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I have decided to have Café Intermezzo Day on Sunday, July 29. This will be the Perimeter Mall location, Ashford Dunwoody Road, outside of I-285, in the shopping center by the Jared's. I'll even wear clothes so they don't have to hide me behind a post. I'm planning to stay there for several hours. For those who would like to join me for coffee, brandy, cake, and cheese, 3-7 p.m. is the definite window. If no one shows, I can spend several hours at Intermezzo alone and be very pleased with it. It is the Birthday Treat For Myself.
Monday, I have been informed, there are auditions for "Merry Wives of Windsor." I haven't been on stage for a good long time, and I'm planning to go. That puts "Update acting resume" on the list of things to do this weekend.
I also need to register the car. I may do that this afternoon, ("Look at the time, I can't believe it, they'll be leaving for lunch by the time I get dressed...") or it may have to wait until Monday. But I have the paperwork/emissions (thank you, Charlie!) ready, so I'm ready to do the thing.
Tuesday is my actual birthday; also Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling's birthday, so if any of you are going to be missing this because you're having Harry Potter Day, well, you suck. :) Charlie and I already have tickets to go to Six Flags, and if anyone wants to go with us, you're invited, but since I can't afford to buy folkses tickets, I know this limits the opportunities severely.
I did finish Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In fact, I finished it before SCA meeting Wednesday.
I don't have much to say, except that I was satisfied that the story worked as she had planned it, that it worked as it ought to have, and that I was right about some things -- right enough to feel like I hadn't misread things, but completely in the dark about many other things that made it still a good read and a good story.
Rowling did not disappoint me, overall. From the first, I have really admired the fact that, instead of sticking with one age group, she wrote books that aged as the characters (and the readers) did. The first book was all childish delight and pratfalls, the last was a serious discussion of good and evil, making grown-up decisions, living with mistakes, and accepting death. I found it redundant and annoying the way people in the public talked about how things were "darker," and how this movie wasn't "as good." I'm looking forward to the movie because it won't be the childish flying broom story anymore.
I'm glad to be right about Snape. I'm glad of the way Rowling treated him. She was right. Snape was a spiteful, petty bully, but he loved Lily enough to try to help her son. She made a lot of good points, in this last book especially, about how good people aren't good all the time, and bad people aren't necessarily evil, and evil can make dumb mistakes. There's no synonymity.
I'm glad that HH&R all lived. I'm glad that Harry and Ginny got together. I'm still not sure how I feel about killing both Lupin and Tonks. Poor Lupin-Tonks baby, orphaned. And I don't know what George will be like without Fred. Perhaps it's convenient to kill a twin, because you have an extra, but I think of them as the pair, always acting and working as a pair, and I can't imagine life in the Potter world without them. Because without Fred (and without an ear), George will be entirely a different character. Not that she's writing anymore about that.
I, like the characters, was able to accept Dumbledore's death a lot better over the course of book 7. I thought she did that well, too. In large part, I was unsurprised, but I was highly satisfied.
Watching a segment with Rowling on MSNBC last night, I discovered that she cried writing the scene that I cried over... when Harry goes into the forest to meet Voldemort. I was reading the book as fast as I could, and by that point I was completely caught up in the story, but for several minutes, I was completely in mourning.
I was proud of Neville. I was glad his grandmother was, too.
Oh, and I really liked how Harry kept calling Voldemort by his real name: Tom Riddle. Saying in effect, You've made yourself big and bad, but you're still a man, a guy named Tom, who makes mistakes, who is arrogant and thinks that all the secrets and strong magic belongs to him, without ever wondering what others can offer. In the end, Harry needed to not see him as this huge powerful force. That was good.
Anything I'm forgetting?
Just some more boring stuff to put at the end here, so people can comment without seeing spoilers if they don't want to.
I need to call my mother and see if she can come down, or Jennifer, or Michael, or the kids, or if I need to go up there.
I think it's about time for the brakes to be replaced.
I'm looking forward to having a job again. There's a couple of debts I need to repay, and I need new tires. And it will be nice to buy incidental things again without worrying or asking for money. Of course, that means making a budget, too, and I'm not so much looking forward to that.
The rest of today I think I'll be in the bedroom, cleaning up books, refolding clothes, various organizing things. I've been putting off organizing my jewelry for too long, and the jewelry cabinet is an absolute mess of trinkets, coins, mismatched earrings, and hair barrettes.
Charlie is going into HIS "crunch mode," to finish his certification before August 10. Still, we're planning to plan to go to Pirates III and HP V at some point in the near future. I'll keep you updated in case anyone wants to join us.
Monday, I have been informed, there are auditions for "Merry Wives of Windsor." I haven't been on stage for a good long time, and I'm planning to go. That puts "Update acting resume" on the list of things to do this weekend.
I also need to register the car. I may do that this afternoon, ("Look at the time, I can't believe it, they'll be leaving for lunch by the time I get dressed...") or it may have to wait until Monday. But I have the paperwork/emissions (thank you, Charlie!) ready, so I'm ready to do the thing.
Tuesday is my actual birthday; also Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling's birthday, so if any of you are going to be missing this because you're having Harry Potter Day, well, you suck. :) Charlie and I already have tickets to go to Six Flags, and if anyone wants to go with us, you're invited, but since I can't afford to buy folkses tickets, I know this limits the opportunities severely.
I did finish Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In fact, I finished it before SCA meeting Wednesday.
I don't have much to say, except that I was satisfied that the story worked as she had planned it, that it worked as it ought to have, and that I was right about some things -- right enough to feel like I hadn't misread things, but completely in the dark about many other things that made it still a good read and a good story.
Rowling did not disappoint me, overall. From the first, I have really admired the fact that, instead of sticking with one age group, she wrote books that aged as the characters (and the readers) did. The first book was all childish delight and pratfalls, the last was a serious discussion of good and evil, making grown-up decisions, living with mistakes, and accepting death. I found it redundant and annoying the way people in the public talked about how things were "darker," and how this movie wasn't "as good." I'm looking forward to the movie because it won't be the childish flying broom story anymore.
I'm glad to be right about Snape. I'm glad of the way Rowling treated him. She was right. Snape was a spiteful, petty bully, but he loved Lily enough to try to help her son. She made a lot of good points, in this last book especially, about how good people aren't good all the time, and bad people aren't necessarily evil, and evil can make dumb mistakes. There's no synonymity.
I'm glad that HH&R all lived. I'm glad that Harry and Ginny got together. I'm still not sure how I feel about killing both Lupin and Tonks. Poor Lupin-Tonks baby, orphaned. And I don't know what George will be like without Fred. Perhaps it's convenient to kill a twin, because you have an extra, but I think of them as the pair, always acting and working as a pair, and I can't imagine life in the Potter world without them. Because without Fred (and without an ear), George will be entirely a different character. Not that she's writing anymore about that.
I, like the characters, was able to accept Dumbledore's death a lot better over the course of book 7. I thought she did that well, too. In large part, I was unsurprised, but I was highly satisfied.
Watching a segment with Rowling on MSNBC last night, I discovered that she cried writing the scene that I cried over... when Harry goes into the forest to meet Voldemort. I was reading the book as fast as I could, and by that point I was completely caught up in the story, but for several minutes, I was completely in mourning.
I was proud of Neville. I was glad his grandmother was, too.
Oh, and I really liked how Harry kept calling Voldemort by his real name: Tom Riddle. Saying in effect, You've made yourself big and bad, but you're still a man, a guy named Tom, who makes mistakes, who is arrogant and thinks that all the secrets and strong magic belongs to him, without ever wondering what others can offer. In the end, Harry needed to not see him as this huge powerful force. That was good.
Anything I'm forgetting?
Just some more boring stuff to put at the end here, so people can comment without seeing spoilers if they don't want to.
I need to call my mother and see if she can come down, or Jennifer, or Michael, or the kids, or if I need to go up there.
I think it's about time for the brakes to be replaced.
I'm looking forward to having a job again. There's a couple of debts I need to repay, and I need new tires. And it will be nice to buy incidental things again without worrying or asking for money. Of course, that means making a budget, too, and I'm not so much looking forward to that.
The rest of today I think I'll be in the bedroom, cleaning up books, refolding clothes, various organizing things. I've been putting off organizing my jewelry for too long, and the jewelry cabinet is an absolute mess of trinkets, coins, mismatched earrings, and hair barrettes.
Charlie is going into HIS "crunch mode," to finish his certification before August 10. Still, we're planning to plan to go to Pirates III and HP V at some point in the near future. I'll keep you updated in case anyone wants to join us.
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Date: 2007-07-27 05:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-27 05:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-27 05:56 pm (UTC)Yep, those'd be the auditions that my enterprising little theatre will be conducting. :)
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Date: 2007-07-27 05:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-27 07:39 pm (UTC)Soon, I'll be living on show-time.
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Date: 2007-07-27 07:54 pm (UTC)You would pick a Sunday in the last hours I have to prep for a show. Oi. I’d go, but my stress level would, literally, be so high I’d both be lousy company and unable to enjoy the outting. Gwah …
And then there’s this …
If it weren’t both my World of Warcraft night and kind of expensive, I’d be on it like a Junebug on a very small, vegetative thing. I can probably find some kind of AAA membership price break, but then I have to filter the cost of the Q-bot back in (because SF just isn’t worth it without the Q-bot; it literally triples — if not more — the amount of rides you can get on during a day). Sigh.
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Date: 2007-07-27 08:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-27 08:13 pm (UTC)Yeah, the “I’m better than you so I’m going up the back way to get to the front of the line” thingy. Worth it just for that ability alone, frankly. Plus, not standing in long lines for the best rides, just walk up, bleep-in, and go get a lemonaide. Too worth it at SF not to get, in my opinion.
Mmm, getting dragged off wouldn’t be a complete loss. I still haven’t seen Pirates.
Eh, I sleep in ‘til about 3p, then get up and begin puttering about. My natural cycle is pretty nocturnal. Probably says a lot about my life, that.
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Date: 2007-07-28 07:40 pm (UTC)As for the book...Speaking as a mom... Go Molly!!