Goblet of Fire, Weekend, Workday
This will most likely be a long and rambling entry. Sorry in advance.

Mornings....
Ugh. I am currently excessively urpy. I feel like I'm going to be sick. I think it's the whole my-body-revolts-at-mornings thing. I got up and my stomach immediately was off. And it's just getting worse. Blah. I hate mornings. More then that, I hate how poorly my body responds to schedule changes and how sick I get when I get up early and how it simply will not just get used to it no matter what I try. It's been a problem for my entire life. I quite simply get ill from being on a "normal" schedule. I stay sick until I revert back to my normal. It's just something that most people can't understand. But think about how badly your body would respond to getting up at say, 2am to start your day.

Anyway, I'm trying my best to smile and not vomit. I'm here today and tomorrow and a half day Wednesday. Then another full day the following Tuesday. The money will help but it's just so hard to verbalize how hard of a toll it has on me physically. At home, on my own schedule, and being able to lay down when I need to, most people don't see my chronic pain issues. They don't see the IBS. And my migraines are managable. But violently shift my schedule, screw up my sleeping, my access to facilities when my stomach gets grumpy and stick me under florescent lighting for eight hours and well...my house of cards comes tumbling down. I don't look "sick" or "unhealthy" so people don't believe it's possible that I am.

Eh. Enough of that. It doesn't do any good to complain I guess. (Which, is actually another reason people don't believe the chronic nature of my issues. I tend to just live with them quietly.)

Harry Potter and the Quest for Tickets
This weekend, I (and millions of other people) wanted to see Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in theaters. I still have two movie tickets from my Blinkgo wins and they're not good at our normal multiplex. (AMC) So when I look at the places around here I can use them at, the IMAX is one of them. Cool, I think. We'll see it there! Yeah, apparently like every other person in the entire region thought so too. They were sold out every single show on Saturday when we arrived. They were also sold out every single show for Sunday. Well, so much for that. But I was really bummed. I wanted to see it. I didn't want to wait until the following weekend. So we caved and hit the AMC anyway. The show was 7:45pm. We got there around 6:15pm anticipating there would be a lot of crowding. I'm very picky on where I like to sit, so we always have to get there early to get in line. What I wasn't expecting an hour and a half early was like a hundred people already in line ahead of us! Worked out ok though. It was one of the gigunza theaters (yes, that's a real word. Honest. ) so we got the seats we wanted. I packed an assortment of the 24lbs of candy we got at Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party so we had plenty of treats.

Thoughts on Goblet of Fire
Ok, so first off, I liked it. And I definitely liked this director better then the last one. (I'm sorry, but I really, really disliked him and his vision of the HP world. And I hated some of the large and important things they cut out.) Anyway, this one I liked more. But I did have a few complaints. Most of them are the same thing I'd read from a few others already. They blew through the World Cup far too quickly. It wasn't the massive event that it should have been. It was also odd that Molly wasn't in it at all. And that Arthur was barely in it. (He also didn't look like how I envision Mr. Weasley but eh, that's me.) The story was also a little hurried. It was kinda rushed. I realize it's because of how much they had to cram into the movie, but...it felt a little breathless of a pace. The writing had a few rough spots I thought but it was obviously because they were trying to include more then they could show. Like after Harry gets the egg and Hermoine is on the bridge with him, she says, "But you told me you figured it out weeks ago!" It just sounded like it came out of nowhere. Having read the book, I realized it was a nod to that whole subplot of the challenge of the egg, but from a movie-only perspective, it felt like it just kinda came out of nowhere.

Those were all minor peeves though. The only major problem I had with it was Dumbledore. They made him FAR too angry, mad and hostile. He's none of the above. He's calm; he's serene. He is both childlike and posesses a wisdom born of long years. But he wasn't any of those in this one. When he grabbed Harry and shoke him, asking if Harry'd put his name in the Cup, ugh. It was frightening. You thought he was going to hurt Harry. It didn't come off that he was terribly frightened for him, it came off like he was pissed.

All-in-all though, it was quite good. And it felt more oriented to the readers of the books then the others in my opinion. Not in a way that made it unaccessable to the non-reader, but just like small nods of more inside references.

Did I mention it's on crack though?

*hums*

Well, I guess that's it. Days like this, I remember how lovely my iPod is. I've got it plugged into the pc speakers here and have, what, three days worth stored on here? And I'm only using like 5 or 6 gigs of my 20 at the moment. It's great.

Mkay, out for now I guess. I've got some mail to sort. Not that it'll take long but might as well get to it.

TTFN.

~ change comes to :: miss m :: at 11/21/2005 10:37:00 AM ~ ~