The Deathly Hallows

…I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!

~Hermione, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by J.K. Rowling

I’ll just edit this this post if I have random news / updates.

I probably won’t be able to update much for a few weeks… I’m having Lasik eye surgery on the 27th (next Friday). For more info on the procedure, you can read this article on Wikipedia.

I’m scared.
*sigh…

But if all goes well, I won’t have to wear eyeglasses anymore.

HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX. So… My mom and I watched it on opening day. It was disappointing. I’ll just repeat what I posted on my other blogs:
I kept waiting for the film to build momentum. *sigh…
It just didn’t evoke the strong emotions I felt when I read the book (heck, I cried when Sirius fell through the veil - and when Harry felt angry, I felt angry too..haha). But I have to applaud Daniel Radcliffe..he’s become such a fine actor. (And I miss Richard Harris. He was everything I imagined Dumbledore to be.) Oh and Evanna Lynch was perfect for the role of Luna Lovegood! I loved how she delivered the lines.

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS. I started reading the book around 9 AM yesterday and finished it in SEVEN hours. hehehe.

No spoilers okay? I don’t want to ruin it for those who haven’t read it yet.
If you reply with spoilers, please put a warning

It was great, great, great! Very, very good ending. I was afraid that the time pressure would take its toll on J.K. Rowling’s writing. But this time I wasn’t frustrated.

Snape turned out to be everything I thought he was (he’s one of my favorite characters)… And Dumbledore..I wouldn’t have expected anything less from him. *grins* And the EPILOGUE… ^_^ hihi. The only thing I’m really sad about is that ._._._._. died. And two other characters I really, really liked.

Thank you to everyone who commented on my last post! I really, really appreciate all of your comments. I’ll return them as soon as possible.

I probably won’t be able to blog much for the next few weeks… I’ll need to rest my eyes and let them heal after the eye surgery.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

~Ambrose Redmoon

EDIT: 31 July 2007, Tuesday @ 10:23 PM
The surgery was successful (I think - I’ll know for sure after three months). I’m having some problems but they’ll probably get better over time. I can’t work (draw, paint, etc.) for longer than two hours and I need to keep using eye drops but other than that, it’s fun being without glasses! Although I do wear protective eye shields (they look like lab goggles) when I sleep and sunglasses during daytime (and nighttime too, actually). Updates on school: I got some of my midterm grades! HARTDS1 - 4.0 - I seriously did NOT expect that - we have a new prof in this class by the way..I kind of miss our old prof | BMAT2-X - 4.0 (I think, if not, it’s probably 3.5) | FREHAND - 3.5 (yay! I really enjoy this class..even though it’s the one that you have to work REALLY hard for - my prof told me that a lot of the guys in our class were really good at drawing but I’m balanced all throughout… She even asked me to bring three of my previous plates on August 21st (I’m not sure what she’s going to use them for though). ^_^ | NATSCA1 - 3.5 (haha! I love this class! My prof’s so cool.) | DESPRIN - my prof didn’t give out our grades yet but I might have gotten a 3.5 or even a 4.0 (she gave me a 100% on my midterm plate) | COLREND - The lowest grade I ever got here is 92% and I got a 99% on my midterm written exam so I probably got a 3.5 | hehe. I just have to “keep up the good work” (as my DESPRIN prof said) so I can maintain my grades until the finals. I really should get around to scanning my work / taking pictures of them. I’m especially proud of the self-portrait I did for FREHAND.

Busy, busy, busybee

All my life I always wanted to fly. I always wanted to live like a hawk. I know you’re not supposed to be jealous of anything, but…to take flight, to soar above everything and everyone, now that’s living. But a hawk is no good around normal birds. It can’t fit in. Even though all the other birds probably wanna be hawks; they hate him for what they can’t be. Proud. Powerful. Determined. Dark. Odin is a hawk. He soars above us. He can fly. One of these days, everyone’s gonna pay attention to me. Because I’m gonna fly too.

~O (2001)

I’ve been so busy lately…

I have so many things to do around Midheaven but I’m going to concentrate on getting all of my upcoming fanlistings up and running. That means I have A LOT of layouts to design and code.

I’m also planning to reopen The Midheaven Cirque which was basically a web directory of sites that are connected in some way to the MH network, either by affiliation with my collectives or personal sites or just by being a fan of me or MH.

Busy, busy, busy… I barely have time to sleep these days.

Sam’s sleeping under my chair again. haha. He’s so sweet. There was a thunderstorm the other day and he was visibly shaking. He was trying to climb onto my lap…he was so scared! Poor Sammy… He’s been on a leash for two days now because he hasn’t been behaving and we have guests. He must have been incredibly bored today while we were out.

Beh, my best friend, bought me a red jacket - which I have yet to see - when she got her first paycheck. Weeeee! She’s so sweet… I’ve missed her so much these past few weeks… She’s really busy with work.

So much schoolwork! I had to do eight plates for HARTDS1 last week - that’s why I wasn’t able to post these past two weeks, the schoolwork just kept piling up - I mean to post at least once a week from now on. I need to work on three plates for COLREND, one major plate for DESPRIN, start my grid drawing (we’re going to enlarge our own portraits) for FREHAND AND study for my midterm exams!

Plus, MIDTERMS ARE NEXT WEEK!

On a happy note, I’m doing REALLY well in BMAT2-X. I have an almost perfect score in the lab component and a perfect score in the lecture component. Yay! I have the highest grade in the class.

HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX! I’m going to watch with my mom, my sister and my cousins. I’m actually looking forward to that more than the movie. My mom isn’t much of a movie-goer. In fact, the last movie she saw in the theater is Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (she read the books before ever watching the movies) and before that, I think the last time she ever went to a movie theater was the first time I ever went to one. haha. I was probably around three or four then.

Edit: My mom and I went to reserve tickets earlier. It’s going to be just the two of us - the others might cancel and we didn’t want the tickets to go to waste.

No time to read. But plenty of time to buy new books. Yes, I’m going broke because of my passion for books. I just can’t seem to help myself.

Neil Gaiman has a new book out, M is for Magic. I’m probably going to get that soon. I’ve won quite a few books on a local auction site. Must settle those first. One of the books I won is A Passion For Books: A Book Lovers Treasury, a book lovers treasury of stories, essays, humor, lore and lists on collecting, reading, borrowing, lending, caring for, and appreciating books. Edited by Harold Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan. Foreword by Bradbury. Umberto Eco’s “How to justify a private library”, dealing with the question everyone with a sizable library is inevitably asked: “Have you read all these books?” Robertson Davies’s “Book Collecting”, on the diference between those who collect rare books because they’re valuable and those who collect them because they love books. Anatole Broyard’s “Lending Books” in which he notes, “I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.”, Gustave Flaubert’s Bibliomania, the classic tale of a book collector so obsessed with owning a book that he is willing to kill to possess it. Anna Quindlen, John Updike and more!
Edit: I’m going to get M is for Magic along with Interworld next Wednesday before or after my mom and I watch Harry Potter.
AND the last HP book… HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS. Just 15 more days to go! hihihi. I reserved my copy way back in February (4th). I was the second one to reserve a copy at that particular bookstore…I would’ve been the first if I hadn’t forgotten to withdraw - I didn’t have any cash with me. haha. Sometimes I feel like I just want to read the last book, just to get it over with.

LSS: still Gin Blossoms. I’ve just been alternating between these five songs: Follow You Down, Hey Jealousy, Til I Hear It from You, Until I Fall Away and Competition Smile. But I’ll be listening to the artists/bands/songs you suggested.

Thank you so much everyone!

Have any of you ever listened to Dishwalla?

Thank you to all the lovely people who commented on my last post! I’ll return your comments as soon as I can. *hugs*

I’ll try to post earlier in the week..around Wednesday or Thursday.

Someone asked me why I hold on, I smiled. What made me fall for him, I stayed silent. They asked me why of all people, I chose him. I answered, “In this world of lies, he’s only the truth I know.”

~Unknown

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