st_jane_ambulance: (six)
Yesterday I spend the entire day in my pajamas, ate turkey, and watched Goblet of Fire with my mom. Today Mom and I went shopping. I bought two awesome coats and got lots of socks.  We each had peppermint mochas from Starbucks and they were yummy. I had turkey sandwiches for both lunch and dinner and started learning to knit. Tomorrow Mom may take me to pick out yarn and get my own needles. Once I get good I can make my own Gryffindor scarf and sweater.
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I need to stop going to the library with only my German homework, because the basic stuff takes about five minutes and it's kind of embarrassing to only stay there for that long. I don't like to drag all my books around because my backpack is heavy enough with all the German crap I have to take to class every day. Maybe after I gain some muscle from all the walking I can start carrying my computer. And after my parents bring the futon thing I can start sleeping normally again. Let's hope. I wish I could sleep on the couch in the library CPS staff break room.

I think I'm turning pseudo-vegetarian. WTF? Do NOT ask me how this happened. It wasn't really a conscious choice; I'm just not as into meat as I used to be. I think I've eaten meat once in the week since I've been here, and at that meal there really wasn't a lot of variety. Tonight I tried a couple of vegetarian nuggets, and they weren't bad. I don't know. I often go through phases with food, maybe this is one of them.

I'm starting to remember some of the frustrations I'd forgotten about when learning new languages. Namely the other people in the class who just don't get it. People who don't even try to pronounce the words they way they should be pronounced. People who can't read a word on the board that to me is painfully simple. I know I have a tendency to be arrogant about that sort of thing. But god, sometimes I wish I could study one-on-one. At least there don't seem to be any characters in my classes who monopolize the instructor's time (and mine!) by asking ten thousand questions about everything. Today in Old English we learned how to say "snot." I'm going to enjoy that class.

One of the British guys lives three doors down from me. 

OMG OOTP photos on Yahoo!!! ALL THE BOYS CUT THEIR HAIR!!!! NOOOOOOO!!!!!
st_jane_ambulance: (red)
I finally did it! I read through all of the Harry Potter books without any hang-ups, and damned if I'll remember any more in a few months than I did two weeks ago. That's the downside of marathons like these: when you read them fast, everything blends together and by the time you get to the end you can't remember the beginning. Now I'm going to bore you all (both?) with some hopes/speculations/fears regarding Book Seven.

I had suspicions to the contrary before, but now it seems reasonably clear to me that Snape is not on our side. Previously I thought it could go either way, but was leaning toward him playing the other side and I had all sorts of crazy ideas. But reading the last book again, I really don't have high hopes for his being a good guy. I really think he serves Voldemort. Unless, of course, he's playing him in hopes of becoming the next Dark Lord himself. I wouldn't put it past him. I do think Draco's winnable. I've had this crazy desire for a while now to see him and Harry fighting side by side as allies, and I have no idea one way or another whether that will happen, but it would be cool.

There's also this Horcrux business. I am absolutely positive that one of them is (or was) at Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place, which Harry now owns. They seemed to come across it when cleaning out the place, and I can only hope that Kreacher kept it and that nobody threw it away, because that would be disastrous. The others, well, they'll be a little tougher to find. I wouldn't be surprised if one of them was at the orphanage where Voldemort was raised.

There's one more hopeful speculation I'm keeping to myself, just because I think I should.

As for the rumors people are flinging around that Harry is going to kick the bucket, I sincerely hope not. I have invested far too much emotion in many characters (as evidenced by the way I could hardly get through the end of book six because I kept crying and couldn't see the page) and would be most unhappy if any of them were to die. Aside from Harry himself, these characters include Ron, Lupin, Tonks, and all of the other Weasleys except for Percy. If Harry dies, I shall be very put out.

In other notes, What Not to Use as a Horcrux, item #1: A balloon.

Now I'll have to find something else to read.
st_jane_ambulance: (snape)
I had hoped to finish Half-Blood Prince today so that I could watch all the movies tomorrow, my one completely free day this week, but seeing as I have over two hundred and fifty pages left I'd say it's not bloody likely. Either way, I'll have something to do tomorrow.
st_jane_ambulance: (quidditch)
After putting my glasses back together this morning I began Half-Blood Prince. I really can't believe how much I've read in just eleven days. Huge portions of this book have completely wiped themselves blank from my mind, and I only read it a year ago. I do, however, find myself remembering quite specific things before I quite reach them in the book, so I guess I haven't quite forgotten as much as I thought I had, but only disremembered it. Things like this include the thing with Dumbledore's hand ( I still can't remember exactly what happened to it, though I have a guess), the part where Harry gets kicked in the face on the train (which I also remembered, along with the scene itself, how much it surprised me the first time I read it), and Fenrir Greyback. That's all I can think of at the moment, I may have forgotten more already. I did not remember how often Ron seems to be giving people the Bird (at least I think that's what he's doing; it just says he makes a 'rude hand gesture') or that the entire Weasley clock is stuck on mortal peril. This book still seems weird to me.

I realise that for people who are not very familiar with the books (which may be one or both of you, I don't really know) this post probably makes absolutely no sense whatsoever and I do not apologise.

My spelling also seems to have become British.
st_jane_ambulance: (quidditch)
I've got about 300 pages to go in Order of the Phoenix (roughly the length of the first book) and I'm finally in unfamiliar territory; I haven't read the back half of this one in about three years and so far almost nothing rings a bell. I've realized this is a dry year for Harry Potter (no new book, no new movie) which there hasn't been since the books started coming out here. Good thing I'm getting my fix. But soon I'll run out and there won't be any more and I'll be sad.

Both the cats are sneezing and sniffling with some respiratory thing. Rodrigo's being a brat and not letting us give him his meds without putting up a good fight. I've suggested sticking the eyedropper down his throat while he's sleeping, or knocking him out first. Mom wasn't too thrilled with those ideas.

I never thought I'd hear myself say it, but I'm starting to miss being in school and having tons of homework. I've been reading these books with kids at school and all their homework for a week and a half and it's making me jealous. I want to go to a magic school and play Quidditch and stuff. I'll have to settle for a Muggle university and club sports; I've never played sports in school in my life, except for lunchtime soccer and whatever was in PE, so there's not a chance in hell I'd make the teams. But there's about 5000 clubs there, so I should be able to find something I like. I really want to learn to snowboard. Hockey or soccer might be fun as well. I just can't do sports that involve throwing, because I throw like a girl. 
College certainly suits me better than K-12, and oddly enough I do best when I'm constantly kept busy writing essays and stuff. I had two terms at Chemeketa where I got all As: one was fall of last year when I had Precalculus, Astronomy, and Speech (which is incredible, because I'm usually terrible at every one of those subjects); and winter of my second year when I had three English classes (Intro Shakespeare, Intro Drama Lit, Intro Mythology) and World History. I was turning in several essays every couple of weeks and my notebook was delightfully crammed and messy. I really wish I'd had this spirit about learning when I was a kid. Maybe if the atmosphere hadn't been so repressive I'd have had the will to do better. But those years have gone.

I have nine workdays remaining before I gleefully rejoin the rainks of the unemployed.
st_jane_ambulance: (quidditch)
There are fifteen days left in this month and I work ten of them. I hope for everybody's sake they go by fast. I'm sure as hell not working for anybody else for the rest of the month. I think one ot them tried to ask me to the other day, but I wasn't able to call her back and I would have said no anyway. These last two weeks are going to go so slowly. I need to be done with this job.

I always have trouble reading Order of the Phoenix because there's so much anger in that book. Parts of it remind me of how caged I felt in school, and I just want to reach into the book and throttle that horrible teacher. She is possibly my least favorite character in the entire series, and that includes Voldemort and Snape. People only like Snape because he's played by Alan Rickman in the movies. In just the books, he's a right bastard and he often pisses me off. But I still don't believe he's evil. Even with that thing he did.

Four weeks till Stargate.

NOOO!!!

Jun. 15th, 2006 07:11 pm
st_jane_ambulance: (snape)
OMG THEY THREW AWAY THE F***ING LOCKET! I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY DID THAT!!! DON'T THEY KNOW THAT THING IS A BLOODY HORCRUX??!!?! WE'RE DOOMED!
st_jane_ambulance: (boys)
Things would have been so much simpler if James Potter had just turned into a stag and gored Voldemort's ass.
st_jane_ambulance: (snape)
Just finished Prisoner of Azkaban. I've been reading very closely through the whole series, watching for signs of things to come which I have and haven't yet seen. It's fun, seeing a casual mention of something and thinking, "that's very important later!" Whenever I read or write a lot my internal narrator pops up again and it narrates everything I do. Right now it sounds suspiciously like JK Rowling's writing style. And I've got 2,256 pages to go...

I really think I might make it all the way through the books without stopping this time. We'll see when I get to Book Five.
st_jane_ambulance: (snape)
I'm about a third of the way into Prisoner of Azkaban at this point. Yesterday I read all of Chamber of Secrets, which I haven't done since the first time. I work two more days and then I get three off in a row! My longest stretch this month. After I'm done reading the books I'm going to watch all the movies. It's been so long since I've seen some of them. I'm getting eyestrain and I'm only in book three! *sobs*
st_jane_ambulance: (quidditch)
Two days in a row I have had to work alone because the people I'm supposed to worth with can't get their schedules straight and The Boss hasn't hired anybody else yet. Tomorrow I get to work with Mitch, who's back in town. That should be fun.

I'm still in Sorcerer's Stone and enjoying it. I think this is the fourth time I've read this book in three and a half years. It'll be the same with Goblet of fire once I get that far. Chamber of Secrets and Prisoner of Azkaban have only been read twice, I think, because I skipped them last year when I was catching up for Half-Blood Prince, which I've only read once. I've read Order of the Phoenix once all the way through, and the first half or so twice more. I have trouble getting through that one, for several reasons. It's a lot longer for one, not only the number of pages, but the print is also smaller so it's even longer compared to the others than it looks at first glance. Also, I feel Harry's anger, and he has a lot of it in that one. Umbridge reminds me of how I felt in school at that age (okay, maybe I didn't have it quite THAT bad, but I had that same anger) and I desperately want to punch her in the face but I can't because she's a character in a book. Which is my favorite? I'm not sure. I like PoA because Lupin's in it a lot and I love him. I like GoF because it kicks ass and the chapter Blood, Flesh & Bone is possibly my favorite in the series so far. I also like HBP because it also kicked ass. It seemed somehow different though, and I can't really put my finger on why. But I still loved it. I only wish it was longer.

Do you know I have the same given names as TWO X-men? Crazy.
st_jane_ambulance: (boys)
Today, I am happy. There is no stupid new discriminatory amendment. I want to party. I have fifteen days of work left. I started reading Harry again. I don't, however, have any dinner. 

Nuts.
st_jane_ambulance: (snape)
I saw The Omen today! Woo! And there were THREE people in it who had been in one Harry Potter or another. Karkaroff (briefly), Dumbledore (ver. 2), and Lupin (one of my favs). I love David Thewlis. He looked better than he did in the last couple of movies I saw him in. Also, I found out today that David Thewlis/Remus Lupin has been added to IMDb's Order of the Phoenix cast list! YAY!!! And Bellatrix Lestrange is going to be played by Helena Bonham-Carter! I cannot wait until next July. I need to read those books again.

Getting back to The Omen,  I really liked it. It made me jump many times and there was lots of good acting and wonderful filming. Lots and lots of red. It has to be the most faithful remake I've ever seen. And David Thewlis makes one adorable snow bunny.
st_jane_ambulance: (boys)

Reasons why I'm looking forward to July:

No more job!
Pirates of the Caribbean!
My brother comes home!
Dentist appointment
New Seasons of Stargate Sg-1 and Atlantis!
Superman Returns! (okay, it comes out June 30 but I work that night for the last time at the theater)

I WANT to know why Jack and Will seem to be fighting each other in the Dead Man's Chest preview. A lovers' quarrell, probably. I wish. Also I saw a nice preview of Superman Returns and it looks awesome. I didn't see James Marsden in it, but he's fourth on the list at IMDb so he probably has more screen time and hopefully a lot less dying. Bryan Singer knows how to treat him right. And this Tuesday is The Omen! I hope David Thewlis' character doesn't go the way of the original and get his head lopped off.

I think I'll start reading the Harry Potter series again because I'm kind of in a boredom slump. The last time I read them all, there were only four. I found out the fifth movie's coming out in July of next year, so i won't be able to wear my scarf. Assuming my mother finished it by then (she'd have to find it first). It'll have to be my GOF poster t-shirt.

st_jane_ambulance: (three)
I started writing this song sometime last year, maybe Juneish. It's more or less finished except for some polishing and a bridge. It's got music too but I can't play the damn guitar. Yet.


This next one was written just after I read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.  At the end of the book I had this vague image in my head of the search for the remaining horcruxes and this is an expression of that.

The Quest )

Eragon

May. 4th, 2006 11:28 pm
st_jane_ambulance: (six)
I just finished reading Eragon and it was all right. I do wish that I'd looked at the film cast list before I'd started. I had the wrong guy for Brom. But the guy I used was offered the role, so I was close. I'm not wild about Christopher Paolini's writing style because it seems amateurish and unrefined, but I guess I should go easier on a guy who wrote his first book at fifteen. Show off. Anyway, the story was decent and it had one character that I really liked, but part of that may have something to do with him in my mind looking suspiciously like Robert Pattinson (aka Cedric Diggory). Sometimes when I read books I figure out plot twists that aren't really there, and I hope that turns out to be the case with one involving him. It actually makes a bit of sense and I've seen little that disproves it, but I still hope I'm wrong about it. If I'm not, it basically means toast for my guy. I don't know how I cooked this one up, either. It's a doozy. Anyway I have to wait three or four days until I can get the next book so I won't know for sure until at LEAST then. Maybe not even until the third book, and I don't think that's been written yet. Fooey. Oh well, I'll keep hoping my imagination is putting things together that don't go again. I'm really terrible at solving mysteries. I think Half-Blood Prince is the only one I actually figured out almost right away. No romance taking over in this book, but I know for a fact it's only a matter of time because the fortune teller said so and she's been right about stuff so far. I just hope it's the cute black chick and not Mary Sue Elf. She's too old for Eragon anyway. I know I said that thing about wanting an older girl in a couple, but she's probably got at least a few thousand years on this kid. I don't think it would work out. Personally I think he should snub both girls and choose his buddy Murtagh (who looks alarmingly like Robert Pattinson), but I'm not that lucky. They'll have to have a secret affair. I don't feel like reading my other books now, I feel like continuing this series... which is weird, because I usually get sick of a series after one book and have to leapfrog. Maybe I liked this book more than I think I did. I guess I don't usually finish a five hundred page book unless I have some interest. I MUST find out what happens to Murtagh. I don't much care for Paolini's descriptions of his female characters. There's only one who he doesn't keep reminding us is Aphrodite's twin, and I think that one's based on his sister. Well, two, but the other one's a dragon so she doesn't count. She's blue, that's about all I know. I will give the next book a try. But if the Evil King Galbatorix turns out to be Eragon's father, I will never read another book again.  

When I'm reading Eragon is played by Daniel Radcliffe. And you may have heard Murtagh is Robert Pattinson. Yay! Pretty!

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