Ok, the cheap movies haven't been $1.50 for a long time, but still. It is Tuesday.

I am off to the 10:30 showing of Wonder Woman at metro with the youngest offspring.

I mean, ok, yes I already went to the earlier showing before she came home from work, but I'll make the sacrifice. I can't have her feeling left out and it's cheap seat night...

OMG it is awesome you guys!!!

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I got a plot in my community garden this year. I planted some seedlings in mid-May.



It's only been a few weeks and it's growing strong.



Today, I harvested some Swiss chard, arugula, parsley and spinach.



I made chard rolls for dinner - mm, tasty.



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Yay Friday! Also, new beer to try.

In keeping with the Harry Potter theme I've had recently, I picked up something called Witches Brew.



22 IBUs, and none of the overpowering grapefruit flavour of too much hops. It's nice... a little toasty on the on the finish. I like this one - it's would be great with pub food, burgers, steaks. It's can hold its own. I'll buy it again

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So, I'm looking forward to the Harry Potter concert next month, and since I don't have time - or enough black fabric - to make myself wizarding robes, I'm going to go for a t-shirt and wear my time turner.

Question: which shirt should I wear?






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Because yam dared me to sort the SGA. Pfft. Now of course I have to. I don't think it's at all difficult to place them.

It is absolutely clear to me that McKay is Slytherin through and through. Yeah, could have been Ravenclaw, obvs. But way too much ambition and self preservation in that one.

I dare you you to try and place Sheppard anywhere but Gryffindor. "The Gryffindor house emphasises the traits of courage as well as daring, nerve, and chivalry" Sound like anyone we know? I'd have to say Ronan and Teyla fall squarely in that house as well.

I think Radek presents as a Ravenclaw on the show, but he is often written in fic as a Slytherin, which kind of makes sense, both to hold his own with McKay and because he was a product of the cold war era Soviet Union. The whole sneaky, czar of the Atlantis Black Market vibe suits him.

Elizabeth strikes me as a Ravenclaw. She is clearly facinated by learning for the sake of learning.

Carson might have been Ravenclaw, but he had a great deal of Hufflepuff about him too. Hard call really.

Keller as a Hufflepuff - pretty sure she worked her ass off to get a plum assignment like Atlantis at her age.

Agree? Disagee?

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So, dovetailing nicely with my recent Harry Potter obsession, the VSO is doing symphonic accompaniment with the Harry Potter movies. I missed Chamber of Secrets, but I just saw that the tickets were on sale for Prisoner of Azkaban, so I bought some.



Decent seats too! There was nothing left in center orchestra or dress circle, but I got some in right orchestra, right on the aisle. The Orpheum is a pretty good venue as long as you aren't at the back of the mezz.

I find myself wondering if Tom Felton will show up for this like he did for the last one. I cracked up at the instagram pic he posted - it was like Draco and Zabini, slumming with muggles.

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I was replying to a comment from popkin16, and then I realized, hey, this is exactly what I wanted to post about.

I finally finished my re-watch this week with Deathly Hallows Parts 1 & 2. Now, since I have been reading so very much HP fanfic in the last few months - and of course, different writers have very different views on who Lucius, Narcissa and Draco are and what is going on in their heads - I found myself paying careful attention to who they were on the screen. I think I got a lot more out of he movies this time than when I first watched.

Draco, for instance... I didn't really see his reluctance the first time round. I had him pegged as this whiny coward, very two dimensional. This time he seemed to have so much more substance to him. He was clearly conflicted, posturing as though he was proud and defiant, but actually regretful and quite terrified. I think I kind of glossed over Harry telling Ron and Hermione that no, Draco was lowering his wand, he wasn't going to kill Dumbledore - that really changed the flavour of all the future appearances of Draco for me. I loved it when Harry confronts Draco, demanding to know why he didn't tell at the Manor when he clearly *knew* it was Harry, and how Draco stumbles over that and that it's actually his friend that goads him on and pushes it into violence. It was painful watching Draco reluctantly cross the courtyard at Hogwarts to his mother and father - he didn't want to, but he didn't feel like he had a choice. I didn't *see* this Draco the first time. I see him now.

And Lucius. I don't think I noticed how disheveled and terrified he looked when Voldemort was in the manor, when Voldy took his wand, when he berated him. For the first time I saw a man who was coming to realize the full depth of his folly, the meaninglessness of wealth and position in the Voldemort hierarchy when it meant his family was at risk. He wasn't any less of an arrogant, bigoted racist, but he grokked the evil in a way he never had previously - mostly, I think, because now he had a son being affected by it.

So. Yeah. So very interesting. I think I could read volumes on the post war Malfoy family coming to terms with everything. Oh wait - I AM!!

In other news, it is Friday and there is beer in my fridge, calling my name. I've got a new one to try, from my favourite Geek Nerd Brewery, Fuggles and Warlock. With a motto like "Keeping Beer Weird", it's hard to go wrong. Today, I'm trying a seasonal wit called The Last Mango. I love their strawberry wit, so I am anticipating this will be nice as well.

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I think the hardest thing about taking a couple days off is how unbelievably LOOONG the next week feels.

( Worky, worky, worky...Collapse )

In other news, I ended up on the freaking board of directors again. ( WTF is wrong with my brain?Collapse )

The boy child is done at school. Today was the last day - he has officially completed the software developer course. His team did an industry project for Hootsuite, which he was pretty excited about. Also, during the last week of his course, he was creating some kind of online game as part of a job application for some local tech company - considering he had a week to build and deploy while he was working on his industry project, I was pretty impressed he got it out the door before the cut off. Even if they don't get back to him, it's something else impressive on his github page.

I'm still working on the HP movies. I re-watched Order of the Phoenix with the middle child last night. I wanted to smack Fudge. Luna made me happy - she really is a delight. I was incensed on Harry's behalf when he finally lost it and yelled at Dumbledore to look at him. I laughed so much at the Weasley twins antics and hissed with rage at Umbridge. How much do I adore these movies? THIS MUCH!

I'm tired. I should sleep, but what I'm probably going to do is read HP fic until 5 am and then sleep in ridiculously late. Then coffee. Then I HP marathon Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hollows 1 & 2. It's been really good re-watching the movies after reading all this fic. So much stuff from the books ends up in fic, and it's made things I never noticed before pop out. I'm going to be sad to be done.

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Gah. Started the day with 160+ unread emails and a weekly project meeting with a dozen questions on updates that I don't have yet. Yargh.

Well, at least it's not boring!

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I just checked my work email. Which, I know, I should not do when I am off, but there it is.

I have 117 messages, some of which are high importance.

Do I leave them, because I BOOKED MON-WED OFF, DAMN IT! Or, do I log in and answer some of them, knowing full well that if IM shows me online, I am going to have people pinging me left, right and center, so I can save myself the headache of the insanity that Thursday and Friday will become?

The struggle is real.

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