i let my katew.com domain expire because i was dumb and thought it would automatically renew. so now it’s in the hands of some guy in korea and they want to charge me at least $60 for me to get it back.
how annoying.
so now my dilemma is do i buy katew.net or some other kate related domain, or do i just let my website go off into oblivion? it’s nice for file hosting and stuff, but i can always do that somewhere online, too. what a quandry.
i seriously do not know why i put myself through watching the HP movies.
i just finished watching #5, and as much as i hate the book and want to throw it at the wall everytime i read it, the movie disgusted me. especially the end and how all the different rooms were cut out and the statues didn’t come to life.
here’s what i don’t understand: how can people just watch the movies without reading the books? there is so much that the movie writers assume the watchers know.
yuck-o to the tenth degree.
ok, so i understand the title of the book is to indicate that harry was indeed the master of death, much like the deathly hallows.
but, why would dumbledore introduce this new idea of the deathly hallows without having mentioned it before? yes, we’ve come across the individual objects throughout the books, but only referred to them as the deathly hallows in this one.
when harry, hermione and ron have to be so focused on the horcruxes, why have them find the hallows? yes, understanding the elder wand helped harry get the upper hand on voldemort in the end, but why have all three?
was it because dumbledore wanted a backup plan to harry’s possible death? if harry had the hallows, could he have come back to life if the blood protection in voldemort didn’t work?
and what do we think of dumbledore now that we know he withheld the information from harry about him having to die? is it cruel, like snape said, raising a boy for slaughter? until book 4 when we see dumbledore’s gleam of triumph, was he in fact cruel (he finally found a loophole, and was justified in keeping harry in the dark)?
has your perception of dumbledore changed? i guess that is what it comes down to.
i’m rereading HP 7 because i was slightly distracted by the reuinon the first time and i figure there were a few things i missed as well.
the first time i read it, i thought griffindor’s sword had basilisk venom in the hilt somewhere, deliberately put there by the goblins when they made it, but upon second reading, i realize the sword soaks up all that makes it stronger, so when harry stabbed the basilisk in book 2, the sword absorbed some of the venom. huh!
and, snape’s patronus is a doe, which i assume was also lily’s patronus, which was the complement to james’ stag (which i assume is what form his took, since harry’s is also a stag). awww. that made me smile.
the many references to aberforth and goats. they are all over. i have to find the first time he was mentioned and read about this magical misdealings with a goat that he did. hmmm.
i realize that yes, hermione had just opened her bag when she mentioned “forest of dean” so that nigellus could hear where they were and inform snape.
and, i had thought, wow, dumbledore must’ve been an awesome wizard to have conquered the elder wand, but i somehow missed that grindelwald had stolen the wand, which meant that the power was never really his. so the power structure was gregorovich, dumbledore, draco, harry, while the ownership was gregorovich, grindelwald, dumbledore, voldemort.
and i am only in the middle of rereading it, so i am sure i will have more revelations. 🙂
and i must say, i am especially appreciative of her conjunction use between two independent clauses this book (in the past, she has notoriously spliced her commas, which drove me absolutely bonkers).
“If Internet petitions actually worked, then Bruce Campbell would be the star of every movie.”
— Kevin Smith
you’re a graphic designer when you notice the .5 font point difference in Harry Potter #5…
When I was young, you would be hard pressed to find me on any given evening without a book in hand. If I wasn’t doing homework or other such nonsense during high school, I was most likely holed up in my room, speed-reading some youth novel like sweet valley high or a thriller by John Grisham. In second grade, you weren’t allowed to rent books from the “adult” section of the school library, which I thought was the most atrocious thing ever (mostly because I wanted to read little house on the prairie books), so I checked out the thickest books with the most words in the kids’ section as many times as possible (hoping they’d get the hint, maybe). My bookwormish attitude was well known, and I was top reader many times in school, always got the book-it! Pizza pin full, and two boys in my class even timed me reading once (unbeknownst to me) and were utterly amazed at the speed at which I read.
But I haven’t read for fun in a long time. Oh, I tried. While I was in college, I would have to read the assignments, which meant I really didn’t feel like reading for fun, but I would inevitably pick up a book and read it. Sometimes I got lucky, mostly in chick lit, and I did have fun reading some, but in the end, they all end the same and follow the same progression in the story: intro, issue, angst, climax, end. I do enjoy CL to an extent, but sometimes a person can only enjoy so much.
Then there were the books that I pretended to enjoy, but were much too much work to get through, and in the end I didn’t really enjoy them. For instance, the wheel of time by Robert Jordan was good in theory, but after reading 5 books, each 800+ pages in tiny print, there has to be one heck of a plot to keep me plodding along. I’ve been reading book 6 now for about 8 months, and I haven’t picked it up in maybe 3. I think I’m done.
But school has finished, and no longer are my evenings filled with readings about comm. theories and how to weasel your way out of a libel suit. So I have started reading again, and variety is truly the spice of life. I just finished a wayyy too depressing memoir – liars’ club, until they bring the streetcars back, Bruce Campbell’s new book, and three books by bill Bryson.
I don’t know if it’s possible to get burnt out on a genre, but it’s possible Robert Jordan did it for me. Even though I love robin McKinley’s books with all my heart, it may be a while before I pick one up again. For now, I’ve focused on Bryson’s witty writing about his travels as well as other books Amazon recommends me so I don’t get burnt out on his writing.
Anyway, I forgot how much fun it is to delve into a book you aren’t obligated to read or don’t feel you should like. I do have a tendency to finish all books I start, even if they are the suxors majorly, but I can’t bring myself to finish the wheel of time. It will just have to sit there.
Reading is fun again. I know because I think about what I would rather do – dink around on the internet, watch TV, or read my book, and the book gets priority; books haven’t gotten priority over the internet or TV in a really really really long time.
This is invigorating to me, because reading truly is the muse for writing. How else do you learn a craft but through apprenticeship? Reading is apprenticing a writer. By reading different writers, you learn how to hone a sentence, proper grammar and punctuation usage, and how to create a voice. Wanting to read is the next step to me wanting to write, which, I’ve learned, is what I’ve wanted to do all along. Remember when you wanted to learn how to read when you were little, maybe 3 years old? I wanted to learn how to write much more than I wanted to learn how to read. But you cannot have one without the other, and my excitement for reading again excites me.
With that, I really have to get to my book.
it got cut off! i went in for a haircut and donated 10″ to locks of love. hence, the hair became SHORT. here’s a pic.
::EDIT:: Reminder: jane owes me $15, and liz owes me $19.22. i wouldn’t care, except i’m poor 🙁
here i am going into graphic-geek mode.
i LOVE photoshop. there is nothing that program cannot do. i love working with the levels, brightness, contrast, the tones in photos, omg. it’s nuts. i just totally made the blah-est pumpkin in the world an awesome thing. love it love it love it! i’ve been working in p-shop for the past couple days, printing my crap to frame. and it just solidifies how awesome it is. program/application of the century goes to p-shop, that thing is darn useful!
i shouldn’t be inside waxing eloquent about wonderful photoshop; i should be outside taking some pictures of spring. but, when a person has to print 56 8×20 prints, ya gotta stay inside.
THE PEOPLE UPSTAIRS MOVED OUT!!! 😀
ok, so my goal was to write more social commentary, but GOOD GOD am i have difficulties with FLASH aka the demon program. it needs to DIE DIE DIE. i spent maybe 8 hours working on this flash project, and i got it done (or so i thought) today. i was ecstatic the thing was finished and i could leave flash alone for another month or so.
NO.
nothing works! ARg. it stops, like it’s supposed to, but i can’t get it to go again when you click on a link. and i made it way too small, that needs to be changed. i am about ready to scream.
so i’m going to start all over, and i want your opinion on the colors/design of the current one. should i keep it? or start totally from scratch with a new design and stuff?
crappy flashy
i know you only see one page and can’t click on anything, but just deal with it. i’m reading my flash book cover to cover soon. this frustrates me to no end. AAAHHH!!!!
my new LJ layout is much more spacious, i kind of like the spaciousness of it. if only i could get the other parts of it to work. 🙁