GARGGH

Fine. I did it. I caved.

I read the bloody Atlantis Complex excerpt.

I held out for a long while, but I am very disappointed with my self-control, or lack thereof.

However. It was a good, if infuriating, excerpt.

I was kind of confused, because I can't focus well when I read on a screen, but that will be rectified come August, when I finally get the book.

Things I have learned:

1. I am taller than Artemis by one inch. This I do not like. It seems awkward to me.
2. He has gone mental. Why is he so superstitious? It's crippling him!
3. Adam Adamsson is one of the most unfortunate names I've ever heard, but I hate him, so that's fine.
4. It is true, and B's birthday is Artemis Fowl's birthday (September 1). Too bad she doesn't care. I would care.
5. I don't like how it's called Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex. The only series I know that can pull off the 'and the' is Harry Potter.
6. 'That sounds insane, Artemis realized. Even to me.'
7. I hate Hartemis (Holly/Artemis) shippers. I hate them I hate them I hate them. And this chapter pricked up my Hartemis sensors and made me want to spit poison.
8. Everyone seems different. That is upsetting.
9. 'In spite of their historic dislike for each other'? Trouble Kelp and Artemis Fowl? What?
10. Artemis's attitude is starting to make me hate him. He's doubting himself, blaming Butler, not being smug and snarky. What happened?
11. 'The number gods'? The bloody NUMBER GODS? ARTEMIS! GET A GRIP!
12. '"Foaly is singing," said Holly. "Surely that's illegal?"'
13. Foaly has a foal!
14. "Worry not, lesser intellect."

I am being driven crazy.

"Happy First Birthday!"

You can pretend I'm singing, and that I sound like a chorus of angels. Everyone would like a chorus of angels to sing to him or her on his or her birthday, and my blog is no exception.

Also, Happy Centennial! (Although a centennial usually refers to one-hundred years, I will happily misuse this word in the name of my blog's first birthday and my ONE-HUNDREDTH POST!)

Here's to another year of survival for all, whether I blog during this year or not (predictably enough, most likely not)! Stay in school, kids!

Quote for Sunday, July 18, 2010:

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

-Edward Steichen

(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Birthday)

Muse for Today:

I hope I never grow up, so that I can always appreciate good quotes like that.

Next Blog >>

I have often clicked the Next Blog >> button at the top of the page just to see what comes up. And I need one more post for my ninety-ninth one, so I have decided to write about this experience.

I am actually making a really big deal about this one-hundred posts thing. It's my blog's birthday and my one-hundredth post on July 18th, but so what? They're only numbers, right?

It's actually far too late to take this rational point of view, so! On to my project!

1. http://freeflan.blogspot.com/ (fReE fLan: A Blog About Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Joe Jonas): I saw the heading at the top, and some of my brain cells died. Who, in their right, sane mind, wants to pursue Joe Jonas? Not me. But Taren apparently does. Don't get me wrong, she seems like a lovely person, I guess, but that is one major character flaw. And then I saw the video. My mind flopped and flipped from confusion. I went to the next page, and I really didn't like the blog. But don't take the personally, Taren, 190 other people sure like you. And after that I was done, so I hit Next Blog >>...
2. ...and came to http://3giggles.blogspot.com/ (Always Dream in Vivid Color): A nice, sweetish sort of blog, where a mother takes pictures of her kids and posts them on the Internet. Nothing really remarkable, but it's a nice way to keep up with the family (if you know them personally). I'm sure her 23 followers like her pictures, because they're not bad. I saw the first page, figured that the other pages couldn't be much different, and clicked the next button...
3. ...and showed up here, at this blog http://onelifeonelives.blogspot.com/ (One Life. One Lives... Death Arrives. One Dies) with the cheerful heading. I like the background (ha), and it seems to be an okay blog, although he is an infrequent blogger (but if you look at his blogs, he has thirty-six blogs, so I'm sure he updates at least one of them). Several of them seem to be about cricket, and most of them seem to be about sports. It's an odd blog that sounds something like me, only professional, more mature, and well-written. I'm done here, though it's the best I've seen so far.
4. http://beccaboojones.blogspot.com/ (becca jones: The World Through My Eyes) was my next unwilling destination. Honestly, this blog seems like Taren's future. It's a really, really upbeat, chipper blog, so I kind of hate it, but she just got engaged, so congratulations, Becca Jones! It's one of those day-in-the-life blogs, and it wasn't bad, just EXTREMELY HAPPY, and therefore not my type.
5. The last one, http://wwwpumpkinqueen.blogspot.com/ (The Pumpkin Queen's Halloween Haven!), was really pretty darn wired. This person longs and longs for Halloween, and she needs to lay off a bit. She keeps very close tabs on everything about the American holiday, which is deranged in an inspiring way. Kudos to you, O Pumpkin Queen. I can only imagine how crazy other people must find you.

That was Next Blog >>, a segment which will probably never show up on this blog ever again. Thanks, and good-bye!

Quote for Thursday, July 15, 2010:

YouTube is amazing. And really scary. Just a thought.

-Me

It All Ends Here

WARNING: IF YOU ARE EASILY UPSET BY EXTREME NERDINESS, HATE HARRY POTTER, BOOKS, AND MEMORIES AND/OR ARE A TWILIGHT FAN, DON'T READ THIS POST.

HOLD ON. IF YOU'RE ANY ONE OF THE ABOVE, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? ACTUALLY, YOU'RE PROBABLY VERY UPSET ALREADY, SO JUST GO AWAY.

The post starts...now.

LOOK AT THIS. Just look at this.

Fine. Blogger is being stupid, and you can't look at this. But here, I am going to make this link all linky and then you can.

AARGH. Look at...ah...this.

THIS, my friends, is the NEW POSTER for the FIRST PART of the SEVENTH MOVIE that comes out in NOVEMBER but now doesn't seem so far away.

I am mistaken in my assumption that everyone I know has the same level of Harry Potter furfling fangirliness as I do. (I am just making up words like anything today.)

The last movie is coming out in July of next year, and I am for sure going to overestimate how far away that really is. Next year.

When I finally grew up and properly discovered the Internet and realized that (internal gasp) other people in the world like Harry Potter too (and, for some reason, all of them are on the Internet!), I was kind of surprised at how well all of this was going. I didn't even know about all of the Pottermania until well after 2007, and once I did, I half-wondered why everything didn't just dry up after Deathly Hallows.

It was the movies, mostly. The fact that there were actors to interview and movies to see and directors to criticize made it all almost..okay, I guess. At least, it did for me once I puzzled all of this out. (Which didn't take that long. Because I am a prodigal genius who enjoys telling lies about myself, like about the fact that I am a prodigal genius.)

And that was fine, because at that point the Half-Blood Prince movie hadn't even come out.

But now NOVEMBER 2010 is staring me in the face and I felt very, very sad.

Especially after seeing this.

The Magic Begins and It All Ends Here.

I grew up with these books, and while I believe that I would still really read, I do not think that I would appreciate books as much as I do had I not read them.

As utterly stupid as this sounds, I remember the first time that I held the hardback copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and how much hope I had, and how bittersweet everything felt when I was done.

Will the movie feel the same as it did with the book? I don't think so, but I know that I am going to be very upset when this is all over.

Giving Up

I have three more posts until the 99th post, and all I can think about is how little I have to actually say.I mean, yesterday was Independence Day here in the U.S., but honestly what is there really to say about that I mean really there's nothing right okay.

And I did randomness when I was tired and that was a fiasco that I am not willing to repeat.

So what?

I can do pictures. This particular picture is from here.

But is that really worth it?

I can do hyperlinks- no, wait. I did that the other day, didn't I? (shudder shudder)

More pictures!

I give up.

Quote for Monday, July 5, 2010:

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

-W.C. Fields

(http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_funny3.html)