for lack of anything better to do...

well, i do actually have some stuff due, i just don't feel like doing them right now.

i'm so mad at myself!! i was going to go to two of these theater reading things so i could write up my second and third performace-response paper things, BUT I WENT AND FORGOT TO GO!!! so now there's only one left. i better not forget that one too! i haven't been able to go to any readings because i'm either at work or in class. goddammit!!

in other news, i've been in uber-uploading mode with my website for the past few hours, and now the host is being crappy and won't let me login so i can finish uploading!! i've got SO MANY more pictures uploaded now!

and chris, i dunno what you're talking about; i don't find simple plan depressing in the slightest.

i kinda wanna go to sleep, but i can't thanks to the fact that i have homework that i really REALLY need to do. :(

c'est la vie

so i wake up this morning and i find a little stocking hung on my doorknob with candy and an ornament inside it bearing a tag reading "to anne, from st. nick" a pleasant surprise, but i'm still not entirely sure which one of my roommates put it there. either jessie or hanna, i'm sure of that much.

it's really cold out today; the wind chill is negative somethin' or another. it makes me wish that my internet jack (and consequently my desk) wasn't under my window where the cold air goes straight to my toes. maybe i should actually wear slippers :P i have a couple pairs at home. i find that socks are of no help in keeping my feet warm, and are rather constricting on the toes. hence i walk around the house (or dorm) barefoot all year 'round. it really tests my tolerance for cold when i'm walking around on the cold linolium floor in the basement at home, but oh well. i've really been wanting hot chocolate lately, but i haven't gotten around to actually going out and buying more milk. and no, i don't want to just use water. it doesn't taste anywhere near as good. maybe i should just go and buy milk now, i'm not doing anything else. i have a paper i need to write by next monday, and essay that was due last tuesday and i need to edit my latest story to present it on thursday. but right now i'm being a lazy-ass procrastinator. i really need to start on that essay, though. and after this evening i'll have a take-home math test to do, but that shouldn't be hard. it's, as mr. west would say, baby algebra.

in the process of reading the fourth, fifth, and sixth harry potter books right now. third time reading order of the phoenix and it will be (when i finish number five) the second time reading half-blood prince. i'll be reclaiming the latter from my mother, who still hasn't finished reading it through once. she's had it since july when my dad and i were each through reading it(which was less than a week after it was released, we are such nerdy book worms). as for goblet of fire, don't ask my what number time this was reading it. i have no fucking clue, i lost count after four, and that was four years ago. so anyway, thanks to all this i've come down with a moderate case of potter fever which will only be cured by reading the books again and driving myself to insanity waiting for book seven. oooo, i can't wait!!

it's funny, before i was reading harry potter again i was reading artemis fowl, who really reminds me of draco malfoy. they're both rather evil and described as distinguished looking (artemis is actually described as looking very vampiric several times). only differences are that draco is blonde, while artemis has black hair. draco has two brainless cronie thugs, and artemis has butler (yes, that's his surname), who is the best friggin' bodyguard ever! to tell you the truth it's an insult to compare butler to crabbe and goyle. there's nobody you could compare with butler; he's in a league all by himself. anyway, back to artemis and draco. another large difference is that artemis is a boy genius (despite how cliche that sounds), while draco is an average hogwarts student. artemis, though he lacks wizarding blood, does have some magical connections, those being the People. yea, that's right, capitol 'p' and everything. the People are comprised of elves, dwarves, gnomes, goblins, pixies, and the occasional centaur (which would be foaly, the technical genius). and as the series progresses, artemis becomes less of what can be described as "evil". to tell you the truth, i don't know if you can really really call draco evil either. read half-blood prince and you'll know what i'm talking about. well, you should anyway. if you don't you're being too close-minded and not picking up on what is really being said about draco. in my opinion, anyway.

well, i think i'll go freeze my ass off now, and scrape off my car and go grocery shopping. we need a couple other things than milk, and like i said, i'm really not getting anything done sitting here.

Rules for Surviving a Horror Movie

Rules for Surviving a Horror Movie

i know i said that you can use anything and everything as a lethal weapon, but poptarts?

i thought this was more season-appropriate

yea, so i was in a winter-y mood, and felt like my blog needed to have a more winter-y theme. so here we go; asuka and rei in the snow.

and yes joe, i do know harry potter down to the bone, or however you put it. it's my job. i know almost every little ridiculous bit of trivia from all of the harry potter books. note the word almost. i used to know more, you see, but i can't remember exactly how long harry and his parents' wands were anymore. i still remember that hagrid's wand was sixteen inches long before it was snapped in half his..... third, i think, year at hogwarts when he was expelled after being falsely accused of being the heir of slytherin by the actual heir of slytherin. (best way to prove your innocence, you know; pinning the blame on someone else).

you know what a good song is? my alien by simple plan. it reminds me of lum from urusei yatsura. yea, i know, i'm weird like that.

i can't wait for christmas break. no more school for several weeks, and hopefully i'll be able to hang out with everybody that i haven't since this summer.

i got ranma 1/2 season 4 in the mail the other day. this is the one where they switch the person who voices ranma. they switched from the lady who sounds like a rather convincing guy to the guy who was also the voice of inuyasha. the first episode was really weird because i was sitting there thinking "it's inuyasha..." @_@ but then i got used to it and it started to sound more uniquely like ranma. i can't wait till i order season 5, it starts out with the episode with the pork bun people who try to steal the dragon's whisker that ties the end of ranma's pigtail. i call them pork bun people anyway, jessie calls them the dumpling guys, but they actually have names. i just have no idea what they are. they aren't mentioned often.

Ah, back to the previous layout...

I decided that I liked the Ranma and Akane layout better, so here it is.

I went to see the newest Harry Potter movie, and I must say it was the best one so far. Unfortunately, though, it would have taked over five hours to show the entire book, so they had to cut SO MUCH out. All you movie-goers out there, you have no hope in understanding this one without the book, so tough luck. What I was really disappointed with was the Quiddich World Cup part. Why? Oh, gee, just a little something or another like I ACTUALLY WANTED TO SEE THE QUIDDICH MATCH! It wasn't that long! They coulda taken all that extra time they wasted on the first task and used it on the world cup! And speaking of the first task; WAY over the top. Seriously. I just re-read the 4th book (for the umteenth time) and it specifically stated that Harry was the quickest to get the egg, which was under ten minutes I believe. They didn't go flying all over the fucking castle, dammit! The reason they chose those specific dragons were because they were nesting mothers, therefore they wouldn't WANT to leave their nest (where the golden egg was hidden) let alone the arena. Another thing: Beauxbatons WAS NOT an all girls' school, and Durmstrang WAS NOT an all boys school. It is specifically mentioned that boys and girls arrive from both schools. They didn't show Hagrid's Blast-Ended Skrewts, either, which was dissappointing as well. I also wanted to see Dobby again. I have no idea how they expect movie-goers to follow the plotline in the next movie, honestly, because they've had to cut out so many plot points in this one. Unless they've read the book, of course. Nobody's gonna know that Fudge is furious at Dumbledore and point-blank refuses to believe that Voldemort has returned. Nobody's gonna know that (almost) the entire world thinks Harry is an unstable pathological liar thanks to Rita Skeeter's many untruthful articles. They won't know about how Hermione discovered that Rita is an unregistered animagus and has been spying on all of them all year in the form of a beetle. Nobody's gonna know that Dobby works at Hogwarts now (or that it was actually supposed to be him that gave Harry the gillyweed right before the second task. Harry almost overslept and missed it too.) Nobody's gonna know that Fred and George have been developing magical joke-stuff and that Harry have them his one thousand galleon prize money of them to open their joke shop (or that Ludo Bagman cheated Fred and George out of their bet-winnings on the world cup; Ireland wins, but Krum gets the Snitch). So how're they going to explain Professor Umbridge's appearance? Why is a ministry witch suddenly posted at Hogwarts? (because Fudge doesn't trust Dumbledore anymore, that's why). They totally left out Percy and his overly-ambitious attitude toward his new position in the department of International Magical Cooperation at the Ministry of Magic. this is important too! Because Percy ends up disowning his family and siding with the Ministry rather than admitting that Voldemort really has returned and taking an active position in the Order of the Phoenix (like Molly, Arthur, Bill, and Charlie Weasley do). They don't show Bill or Charlie either for that matter! This is also important, because we find out in book six that Fleur Delacou (Beauxbatons champion) gets engaged to Bill Weasley.

*sigh* You know, if everyone would just read the book we wouldn't have this problem. I could go on and on for hours about all the things they left out, but it's already four in the morning and i still have homework to finish.