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Nov. 23rd, 2005 05:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spokeGuess what happened to me today?
The Long Night's Trek
This is my Dad changing my tire, after it blew out on the interstate on my way to the mall. I took a few pictures, but I wasn't as concerned with picture quality as I was with learning how to change a tire. Should this ever happen again, I will be able to 'rescue' myself. x.x
Still proud of myself, because when the road suddenly felt driving through gravel and I started to swerve, I also started to go into the waiting thing. First thing I did was pull off to the side, then I got out to see what happened - and the tire?
this is what I saw when I got out
So - instant depressed-ness, checking the trunk to see if I even had a spare tire and a jack, and thinking that I could try to change it? And likely break something. Then I sat there with my emergency lights blinking for a little bit, wishing I had a cell phone and hoping maybe a cop would come along and help me?
The pride comes in, in that it was only a few minutes before I realized what I was doing to myself. Again. It occurs to me that I know this interstate, and I'm not at all far from the exit on 103rd. Where there would be gas stations. Which would have phones. >.> So I drove forward a little ways, so that I was more out of the way and not being shaken slightly by every car that passed. Got out and walked... maybe two miles. Maaybe. I'm more inclined to think one, but having done a good amount of walking before, I've noticed that I'm no good at measuring these things, and seem to think that a mile is this huge long distance. The one stretch that I've walked that ever got measured, I thought was 'a few miles' - in my most generous estimate I thought maybe five.
This was to an old job, before I had my car. When Dad came to pick me up at the end of my shift, he measured it for me. It turned out I'd walked seven miles.
This is rather beside the point. The point being, I made it to the first gas station, which indeed possessed a working phone!
First I tried to call Larry, since even though I didn't want to feel like I owed him anything, I knew Dad would want me to. Larry is closer, after all. Never did get hold of him, but at least I was able to tell Dad I tried. Then I called Dad, waited awhile for him to try Larry just in case, and then settled down outside the gas station to wait. He turns up with the girlfriend, since I caught them doing Thanksgiving grocery shopping, and we all head onto the interstate and in a huge loop in order to get back to my car.
Where I learned how to change a tire, yay! ^^;
Things that have gone unrecorded even though I keep meaning to mention them... over the course of Larry trying to get me to talk to Mom (and a point here is that when Mom showed up after Grandpa's funeral and made an ass of herself being hateful to me, Larry took her side - in their world, I am supposed to take whatever they dish out without complaint, and yet they wonder why I get angry with Larry and I don't want to talk to Mom anymore) and Dad mentioning that they had mentioned this to him and then dropping it. (Bless him) We've ended up talking about various things, (I never realized Dad has never been on a train - it was a tiny shock to know that I've done something he hasn't) and I have noticed how much calmer he is lately. On the other hand, I've been invited to their wedding and I don't want to go; I would feel very weird and possible miserable, and end up being a blot on the event. Still feel bad because I know he wanted me to.
Where this comes into today's events - after he got the tire changed and we returned to the gas station to get some air in it, I finally managed to mention to him that I've noticed this. With no. subtlety. whatsoever. I mean, it was pretty much, "er um I'd just like to say that once you would have been an ass about something like this (meaning having to interrupt his plans) and I wanted to let you know that I have noticed how much calmer and happier you are now. Uhhh."
And yes, I did cuss. No *head* subtlety *desk* auuuggghhh! XD
But he understood me anyway, and appreciated, and there was hugging. ^_^
Then! Rather than letting myself come home and maybe be depressed about my plans getting ruined, I continued with said plans - only, Dad gave me directions on how to get to the mall from where I was, and without using the interstate. Because spare tires are not to be driven on at high speeds. o.o
Got there, got my ticket for the movie, went to Best Buy to do my music hunting since the mall was closed by the time I arrived. Did not find my cd, hurried back when I realized I was going to maybe be late, and stopped to get some coffee and a something to eat - I had no breakfast before all of this because I expected to get something at the mall before the movie. Instead I waited in line behind this unbelievably vain couple who I vaguely noticed seemed to think my being impatient was about them. As if I could not possibly have any place to go, and was fidgety and panicky solely to annoy their ever-so-important-selves. :PPP The guy actually tried to yell at me as I hurried past them on my way to the theater! Seriously yelled, like he thought he could make me stop and accept his verbal abuse by pure volume. O.o
Yeah. Like I even had time. >:P
I think I still missed a tiny bit of the opening, but not much I hope? I came in as the screen was dramatically panning up through the graveyard to the movie's title. I will say that Goblet of Fire is my favorite of the books so far, and I did go into the movie not so much expecting to be disappointed as reminding myself that nothing could live up to the images in my mind - to my dream of Hogwarts. So.
Points of squee, probably out of order:
Neville! Yes I kept looking, 'where is Neville? Where - ahh, there you are' ^^
Portkey! :D Even though I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have been able to talk to each other (nor needed to be able) visually I felt like - that must be what it feels like, the way Harry described it, all spinny and twisty and I'll think just lose my lunch now okay? *green* Wheee! XD
The way a feeling of mad excitement for the Qudditch Cup was conveyed, with all the cheering and the wildness and that they kept in that Ireland's team was cheered for, but it was "Krum!" instead of Bulgaria.
The teasing of Ron about Krum. XD Go Ginny! Go twins and Harry - Harry? Are you flirting with Ron there? XD
The twins! The twins and everything they do and every time they speak, because they are brilliantly twinny!
Neville! ;_; *hugs during the Cruciatus scene* Never mind that's the first time I've ever felt sorry for a spider. Also, Hermione's voice during that. Just... perfect, in that all of it did manage, to me, that tearful/cringy feeling I have when I reach that point in the book.
The Horntail. *.* Yes, it should have been black. But it was, at least, appropriately spiky and menacing and vicious and ooooh, I'd want to work with dragons if I were a witch. *.*
The music is beautiful. Beautiful. I may, in the long run, love the scoring for these movies more than the movies themselves. It so matched how the book feels to me, the growing grandeur and tension. ^_^ Oh yes, I'll be buying this one too. I sat and listened to the credits, you know? Not watched - just listened. ...and hummed along with.
Harry and Cho. XD Poor, poor Harry and Cho. The whole theater laughed when Harry lost his drink because she waved. And the scene in the owlery, although Finch-less, was still wonderfully awkward. o.o Eeeep!
Moaning Myrtle! XD omg. So very canonically perverted. Woot! I liked the stained glass mermaid, too. (Even though she shouldn't have been - she was still neat!) *steals her*
The graveyard scene, in that Wormtail's behavior was mostly right, and nicely creepy/slimy - because Wormtail is slimy. (Or at least I think so ;p) Also Voldemort looking inhuman, and that tiny disturbing glimpse we get of the 'baby'. (Even if his eyes were a bit off :p )
The Durmstrang ship. Wow. *steals that also!*
And the merpeople. That is a bit of *yoink!*, that you see them in glimpses, looking possibly-pretty until Harry gets up close and then O.O I loved that. XD
I also loved Cedric the Shark, scattering merpeople! >:D The look on the one's face is just joy-inducing - I'd totally forgotten he was supposed to do that? Then its expression goes all O.O and I see him, and the squee of recognition kicks in. Shark! :D
It's not quite squee? But what we did see of Rita Skeeter was believably annoying. Ugh.
Points of hiss:
There are so many little things missing that I'm not even going to try going into all of them - probably I've even missed a few, but running through the list of what I noticed : No house-elves, no S.P.E.W, no skrewts (!!!) and Hagrid's teaching in general! >:o , not enough development of Ron and Harry feuding and well, I could on about that, so - things were too rushed. Not enough spells in the maze, not enough Professor Snape! :( And where for the love of little green apples was Snuffles?! Oi! >:/
Not enough Neville, for that matter, and on that note I am annoyed that he was used as a substitute for Winky. Although I can see why they wouldn't want to include a drunken house-elf; I just don't like this tendency to dumb Neville down. >:/ Another example is the gillyweed thing? He'd have adjusted to give Harry the right amount of the stuff and then some, just in case. He also would not have said Harry's full name, he would've just said Harry - and he never would have taken his eyes off the water until he'd seen that he was safe. I like the actor, and think he does a great job considering? I tend to suspect these problems must stem from direction or screen-writing. Might I have the names of those responsible, that I might lock them up in small rooms with the books? Also on that note, that Hermione didn't get them to follow Neville.
Not enough Snape either dammit! I wanted to see him flushing couples out of rosebushes, you know. >:D Not to mention the stuff with Karkaroff was diced.
On that subject, Hagrid and Maxime were not given enough time, the giant issue didn't really come up and that's important later. Also, I didn't think she was pretty enough - though that might just be me? Still. Also, what was even the point of that - did she eat a bug?
And wouldn't it have been nice if that had been Rita? >:)
Rita and Hermione feuding. >:p
I wanted The Parting Of The Ways. I was disappointed not to see that. :(
Crouch Senior? Was portrayed way too sympathetically for my tastes. To my mind, the point of the man is that he's not a sympathetic character - between him and Fudge's behavior, we're supposed to see that not everyone supposedly on the right side is necessarily good.
Moody should have been more fierce and less school-boy, though I suppose we can blame that on Barty? Who might, for all we know, be alive in the movies' universe. 'Nuff said.
Dumbledore... he was too. *thinks* Jittery? Emotional? Violent? A key part of Dumbledore's character is his self-control and restraint. You're supposed to see that he is radiating anger, that his bearing and behavior convey his emotions without getting so physical.
I don't see any reason that they changed the bit about the dragons' being nesting mothers. I can see where they were putting in extra drama with that? But they could've done it by showing us all the champions facing off against their dragons. ...seriously. I'd have gone back a second time if I'd gotten to see all the dragons. I should caveat this with the fact that I do have a thing for dragons. *.* Besides which, the point of having nesting mothers was that it made the trial all the more difficult - they went in knowing these dragons would not move. Maybe it was deemed too cruel? >:P
Speaking of dragons, uhh - where was Charlie?! And Percy!
Nagini? First thing that made me stop and think HEY! Because hello, she is a cobra, not a python. Get your freaking genus right people! >:p *insert rant about the differing shapes of their heads and what, do they we're all idiots here!?* Another thing, she was not in the graveyard. >:/ I suppose we should be glad she showed up at all, huh? Grrr.
...Snape thwaping the boys with a book was actually amusing. Even though I'm not sure he really would? I'm pretty sure he'd want to. XD
More squee!
Still, when all's said and done I did enjoy it, especially the moments that felt right. Moody's classroom and the sudden shift from lighthearted laughing to queasy understanding of how serious he was - of Hermione noticing how Neville was effected. Harry and Cho in the owlery. The moment when Harry's name got called, and Ron's look as he makes his way down. Ack, I almost forgot ferret!Draco - which while a bit off was still good. Only that's always been funny to me, and seeing it that way, and coming off the classroom with Moody and my general sympathetic mood? I've never felt bad for Draco before.
Hermione coming in to the ball, all dolled up and beaming. ^_^ ...for that matter? All the girls - in that just as in the book, suddenly Hogwarts really has a female population! :o And it matters to the boys, where before they were just-girls, and possibly carriers of the dreaded cootie disease. >.>
The Patil twins were beautiful, and by that I mean their facial expressions as well as their looks. They almost didn't need to talk at all, they were that good. *impressed*
Angelina getting asked out via semaphore. XD
Cho. I'd never been able to picture Cho, really. I had an idea, but this was wonderful. And I am the only one who thought her voice was great, too. I kept wanting her to talk more. ^^ Also, am I the only one who thinks that friend of hers who death-glared Harry and Ron, when Harry didn't quite ask her, might be Marietta?
Fleur! Fleur and Gabrielle. :D ...they needed more screen-time. Also it was never mentioned 'ow she is part veela! ...wait, that's what was missing in the Quidditch Cup! (Aside from the actual Quidditch. >:P ) Where are my veela darnit!
And now I've realized that I've been at this for almost two hours and there are other things I need to do tonight. Wow. XD Suffice to say, I obviously made it home - not sure when, I just know it was about 12:30 when I got out of the movie. Then I unwound for a little bit playing with Dusky, who was all sleepy yet sniffly when I came in, as if to say 'You're home! *yawn* Where've you been?' ^_^
Also, have a picture of my kitteh taken without the flash! This is the only one that turned out any good, cropped so as to show Dusky more clearly. ^^ I lured her into the windowsill by dragging her toy along it! I'm soo clever ;p
The Long Night's Trek
This is my Dad changing my tire, after it blew out on the interstate on my way to the mall. I took a few pictures, but I wasn't as concerned with picture quality as I was with learning how to change a tire. Should this ever happen again, I will be able to 'rescue' myself. x.x
Still proud of myself, because when the road suddenly felt driving through gravel and I started to swerve, I also started to go into the waiting thing. First thing I did was pull off to the side, then I got out to see what happened - and the tire?
this is what I saw when I got out
So - instant depressed-ness, checking the trunk to see if I even had a spare tire and a jack, and thinking that I could try to change it? And likely break something. Then I sat there with my emergency lights blinking for a little bit, wishing I had a cell phone and hoping maybe a cop would come along and help me?
The pride comes in, in that it was only a few minutes before I realized what I was doing to myself. Again. It occurs to me that I know this interstate, and I'm not at all far from the exit on 103rd. Where there would be gas stations. Which would have phones. >.> So I drove forward a little ways, so that I was more out of the way and not being shaken slightly by every car that passed. Got out and walked... maybe two miles. Maaybe. I'm more inclined to think one, but having done a good amount of walking before, I've noticed that I'm no good at measuring these things, and seem to think that a mile is this huge long distance. The one stretch that I've walked that ever got measured, I thought was 'a few miles' - in my most generous estimate I thought maybe five.
This was to an old job, before I had my car. When Dad came to pick me up at the end of my shift, he measured it for me. It turned out I'd walked seven miles.
This is rather beside the point. The point being, I made it to the first gas station, which indeed possessed a working phone!
First I tried to call Larry, since even though I didn't want to feel like I owed him anything, I knew Dad would want me to. Larry is closer, after all. Never did get hold of him, but at least I was able to tell Dad I tried. Then I called Dad, waited awhile for him to try Larry just in case, and then settled down outside the gas station to wait. He turns up with the girlfriend, since I caught them doing Thanksgiving grocery shopping, and we all head onto the interstate and in a huge loop in order to get back to my car.
Where I learned how to change a tire, yay! ^^;
Things that have gone unrecorded even though I keep meaning to mention them... over the course of Larry trying to get me to talk to Mom (and a point here is that when Mom showed up after Grandpa's funeral and made an ass of herself being hateful to me, Larry took her side - in their world, I am supposed to take whatever they dish out without complaint, and yet they wonder why I get angry with Larry and I don't want to talk to Mom anymore) and Dad mentioning that they had mentioned this to him and then dropping it. (Bless him) We've ended up talking about various things, (I never realized Dad has never been on a train - it was a tiny shock to know that I've done something he hasn't) and I have noticed how much calmer he is lately. On the other hand, I've been invited to their wedding and I don't want to go; I would feel very weird and possible miserable, and end up being a blot on the event. Still feel bad because I know he wanted me to.
Where this comes into today's events - after he got the tire changed and we returned to the gas station to get some air in it, I finally managed to mention to him that I've noticed this. With no. subtlety. whatsoever. I mean, it was pretty much, "er um I'd just like to say that once you would have been an ass about something like this (meaning having to interrupt his plans) and I wanted to let you know that I have noticed how much calmer and happier you are now. Uhhh."
And yes, I did cuss. No *head* subtlety *desk* auuuggghhh! XD
But he understood me anyway, and appreciated, and there was hugging. ^_^
Then! Rather than letting myself come home and maybe be depressed about my plans getting ruined, I continued with said plans - only, Dad gave me directions on how to get to the mall from where I was, and without using the interstate. Because spare tires are not to be driven on at high speeds. o.o
Got there, got my ticket for the movie, went to Best Buy to do my music hunting since the mall was closed by the time I arrived. Did not find my cd, hurried back when I realized I was going to maybe be late, and stopped to get some coffee and a something to eat - I had no breakfast before all of this because I expected to get something at the mall before the movie. Instead I waited in line behind this unbelievably vain couple who I vaguely noticed seemed to think my being impatient was about them. As if I could not possibly have any place to go, and was fidgety and panicky solely to annoy their ever-so-important-selves. :PPP The guy actually tried to yell at me as I hurried past them on my way to the theater! Seriously yelled, like he thought he could make me stop and accept his verbal abuse by pure volume. O.o
Yeah. Like I even had time. >:P
I think I still missed a tiny bit of the opening, but not much I hope? I came in as the screen was dramatically panning up through the graveyard to the movie's title. I will say that Goblet of Fire is my favorite of the books so far, and I did go into the movie not so much expecting to be disappointed as reminding myself that nothing could live up to the images in my mind - to my dream of Hogwarts. So.
Points of squee, probably out of order:
Neville! Yes I kept looking, 'where is Neville? Where - ahh, there you are' ^^
Portkey! :D Even though I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have been able to talk to each other (nor needed to be able) visually I felt like - that must be what it feels like, the way Harry described it, all spinny and twisty and I'll think just lose my lunch now okay? *green* Wheee! XD
The way a feeling of mad excitement for the Qudditch Cup was conveyed, with all the cheering and the wildness and that they kept in that Ireland's team was cheered for, but it was "Krum!" instead of Bulgaria.
The teasing of Ron about Krum. XD Go Ginny! Go twins and Harry - Harry? Are you flirting with Ron there? XD
The twins! The twins and everything they do and every time they speak, because they are brilliantly twinny!
Neville! ;_; *hugs during the Cruciatus scene* Never mind that's the first time I've ever felt sorry for a spider. Also, Hermione's voice during that. Just... perfect, in that all of it did manage, to me, that tearful/cringy feeling I have when I reach that point in the book.
The Horntail. *.* Yes, it should have been black. But it was, at least, appropriately spiky and menacing and vicious and ooooh, I'd want to work with dragons if I were a witch. *.*
The music is beautiful. Beautiful. I may, in the long run, love the scoring for these movies more than the movies themselves. It so matched how the book feels to me, the growing grandeur and tension. ^_^ Oh yes, I'll be buying this one too. I sat and listened to the credits, you know? Not watched - just listened. ...and hummed along with.
Harry and Cho. XD Poor, poor Harry and Cho. The whole theater laughed when Harry lost his drink because she waved. And the scene in the owlery, although Finch-less, was still wonderfully awkward. o.o Eeeep!
Moaning Myrtle! XD omg. So very canonically perverted. Woot! I liked the stained glass mermaid, too. (Even though she shouldn't have been - she was still neat!) *steals her*
The graveyard scene, in that Wormtail's behavior was mostly right, and nicely creepy/slimy - because Wormtail is slimy. (Or at least I think so ;p) Also Voldemort looking inhuman, and that tiny disturbing glimpse we get of the 'baby'. (Even if his eyes were a bit off :p )
The Durmstrang ship. Wow. *steals that also!*
And the merpeople. That is a bit of *yoink!*, that you see them in glimpses, looking possibly-pretty until Harry gets up close and then O.O I loved that. XD
I also loved Cedric the Shark, scattering merpeople! >:D The look on the one's face is just joy-inducing - I'd totally forgotten he was supposed to do that? Then its expression goes all O.O and I see him, and the squee of recognition kicks in. Shark! :D
It's not quite squee? But what we did see of Rita Skeeter was believably annoying. Ugh.
Points of hiss:
There are so many little things missing that I'm not even going to try going into all of them - probably I've even missed a few, but running through the list of what I noticed : No house-elves, no S.P.E.W, no skrewts (!!!) and Hagrid's teaching in general! >:o , not enough development of Ron and Harry feuding and well, I could on about that, so - things were too rushed. Not enough spells in the maze, not enough Professor Snape! :( And where for the love of little green apples was Snuffles?! Oi! >:/
Not enough Neville, for that matter, and on that note I am annoyed that he was used as a substitute for Winky. Although I can see why they wouldn't want to include a drunken house-elf; I just don't like this tendency to dumb Neville down. >:/ Another example is the gillyweed thing? He'd have adjusted to give Harry the right amount of the stuff and then some, just in case. He also would not have said Harry's full name, he would've just said Harry - and he never would have taken his eyes off the water until he'd seen that he was safe. I like the actor, and think he does a great job considering? I tend to suspect these problems must stem from direction or screen-writing. Might I have the names of those responsible, that I might lock them up in small rooms with the books? Also on that note, that Hermione didn't get them to follow Neville.
Not enough Snape either dammit! I wanted to see him flushing couples out of rosebushes, you know. >:D Not to mention the stuff with Karkaroff was diced.
On that subject, Hagrid and Maxime were not given enough time, the giant issue didn't really come up and that's important later. Also, I didn't think she was pretty enough - though that might just be me? Still. Also, what was even the point of that - did she eat a bug?
And wouldn't it have been nice if that had been Rita? >:)
Rita and Hermione feuding. >:p
I wanted The Parting Of The Ways. I was disappointed not to see that. :(
Crouch Senior? Was portrayed way too sympathetically for my tastes. To my mind, the point of the man is that he's not a sympathetic character - between him and Fudge's behavior, we're supposed to see that not everyone supposedly on the right side is necessarily good.
Moody should have been more fierce and less school-boy, though I suppose we can blame that on Barty? Who might, for all we know, be alive in the movies' universe. 'Nuff said.
Dumbledore... he was too. *thinks* Jittery? Emotional? Violent? A key part of Dumbledore's character is his self-control and restraint. You're supposed to see that he is radiating anger, that his bearing and behavior convey his emotions without getting so physical.
I don't see any reason that they changed the bit about the dragons' being nesting mothers. I can see where they were putting in extra drama with that? But they could've done it by showing us all the champions facing off against their dragons. ...seriously. I'd have gone back a second time if I'd gotten to see all the dragons. I should caveat this with the fact that I do have a thing for dragons. *.* Besides which, the point of having nesting mothers was that it made the trial all the more difficult - they went in knowing these dragons would not move. Maybe it was deemed too cruel? >:P
Speaking of dragons, uhh - where was Charlie?! And Percy!
Nagini? First thing that made me stop and think HEY! Because hello, she is a cobra, not a python. Get your freaking genus right people! >:p *insert rant about the differing shapes of their heads and what, do they we're all idiots here!?* Another thing, she was not in the graveyard. >:/ I suppose we should be glad she showed up at all, huh? Grrr.
...Snape thwaping the boys with a book was actually amusing. Even though I'm not sure he really would? I'm pretty sure he'd want to. XD
More squee!
Still, when all's said and done I did enjoy it, especially the moments that felt right. Moody's classroom and the sudden shift from lighthearted laughing to queasy understanding of how serious he was - of Hermione noticing how Neville was effected. Harry and Cho in the owlery. The moment when Harry's name got called, and Ron's look as he makes his way down. Ack, I almost forgot ferret!Draco - which while a bit off was still good. Only that's always been funny to me, and seeing it that way, and coming off the classroom with Moody and my general sympathetic mood? I've never felt bad for Draco before.
Hermione coming in to the ball, all dolled up and beaming. ^_^ ...for that matter? All the girls - in that just as in the book, suddenly Hogwarts really has a female population! :o And it matters to the boys, where before they were just-girls, and possibly carriers of the dreaded cootie disease. >.>
The Patil twins were beautiful, and by that I mean their facial expressions as well as their looks. They almost didn't need to talk at all, they were that good. *impressed*
Angelina getting asked out via semaphore. XD
Cho. I'd never been able to picture Cho, really. I had an idea, but this was wonderful. And I am the only one who thought her voice was great, too. I kept wanting her to talk more. ^^ Also, am I the only one who thinks that friend of hers who death-glared Harry and Ron, when Harry didn't quite ask her, might be Marietta?
Fleur! Fleur and Gabrielle. :D ...they needed more screen-time. Also it was never mentioned 'ow she is part veela! ...wait, that's what was missing in the Quidditch Cup! (Aside from the actual Quidditch. >:P ) Where are my veela darnit!
And now I've realized that I've been at this for almost two hours and there are other things I need to do tonight. Wow. XD Suffice to say, I obviously made it home - not sure when, I just know it was about 12:30 when I got out of the movie. Then I unwound for a little bit playing with Dusky, who was all sleepy yet sniffly when I came in, as if to say 'You're home! *yawn* Where've you been?' ^_^
Also, have a picture of my kitteh taken without the flash! This is the only one that turned out any good, cropped so as to show Dusky more clearly. ^^ I lured her into the windowsill by dragging her toy along it! I'm soo clever ;p
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