A few things

[jenepel]

I have been totally obsessed with Literati fanfic this week - not sure why.  It's been ages since I read any, but then I watched the ep where Luke and Rory go to see Jess at Truncheon and I got all obsessed with "what if she hadn't said all that about Logan and they got together again" and started looking up stories, and then there we were...

I FINALLY saw OoTP last night.  I was actually a little disappointed, probably mostly because I just reread the book this week and also people kept saying really good things about the movie.  I think my expectations were a little high.  I want to write out a proper response to it but don't have time right now.  My main complaint?  NOT ENOUGH GINNY.  She's my absolute fav and she really comes into her own in that book, but they didn't show that at all.  It's a crime.

They have just announced the release of the full series DVD set for GG (here) and I am not happy with the artwork.  I've waited for ages not buying the DVDs (ok I had the downloads, but still) and then they change the artwork for the full set?  I reserve judgement til I have seen it in person, but it doesn't look promising!  It looks kind of tween-ish to me, and I quite liked the season sets.  BAH humbug!

I saw a mouse in our flat today.  Seriously, a mouse.  It ran across the floor and into a hole in the wainscotting.  I didn't scream or anything though, just calmly watched it go and then went downstairs to tell my flatmate.  I mean what can we really do about that?  Traps?  It's such an old house and there are several flats here, so I can't see it really happening.

My trip to Atlanta has hit an interesting complication - I may be going sooner than I thought.  I was supposed to fly out on Wed but now I might leave on Sun to deliver stuff for work to an office there for a trial that starts Monday.  They are all going crazy about it getting there on time and then suddenly someone remembered I was going and an idea was born.  It only remains to be seen if they agree to pay the $860 (I KNOW) that it would cost to change my ticket.  Insanity.  I hope so much it works out though, because although I am not remotely ready, I would get travel comp and also work hours for mon/tues since I was supposed to work them anyways.  Plus I would get three more days of holiday - fantabulous!  Does anyone live in Atlanta btw?  I keep meaning to ask people and posting it but no one seems to.  What's up with that?  Also I will be in Colonial Williamsburg for two days for a wedding.  Should be interesting...

I just have to end by saying HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY TO OLIVER - only the cutest baby in the world!  He's my little (unofficial) nephew and he's such a sweetie.  Picture under the link.

Comments

[adinarj.livejournal.com]

Awww! Cute baby!! And who's that with him?

I hear you on the Lit fic thing. About a month or so ago, I was trying to read everything I could get my hands on. Some were a little work-inappropriate, but it was okay. Have you read everything on BWR? I want to recommend Greater Than, a post-6.18 fic, and "After All" which is also on BWR, but I don't have link.

[jenepel.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recs - I'll check them out.

Yeah that's me - but you've seen a pic already, right?

[dippersbaby.livejournal.com]

OK...being the Harry Potter fan that I am, I went at midnight on release day to see OoTP. It is my fave book (so far) and I have to say I loved the movie, but I also agree with you. Ginny is my favorite character as well, and I loved how JK was setting her up in OoTP to be the ONLY one Harry could possibly fall for in HBP...but you don't get to really see that in the movie. Oh, well...the movies can never fit in all the aspects of the books, they would be 10 hours long each. Especially all 870 pages of OoTP.

And Oliver is adorable!

[jenepel.livejournal.com]

This was the first one where I didn't go to the midnight showing the night before, so that was actually really weird for me. What's even stranger is that there weren't any true midnight showings here. The first showings were at 9:30 AM on the 12th, so of course I was at work. You could go at midnight on Thurs night, but isn't the point of it to be the very first people to see it? And then life just somehow conspired so that I couldn't see it til Wed, but the wait did almost kill me! I did go to the premiere in Leicester Square though - and the girl playing Ginny did a long interview, so I was really hopeful for her part.

I'm way more excited about the last book though. I will, of course, be picking it up at midnight tonight. And it's also getting delivered by Amazon the next morning, just in case. I'll give the extra copy to my mom's library!

[adinarj.livejournal.com]

I was going through my flash drive earlier and I found some stock images that I'd downloaded of little kids that could be the Weasley kids. Really cute. I'll have to upload them to Photobucket and post them just to share.


Oh, and sorry for the spam tonight. I'm just going through your "GG" tag.

[jenepel.livejournal.com]

So are you saying Oliver looks like a Weasley? Maybe in this pic, but not the rest of the time for sure! Or did you just do kid picture = thinking of kid pictures? :)

Oh yeah, and I guess this entry also talks about HP.

[adinarj.livejournal.com]

You were talking about OOtP and the fact that there wasn't enough Ginny.

[jenepel.livejournal.com]

Yeah I realised that after I reread the comment, that's why I edited in that last line. I was too lazy to completely rewrite it though!