Ok, so Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is done! I finished it right before my class started this morning, which worked out quite well. I noticed something, though, which I know they covered later in the series but I felt was handled inadequately in SS: Dumbledore said that Snape was protecting Harry simply to settle the score with James, who saved Snape's life. However, as anyone who has read the series knows, Snape was only protecting Harry because he loved Lily. Surely Dumbledore, who is a practiced occlums (I think I spelled that right...), would have known that it was because of Lily and would have told Harry so. Maybe not, "Harry, Snape had the hots for your mum," but instead something about them being friends and Snape feeling that he owed and wanting to honor Lily. That's all I'm saying.
Moving on, I have decided that, because all of the books I put on hold a few days ago are coming in, and also because this one happened to be in my car while Chamber of Secrets was sitting on my bookshelf at home, I am going to read Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives by Dr. Laura Schlessinger before I start CoS. I read a review about it being pretty accurate, so I figured I'd give it a try. I'm 86 pages into it, and it's basically a relationship and self esteem boot camp of sorts. It essentially says, "Stop blaming other people for your insecurities and your bad relationships. You have the power to be who or whatever you want, and no relationship or lack f self esteem can stop you from doing that." There's a heading that I quite like, which is "Not Superwoman - Just a Super Woman." I don't know if it's actually helping me with anything, but it is an interesting read.
So last night I finally convinced Nate to watch 10 Things I Hate About You (which is one of my favorites...Heath Ledger, yum, yum) with me, and as I expected, he thought it was pretty funny. He told me he doesn't dislike chick flicks, he just doesn't want to watch them because the idea that he likes them seems weird. Like everyone would know that he watched a chick flick with me. Anyway, it was nice to watch a movie I like for a change. We were going to watch The Little Mermaid (which he agreed with) first, but the video store didn't have it. It's a travesty, I tell you.
Yup, that's about it.
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