yesterday i went to science world with janice, kas, and nigel. it was supposed to be the whole group but that fell through. nigel and janice were all pessismisstic and i felt bad because i was showing science world to kas for the first time. so bleh to them. then we went shopping on main and kas and i wanted coffee and so we went into cuppa joe. right, so nigel and janice don't want any and so they're like “okay you can catch up.” i didn't see them again.

kas and i had fun though. we got all these materials at Urban Source on main street for my sister's birthday present. we got these pillars and these cork candle holders and this gold accent stuff and paint and ribbon accents. i'm gonna make her roman-esque candle holders!

then kas and i went for a virgin strawberry margarita.

The Movie Review:
(jen you've already seen this)

I go in expecting it to be mediocre. I didn't expect it to live up to the book but considering the facts, they did a pretty good job. Sometimes, its unfortunate, but they had problems explaining things. Some parts I couldn't remember from the book until they did half of it on screen. Like the hole in the Whomping Willow. How Lupin knows how to imobolize it (and that they planted it his first year – although those kind of things are difficult to include). Why exactly Peter Pettigrew is an animagus, and Sirius. Regarding the Firebolt – why and how Sirius sent it. Who Prongs, Padfoot, Mooney and Wormtail are. And yes, Harry's stag patronus. I liked Gary Oldman as Sirius.

I think it did a good job of the secrets. Not the best but it's a lot easier to show something in writing than it is in pictures. In writing you control exactly what the reader is seeing. You want the wind to be blowing? You mentioned it in writing. If you show wind on screen, chances are, over half of the people aren't going to notice it.

They made things really obvious with Hermione's watch, and really played up the Ron/Hermione thing, but I think it's just a focus of subplots. The movie, book too, would be boring if it was just 'One day Harry got into trouble, Harry talked to Dumbledore, Harry solved the problem.' It's more intriguing when there is deceit, and shady characters, and blackmail, and near-death experiences!

I will be returning to this to cross off one’s I’ve read and to add more. Any suggestions? Not like I need any – but I’m trying to read classics… so if you can think of any MAJOR classics that I’m missing – tell me. I could possibly have already read them! It’s doubtful but take a look! Tell me what you think!

• The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Macbeth by Shakespeare
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
• 1984 by George Orwell
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
• The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolfe
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• The Hours by Michael Cunningham
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
• The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
• The Odyssey by Homer
• The Iliad by Homer
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The Three Muskateers by Alexandre Dumas
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Pirates! by Celia Roees
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• The Murder Room by P.D. James
• Misery by Stephen King
• Rape of the Lock by A. Pope
• Gullaver’s Travels by J. Swift
• White Oleander by Janey Fitch
• Shes Come Undone by Wally Lamb
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Emma by Jane Austen
• The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
• The Shining by Stephen King
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• 20,000 Leages Under the Sea by Jules Verne
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• To Have and Have Not by Earnest Hemmingway
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Old Man and the Sea by Earnest Hemmingway
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
• A Farewell to Arms by Earnest Hemmingway
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton