i have recently started reading the harry potter series (and by that i mean i started on them last wednesday and i’m already halfway through the fourth book. could’ve finished it already if there hadn’t been that pesky thing called work and the sudden return of the desire to check facebook every fifteen minutes.). for a long time i wasn’t allowed to read or watch them, and then after a while it wasn’t that i wasn’t allowed, i just didn’t have an interest. so then halfway through my freshman year of college i decide that i’m going to read them all for the first time and see all the movies for the first time, excepting of course when i saw chamber of secrets on t.v. once. i really like them, but feel like i’m getting a little bit of a late start on this. most of my harry potter fan friends have been reading them for what seems like forever, although i know it can’t have been before, what, 1999? that’s still a long time.
i feel like i am always jumping in late in the game. i know sometimes it isn’t my own fault – i still feel the tiniest bit deprived and like a bad fangirl for only getting into lord of the rings when return of the king came out, but then, i was eight when the first one came out. i make up for this lack of lotr-hardcoreness by reminding myself that i have now been waiting for the hobbit to come out for at least seven years, and will continue to follow it until i die. probably. i still get warm fuzzies when i see old pictures of the lotr cast online. THEY WERE SO YOUNG AND CUTE THEN.
i’m sure you were looking for something sweet and heartwarming to make you love your family more or remind you of the true meaning of christmas or inspire you to actually follow new year’s resolutions etc etc etc, but as you can see, we don’t have any of that here. here we have real life and crazy thoughts and one girl with the ability to write about whatever she darn well pleases (even if that includes a lack of proper capitalization and a severe lack of substance).
therefore i see it only proper to wish the world a very, very, happy Christmas Eve and the very best Christmas Day.
much love,
Shan
