Christmas in July
HBP is being released in July!!!! I new that was coming really (well hoped) but it is wonderful to get an official date. Think I will follow Maeg's thought and get it at a local bookstore instead of preordering online because then you have to wait for the post! Am finally taking a break to read HP fic after a two or three day hiatus finishing school and packing up. Took 10 online tests in one day and scored above 90% on all of them in Medical Terminology :o) Precalc will be aced tomorrow night, Human Growth and Development might get a C (but I want to take it again anyway in an actual classroom) and Sociology is dead but I don't mind taking it again.
So I am sitting in my nearly bare apartment, sipping wine, reading online, and watching "I love the 70s" on VH1. I was minus ten years old in the 70s so it's kind of pointless but wisecracks about pop culture are mildly entertaining in the background while I finish shoving things in boxes and read fic in between.
Haven't seen ROTK extended edition yet because I am most likely getting it for Xmas. Was in walmart the other day getting boxes and it there was ONE copy left beggin me to take it home, but I resisted... Every year mama knows there is a DVD that will make me squeal with delight; this year she was distressed because she couldn't figure it out until I gently hinted that ROTK EE wasn't going to be released until mid-December.
I don't really know many people who are (obssesive) fans of "Back to the Future" and "Indiana Jones" but I'd just like to take a moment to praise two of the defining series of my childhood. When I was seven I remember playing games based on both. I was happiest when I got to play Marty McFly and I thought Part II was the coolest thing ever because of the 'futuristic' scenes. I designed future products like watches that contained mini microwaves and food pills that would expand so you could carry your food with you. I played Indiana Jones too and made "diaries" filled with treasure maps and wore fedoras and insisted my friends call me Indy for years. I do believe they're both classics. Not perfect movies of course, but still worth going back to. The Indiana Jones movies are all great, and the WWII setting always appealed to me for some reason, but the movies themselves are a bit dated with wierd special effects - Raiders of the Lost Ark most of all with the crazy ghosts at the end. Back to the Future is better because it doesn't have too many special effects... the scene where Michael J. Fox plays three different characters (his older self, his son and daughter) is pretty seamless with decent makeup, and all the "futuristic" stuff is pretty standard of any eras vision of the future - super colorful with flying cars. Well... I think we still dream of flying cars, but we're heading away from multicolor towards a more classical even noir look. Maybe that's just me. :o) Okay, back to packing.
So I am sitting in my nearly bare apartment, sipping wine, reading online, and watching "I love the 70s" on VH1. I was minus ten years old in the 70s so it's kind of pointless but wisecracks about pop culture are mildly entertaining in the background while I finish shoving things in boxes and read fic in between.
Haven't seen ROTK extended edition yet because I am most likely getting it for Xmas. Was in walmart the other day getting boxes and it there was ONE copy left beggin me to take it home, but I resisted... Every year mama knows there is a DVD that will make me squeal with delight; this year she was distressed because she couldn't figure it out until I gently hinted that ROTK EE wasn't going to be released until mid-December.
I don't really know many people who are (obssesive) fans of "Back to the Future" and "Indiana Jones" but I'd just like to take a moment to praise two of the defining series of my childhood. When I was seven I remember playing games based on both. I was happiest when I got to play Marty McFly and I thought Part II was the coolest thing ever because of the 'futuristic' scenes. I designed future products like watches that contained mini microwaves and food pills that would expand so you could carry your food with you. I played Indiana Jones too and made "diaries" filled with treasure maps and wore fedoras and insisted my friends call me Indy for years. I do believe they're both classics. Not perfect movies of course, but still worth going back to. The Indiana Jones movies are all great, and the WWII setting always appealed to me for some reason, but the movies themselves are a bit dated with wierd special effects - Raiders of the Lost Ark most of all with the crazy ghosts at the end. Back to the Future is better because it doesn't have too many special effects... the scene where Michael J. Fox plays three different characters (his older self, his son and daughter) is pretty seamless with decent makeup, and all the "futuristic" stuff is pretty standard of any eras vision of the future - super colorful with flying cars. Well... I think we still dream of flying cars, but we're heading away from multicolor towards a more classical even noir look. Maybe that's just me. :o) Okay, back to packing.