Thought for the Day

Remember how I told you all about how I have fun roommates? Yeah, well, we are REALLY fun, especially when Milanne (my room roommate) and I stay up until 3:00 a.m. making crazy videos on her web cam. They were so funny (you can find them on YouTube, if you search for Thought for the Day #1 or #2)! Speaking of roommates, I am incredibly lucky because my roommates are awesome. We get along so well: we all have pretty much the same sense of humor, we love watching movies together, most of us are pretty good readers (and so I have a whole new source of books), and we are all crazy. We have so many adventures at our dorm, and it makes life oh so interesting.
To be honest, I'm kind of nervous about my next batch of roommates (although I'm not too nervous because two of my roommates are going to be living in the same apartment with me in the Fall/Winter)...

So, basically, I STILL hyperventilate whenever I think of HP 6

Yes, I know I'm going to get grilled for this post. So please, be kind when you comment.

I LOVED HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE! There, I said it. Hate me if you will, but I thought HP 6 was THE best movie in the series so far. It was so much lighter in content than the other movies, which I really enjoyed because, really, you can only take so many intense action sequences. I have to say that I think my favorite part was when Harry drank the liquid luck. Daniel Radcliffe was so good, and I just ate those scenes up! Also, I loved the way they directed Hermione's crush on Ron, and Harry's crush on Ginny, and how Herimone and Harry's friendship grew so much. Overall, David Yates, the director, did so much better with HP 6 than he did with HP 5 (which we all know was terrible; although, I admit, he didn't really have much to work with).

I have three issues with this movie:
*SPOILERS AHEAD*
1) The relationship between Harry and Ginny began WAY too early in my opinion. And the whole Harry and Ginny scene in the Room of Requirement--WAY over the top. Although, I must say that Ron's use of a double meaning right after Harry and Ginny almost make-out was CLASSIC!
2) Bella burns down the Weasly house at Christmas--What was THAT all about?
3) And where the heck was the epic battle at the end?!
That being said, I still get chills just thinking about how AMAZING this movie was.
*Sorry for the excessive use of all-caps; sometimes, it's the only way an emotion can be expressed.

Obama's Pennies

This is mostly for Maddie because she hates Obama with a passion, and she will feel vindicated when she sees this.
It's also for Chelsey because she's super smart when it comes to economics, and I know she will appreciate this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWt8hTayupE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJu0DgpiK8c&feature=related


*I tried to embed the videos, so I wouldn't make you do more work than you have to (and so my blog would be that much cooler), but Blogspot is hating on me today, so I'm afraid you'll just have to click on the links. But please click on the links; the videos are pretty awesome.

Total Bragging Rights

Ok, so I'm going to inflict the total bragging rights of a Freshman in college who just got her first essay back.

As I intimated, I just got my first essay back from my English professor (the one that looks like Matthew Fox--I'm going to say that every time I mention my English :D ) today, and I would just like to say that I did pretty much amazing on my first essay. :D My professor had me a little freaked out because he started out by saying that only two people in the class got an A on their paper, most people got Bs, and a few got Cs. Knowing me, I kind of freak out over my grades (which is not a bad thing), and I think I'm totally horrible at pretty much anything I do (which really is a bad thing). So, clearly, I immediately thought that I was one of those people who had a big fat C on their paper. It was an amazing surprise when my professor had me a sheet of paper with two comments. "Great job on the op-ed. You nailed it!'

So the end of the story is that I got an A. Yay for Ashley!