (Of course, it's really interesting reading the book when you know that Sirius isn't a criminal and that Wormtail is Scabbers and is the real traitor. And that Snape is/was in love with Lily. I always forget about that, no matter how awesome it is.)
So last night I was trying to fall asleep (stupid brain thinks that I shouldn't be asleep at 10:00), and so I turned on the radio thinking that no interesting songs will come on so I can fall asleep. Of course, this was not the case, and what should come on but "500 Miles" by the Proclaimers. Now, I've always found that song amusing because it reminds me of Tom, but thanks to How I Met Your Mother, there is even more amusement to be found in it. And it's really hard to sleep when you're Deeply Amused. (Also? How I Met Your Mother has caused me to be extremely amused at the thought of the word "moist." Go on, say it. It'll make me giggle.)
Oh, and in the car on the way home from school today I came up with what I'm getting Summer for her birthday. It's going to be LEGENDARY.
- Mood: amused
- Music:"Tifa's Theme" - Final Fantasy VII soundtrack
I got my "Polly's Penguin Christmas" DVD today. It turned out pretty good/well, so I'm bringing it to Summer's house for New Year's. It's only 1 hour and 8 minutes long, too, so it won't take a long time like a recital DVD would.
I finished watching Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End yesterday. I'd forgotten how badass Elizabeth is in that movie. And it's not badass in a good way. Lyra is badass in a good way. Elizabeth is badass in a "Look at me, I'd be a guy if it weren't for my breasts!" way. And also? I'd like to know what she was doing wearing Will's boot right before he left to his Flying Dutchman business. Are pirate boots good sex toys, or something? Also, I was thinking right after Will gave her his heart-in-a-chest how that would be such a great conversation piece: "Nope, my husband's not home; he's busy ferrying souls to the land of the dead. But I can show you his heart!" Or to her son (William Turner III?): "Daddy's not going to be home for another 5 or so years. Here's his heart, though!"
So right now I'm working on watching Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I've gotten lots of icon inspiration (providing I can find the images I need). That movie is chock full of Harry using the "My parents are dead, so pity me!" and "You don't understand the depths of my pain!" cards. Also, Dumbledore is incredibly mean. He's not all jolly and eccentric like he's supposed to be. I mean, right after he tells Trelawney that she can stay at Hogwarts, he turns to the students and says (rather harshly) something to the effect of "Get back to your studying!" The real Dumbledore wouldn't do that. Ah, well. As the saying goes: "Snape didn't kill Dumbledore; Michael Gambon did."
Which reminds me: I had a dream about the HBP movie last night. I dreamt that it was only rated PG and had a lot of ridiculous, stupid humor in it. (I believe there was one part where Dumbledore was talking about how he was sexy or calling somebody else sexy during part of the scene when they're going into the cave to get the Horcrux.)
I have a quote of the day today, though I can't remember if I've used it or not.
Quote of the Day:
"Welcome to the wonderful world of not knowing what the hell's going on."
--Kate, from an episode of Lost
- Location:shoving a spear down a dragon's throat
- Mood: amused
so i had a most interesting morning this morning. first, i was having a dream that involved orlando bloom, keira knightley, and some other attractive actor with a british accent (i think it was either ewan mcgregor or that guy from across the universe). the premise of the dream had something to do with the punic wars, i think (or some other kind of random ancient war; it would most likely be the punic wars, though, because we've been studying them in western civ). anyway, in the dream it was the end of the battle and the three attractive accented actors were on a sinking wooden boat, and there was one guy from one side (of the people fighting), and then the other guy and keira knightley were from the other side of the war. (i don't remember which guy was on which side, so we'll just call them guy 1 and guy 2.) so guy 2 (who's on the opposite side from keira knightley), really has a crush on her but doesn't want to be involved with the enemy. but guy 1 (who's on the same side as her) starts kissing her first, but she isn't happy about it. so guy 2 says something like "wait, that's wrong" and then he pulls guy 1 away and starts kissing her. and she likes this, so she and guy 2 are just kind of floating in the water (because by now the little wooden boat has practically sunk) for a while and making out. so it's after this little escapade that i wake up to my alarm. usually i wake up to my ipod, but this time it was the beeper alarm, but for some reason i don't think anything of it. but then i realize that my clock isn't lit up, so i'm just like, "huh?" and then i think, "hmm... maybe the power has randomly gone out." so i try to turn on my light, which doesn't work. so yup, the power's randomly decided to go out. then i realize that this completely sucks because i have to take a shower. and i can't go to school dirty of course. so i'm just lying there with a flashlight that's practically dead, completely pissed off and thinking about how much i hate my life. this happens for about 10 minutes. then the power comes on again, so i get up and do a Dance of Joy, and then get in the shower. as my mom said to me, "the power gods must have been looking fondly upon you."
also, kirjava is on her way to being completely healed! she's been playing dvds for a couple weeks now with no fuss whatsoever, and today she managed to read the cd of pictures from sarah's camp! so now i have lots of
...finally, is it a wee bit pathetic that when we were talking about the downfall of the roman republic in western civ today, i was thinking of the republic in star wars the whole time? i also find ways to compare macbeth to the lion king in english class. (and matt drew me a lady macbeth muffin! squee!)
i think i've done this quote of the day within the past few months, but it's the only one i can think of at the moment.
Quote of the Day:
"I didn't realize it was Happy Hopping Moron Day."
--Squidward, from an episode of Spongebob Squarepants
- Location:dancing to loading zone announcements
- Mood: amused
- Music:"guardando nel buio" : kingdom hearts soundtrack
Okay, so my mom thinks that I should now be the designated planner for Mugglefest because Shaylagh's parent(s) is/are not driving. The problem is that I hate planning. SO, I need to find out these things from people as soon as possible so I don't have to get on the -gasp- FELLYTONE:
1) Isabella, is one or more of your parents going, and if not, do you need a ride?
2) Is Sarah going?
I hate being responsible for planning. Please help?
In other news, I had a dream last night that involved Shaylagh, Clarisse, Mitchell, and me going to Water Country (except it didn't quite look like Water Country, but that's beside the point). Anyway, we were all floating around in the Adventure River when all of a sudden Clarisse and I look over and there's Shaylagh and Mitchell snogging. So Clarisse gets all angry and I say, "Well, maybe if we go ride Geronimo a bunch of times in a row, you'll forget about it." So we go to do that, except then there's a thunderstorm and they close all the rides. There were other random parts to the dream too, but I don't remember them.
Last night in drivers ed we were reading from the Maine Drivers Handbook thingy, and I found a misplaced comma AND " its'. " Is is just me, or is " its' " not a word? AND then in one of these mini-video driver safety commercial type things that we watched, "your" was used instead of "you're." Making fun of improper grammar is my main source of entertainment in that class.
4 MORE DAYS UNTIL DH!!!!!! (EEPU) Fwee!
[EDIT: It's supposed to rain on Friday. My mom's becoming rather gripe-y.]
"Oh," said Ron, his smile fading slightly. "Are you that bad at kissing?"
"Dunno," said Harry, who hadn't considered this, and immediately felt rather worried. "Maybe I am."
"Of course you're not," said Hermione absently, still scribbling away at her letter.
"How do you know?" said Ron in a sharp voice.
--from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Location:skulking around in Knockturn Alley
- Mood:
pensive
And speaking of squee, here is a scene that makes me go squee that I started writing a while ago and just put the finishing touches on last night. It's not from The Power of Light; it will probably be in the third book of my series (the new third book--the old third book is now the second).
Hehehe. It contains a bit of Angsty!Keira, but she's still a teenager at this point, so I guess it's okay. And heck, she just found out that her father was not a nice man and that she indirectly killed him. She has a bit of a right to be angsty.
Quote of the Day:
"Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean everyone else does."
--Hermione, from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (book version)
- Location:skipping through the Department of Mysteries
- Mood:
squee-y
I'm home from San Antonio.
And now I'm off to find the lyrics to "When Love and Hate Collide." -is currently loving that song- I listened to it around 6 or 7 times today on the drive home from the airport.
Oh, and I was just typing my quote of the day and remembered that yesterday while watching GOF that the new Dumbledore reminds me of Barbossa for some reason. I hate the new Dumblefore. He's mean.
Quote of the Day:
"I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request. Means 'no.'"
--Barbossa, from Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- Location:HOME
- Mood:
tired
Happy 7/7/07!
And happy birthday to Bella a day early!
I'm going to be home tomorrow, most likely in the evening even though our flight leaves tomorrow morning, but there's layovers and an hour time difference. (And no, Shaylagh, Texas is not on our side of the country.)
So as many of us as possible have to get together to see OotP on Wednesday. I just saw a "First Look" preview thing on HBO (hahaha I almost typed HBP there). And did you know that HBO stands for Home Box Office? I didn't! Anyway, the movie looks pretty darn awesome, even though there's going to be a lot of things taken out, etc. The problem is that if we do see it on Wednesday, I have driver's ed in the evening (from 5:30 to 8:30 I believe) so we would have to see it before then. We also have to organize our DH party so we can all get the book together at the midnight party. Then I think we should all go back to someone's house and we can all read it, but that could be potentially problematic ("What part are you on?" "Oh, [insert character here] just died!" "ZOMG NO I HAVEN'T GOTTEN TO THAT PART YET!") So maybe we can just go back to our individual houses and read it all night and then talk about it after we're all done. Sometime before the book comes out I'll be posting my list of predictions for DH, so you all can agree or disagree with me.
Yesterday I went to a water park and saw a fair amount of good looking boys/young men. I caught a glimpse of a lifeguard who looked a bit like Leonardo Dicaprio. It was pretty awesome. And then there were some tubing rides in which I got caught in whirlpools. It was fairly humerous watching me trying to get out.
Also, Wednesday morning in the shower I basically planned out my entire series. Well, re-planned it out, because I've had to change a lot of things because of things that I've taken out (like a great deal of Sari's speshalness). It's still 5 books long, but I just swapped things around a little. I have to kill off one more character than I intended so I can make things work, but it's no huge loss.
Okay, so I think that's enough for this entry. If any of you guys want to get together this week, I have dance classes on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings and driver's ed Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday nights, but other than that, I'm free.
Quote of the Day:
"Can Santa, the Holiday Armadillo and I have a conversation in the kitchen? Wow, that's a sentence I never thought I'd say."
--Monica, from a nepisode of Friends
- Location:the seventh largest city in the USa
- Mood:
weird
We watched some more of that weird modernized version of Romeo and Juliet in English today. But it had Sexy!Romeo, and the person who played Mercutio is the same guy who played Michael on Lost (and so it was kinda weird not having him yell "WAAAAAAAAAAALT!" all the time, because basically all Michael ever did was build a raft, yell his son's name, and kill a couple people). But I was very happy because after Romeo killed Tybalt, there was a clap of thunder and it started raining. I was all "ZOMG!" because in my latest draft of my Sari-killing-Siro scene (which I don't think I've revised since I went to Hawaii a year and a half ago) has a clap of thunder and rain right after Sari kills Siro.
I had some deja-vu today while reading OotP. I was reading the part when Harry is all angry at Bellatrix for killing Sirius and Bella is all "GIVE ME THE PROPHECY OR DIE!!" and then Bella is all "NO MASTER, DON'T PUNISH ME!" and Harry is all "Don't waste your breath. Voldemort can't hear you from here," and then he hears Voldemort say in a high, cold voice, "Can't I, Potter?" And so I was thinking, yeah that's pretty much one of the creepiest parts in the whole book and then I was like, "whoa, I've thought that before," and then I realized that a week or so ago I read that part and thought that. Yeah. I'm wicked cool.
I'm afraid for my geography grade because I put very little effort into the project and so now Mrs. Duprat will probably be all "ZOMG LAZINESS NO A FOR YOU!" And I have a geography test tomorrow during technology. Ick. That's wasting one good day of learning how to do computer crap.
I really need to upload a couple more quote-y userpics, as amusing as my Harry Potter one is.
Quote of the Day:
"O, I am Fortune's fool!"
--Romeo, from Romeo & Juliet
- Location:coming out of a closet (hehe)
So did y'all hear the title of the 7th Harry Potter book? "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"... Sounds pretty interesting. Any book with "death" in the title sounds fun (hahaha). But there was an interesting thing on Mugglenet: there was a part in OOTP where there was a smashed prophecy that said, "at the solstice will coem a new... and none will come after..." and the last title of the last HP book was released on the winter solstice... yeah, that was pretty cool.
So it seems that as I'm getting older, Christmas seems to come faster. I mean, it used to be that every day I'd be so excited to put the little ornament on the little wall hanging that has a felt ornament for every day of December to put on a felt tree. But now... I don't know. It's just hard to believe that it's "Christmas Eve Eve." And I wish it was snowing instead of raining. It's sad how people lose Christmas spirit as they get older =( Maybe I need to go wrap some presents or something.
I realized that as cheesy as Star Wars Attack of the Clones is, there is one heck of a lot of foreshadowing in it. Some of my favorite bits are when Count Dooku takes the plans of the Death Star to give to Darth Sidious and when Anakin is being all angsty and says to Padme "One day I will be the most powerful Jedi ever! I will even learn how to stop people from dying." But the best part is when Anakin and Padme are at the farm place on Tatooine and R2 comes over and Anakin and Padme are like, "What are you doing here?" and 3PO says, "He seems to be carrying a message from an Obi-Wan Kenobi." (It's foreshadowing because in A New Hope R2 is also carrying a message from Obi-Wan and C-3PO relays the information to Luke). There's also when Obi-Wan camoflauges himself on an asteroid, and in Empire Strikes Back, Han camoflauges the Millennium Falcon on a Star Destroyer (and Boba Fett knows of this ploy... Hmm...)
Yes, I /know/ I'm a geek. Get over it.
Quote of the Day:
"Life seems so much simpler when you're fixing things."
--Anakin, from Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
- Location:in Santa's bag
- Mood: weird
Two updates in one day! Isn't my LJ lucky?
I just took this quiz on Quizilla and I found my results extremely funny:
YOUR REPUTATION AT HOGWARTS (for girls)
Gryffindor
Harry: I hate her. thats it. shes really beautiful girl, but shes in slytherin.
Ron: Shes so damn beautiful... but i never talked to her. shes dracos girl, quess.
Hermione: Bitch, slytherins princess.
Fred & George: Shes hot!! but yeah, shes also a slytherin and a bit bitchy..
Oliver: she is goodlooking, but i have no interest to her.. she is mean and doesnt know allmost anything about quidditch!
Hufflepuff:
Cedric: I dont know her, actually. She is too mean for my taste, a player girl.
Ravenclaw:
Cho:She is pretty but evil. i dont like her at all.
Slytherin:
Draco: Im in love with her. I know it sounds pretty weird, but i am.. She is just so like me, and my father likes her too.
Pansy: DONT TALK ABOUT HER. THAT BITCH STOLE MY DRAKIE!!
Blaise: She is pretty and hot, but shes dracos now. I was late, i wanted to ask her out too.
Teachers:
Dumbledore: I tried to tell her once, thats she is making a wrong choice but she didnt listen. She is evil and i am really afraid, that one day she is going to be a deatheater.
McGonagall: She is smart, but she uses it wrong.
Snape: she is like a daughter to me. I hope she marries draco when shes older. She knows how to use beautiness and smartness, to get what she wants.
Yeah, the somewhat lack of punctuation sickens me. But I think that's so funny.
- Location:Still sitting in a chair.
- Mood: amused
