I'm Eating French Fries for Dinner

BAH! My classes start tomorrow! I'm excited, but also kinda surprised that it snuck up so quickly. It feels like just a few days ago that I was complaining about my roommates and staring down a 4 month vacation. Whew! But at least now I'll have something new to keep me occupied.

I'm a little disappointed in my lack of progress with the HP series. I'm still working on HBP, but I'm planning on finishing it tonight as soon as I clean my room and get everything ready for tomorrow. I'm at the part just after Harry has entered Slughorn's real memory. I think I can get through a hundred pages in one evening.

So yesterday I visited Melissa, who is living up here now, and we watched Miss Congeniality. It's such a good movie, although whenever I watch movies with my sisters, we are never short on laughs. I'm debating also watching Across the Universe while I clean my room and get organized tonight. I suppose we'll see.

T-Minus Nine Days Til Classes Start

So I have a fairly good sized chunk of HBP done so far (although I'm not yet halfway through it). When I read this book for the first time, I didn't like how the first 2 chapters were side stories versus being about Harry himself, but this time, I thought about it and it actually makes sense. I liked the first chapter, which is reminiscent of the first chapter of GoF in the sense that it at first seems totally unrelated but then turns out to be a perfect intro to the book. I think it was a good way of showing how the Muggle population was affected by Voldy's return and also introducing the idea of Fudge not being Minister. The 2nd chapter, where Snape and Narcissa make the Unbreakable Vow, obviously creates situational irony since we know that Snape is obviously a double agent (although we really don't know anything since Snape is a triple or perhaps quadruple agent). Anyway, now that I'm used to it, I don't mind the fact that the first 2 chapters are seemingly unrelated.

Nate and I watched The Black Dahlia last night. I had wanted to see it for the longest time after first hearing of the actual murder case, but to be honest, the movie wasn't too good. Ok, well, that's not really true. It was a good movie, but it wasn't what I was expecting and I wish that they would have done it differently, like focusing more on the actual murder instead of the many sex partners of the main character, who was an investigator. The actual case is very frightening and horrible, so my advice would be to look up the tale but avoid looking at photos. They are really disturbing. Also...you know the Heath Ledger's Joker scars? I think they may have been inspired by this case.

Anyway, on a more pleasant note (or perhaps not), my 2nd roommate, Katie, is moving in tomorrow. I'm excited to see her, but I don't know how I feel about living with her right now. I know we'll get along fabulously, and I'm pretty sure we would make good roommates since we're friends but not best friends, but I've gotten so used to it just being me and Stefanie (who is like a part time roommate since she's rarely here) that I'm worried another person will sort of throw off the balance. I know that this is just me fretting needlessly about people like I always do (i.e. Katie and Kari visiting, etc), so I guess I'll just have to wait and see what it'll be like.

This Post is Actually About Books and Movies for Once

So by some sort of happy coincidence, I find myself ready to go to work 1 and 1/2 hours before I need to even think of being there, so I figured I'd do a post.

I finished OotP! But there's something I feel quite bad about: this book has never made me cry. I know, I know, Sirius's death is horridly tragic, but the first time I read this book, I already knew that Sirius died. I didn't read the whole series when it first came out, but my grandma bought me all of the earlier books when they all came out, so I owned all of them. Before I got into the series, she told me that someone dies in the 5th book. Thinking it was Ron or Hermione, I pestered her about it until she finally said, "Sirius dies!" And I was just like, "...Who?" It's really bad, I know. I do love Sirius, but since I knew it was coming and at the time I had not attachment to him, it was never that sad. But like I said, I feel bad about it now.

So now I'm onto Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, of course. I'm only on the second chapter, but I hope I can get through this one pretty quickly.

So there are 2 new movies I want to talk about. First, Vampires Suck. It's a parody of all of the recent vampire related movies (i.e. Twilight) and shows that have been littering the entertainment circuit recently. The trailer is hilarious, and I really want to see it! It actually comes out today, so maybe I'll get a chance to. Here's the official trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHkPJ1ACLrg

The 2nd movie is the film adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I read the book last summer, and it was completely awesome. There are 2 more books in the series, which I hope to eventually read, but for now they're just making the 1st movie. I'm really excited to see this one too!

HP Review

-Takes deep breath- HARRY POTTER WAS AWESOME!

Ahem. Sorry. It was really good, though! I wasn't a big fan of the book, but the movie was really good! Go see it!

That's basically it. I have to bask in the glow of HP-ness.

Slightly Unhappy Mood

So I finished Harry Potter. Again. It still isn't my favorite of the series, but I'm still really excited for the movie! It'll be interesting, though, because I'll be going straight from class, so I'll have to change in the cow. So we'll see.

The next book on my list is Anathem by Neal Stephenson. It's 937 pages. I hope I can actually finish it before it's due on the 22nd.

GAH! I really want summer to just be over. I've already been on break for 11 weeks, and I still have 6 to go. Now that I'm not working, I'm going crazy. It's pretty bad. I really just want to get back to college.

Sparks Flying

Happy 4th of July! Here's to a day of obnoxious family, barbecue blowouts, and lackluster fireworks!

My computer has been awful lately, but today my day got a hold of it and was able to fix most of the problems, so hopefully things won't be too band from here on out.

I'm still working on Harry Potter, but it's going a lot faster than all of the other books I've been reading. I'm already on page 399 and I've only started it a few days ago. With that said, I really hope they put the whole Ron-under-the-influence-of-the-love-potion part in the movie. It's coming soon, and I'm getting really excited! Speaking of the movie, apparently Rupert Grint came down with a mild case of swine flu, and I therefore think that warrants putting his picture on my blog. (Plus he's insanely adorable...I love his hair!)

Geekdom

I bought tickets for the midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince yesterday. I'm pretty excited! A few of my friends and I are going together, so it should be fun.

I'm also attempting to buy tickets for Youmacon, which is coming in October. I wanted to do the whole Gothic Lolita thing, but I have a football game to play at that weekend (I'm in the marching band), so I can only go up Saturday and Sunday. It sucks, but I'm glad I can still go. My cosplay costume is Nodoka Miyazaki from Negima!: Master Negi. My two sisters may be coming, and one of them might do Gothic Loli while the other is going as Renge from Ouran High School Host Club. This is my second year going, and it should be a lot of fun.

In September, my boyfriend and I are going to Cedar Point. I really, really want to go! It's going to be his birthday/anniversary gift (our anniversary is October 12th). I haven't been there in years, and I'm so excited!