Friday, April 26, 2013

How would you life be easier if you weren't a muggle?

Please enjoy the following ramblings.

First off, Hermione was muggle-born, she became a witch and did quite fine in life. She didn't abuse her magical powers, and she found happiness with Ron.
Second off, if I wasn't a muggle, what exactly would I be? A wizard? A superhero? A super-villain? etc...? Well in Harry Potter, Mrs, Weasley uses spells to help clean the house and dishes.I would use those spells for sure. I would also use potions like liquid luck, because who wouldn't want be automatically lucky for a couple of hours? There are all of the obvious and the very shallow reasons for magic, but eventually life would get boring if you didn't have to work for anything. It is like playing Sims with the "boolprop testingcheatsenabled" cheat on; with this cheat, you can make your Sims basic needs be perfect all the time, gain all the skill points they need, get them any job that is available, make them all the friends they need for promotions, basically everything they need or want. After a little while, playing becomes extremely boring because there is nothing they need to accomplish, and their life becomes purposeless. As in Sims, life has the potential to become meaningless if the magic is over used or misused. It might make daily chores easier, but not having to do real work can really hurt the development of a person and how they interact with society.

I have had the first four books read to me when I was little, but I could never make it through the fifth-seventh novel. I have seen every movie, and our family (my sister) owns every single movie on DVD. We have attempted to do a Harry Potter Movie Marathon, but there are not enough hours in a weekend to eat, sleep, and watch every movie in a row, as well as get other chores done. During the summer, I plan on having a Movie Marathon, and/ or a book series read-through. One of the best series every.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Rainbow Six Prologue

John, the director of the new anti-terrorism agency, Rainbow Six, and his team have just stopped a hijacking on their way to their new base of operations, London, England. Three amateur, Spanish speaking hijackers picked the wrong flight to hijack. Their target was a high ranking person and they found out it was his wife on the plane. They severely botched their job. They are now headed for an Air Force base in Canada to then be escorted back to the states where they will be tried and convicted of terrorism. Although this is a win in the eyes of the passengers and, most likely, the media, John feels it was unsatisfactory because it could have exposed their identities which is not the best thing for a new agency that relies on secrecy and stealth so they won't be compromised for future missions.

Loving the book so far.
Next week I will have read  the next two chapters and will be updating what has happened.

Monday, April 22, 2013

Rainbow Six Update

The nine hundred page novel, still has nine hurdred pages to go. I have been trying to find time to read, but with being sick and working on catch-up work and working on not falling behind, I have not found the time to read this fantastic novel. I am going to try and jumpstart reading this novel and by Wednesday of next week, I am setting a due date of at least the first three (3) chapters. I will be giving a review or check in on whatever I actually read. Looking forward to reading this novel!

Friday, April 12, 2013

Week Before Vacation

The week before vacation always seem to take forever. Everyone is ready for Friday and having no school for nine days in a row. Saturday, Sunday, Monday through Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. And when we get back, we juniors, sophomores and freshmen only have eight weeks left. This year has gone by fast, or what seems to be fast. In actuality it is approximately the same length as last year. 1 year, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,760 hours, 525,600 minutes, 31,536,000 seconds, approximately. Each year seems to tick by faster and faster. It seems like just yesterday, I was about to begin 5th grade and now almost 7 years later, I'm about to end my junior year. What is time? Is it relative? Why does it feel relative? One way of thinking about it is that each year becomes shorter and shorter because each year is a smaller proportion of your life. When people are five each year was one fifth of their life, and when people turn 30 that year was only 1/30th of their life. 1/30th < 1/5th. Each year seems shorter and shorter because it is, in comparison to your entire life. It is funny how each year seems to go by faster, when a week of seven days feels like a lifetime or an eternity. Seven days in the scheme of life is an infinitesimally small amount of time. It is only 168 hours, or 10,080 hours, or 604,800 seconds or 1/52 of a year. It is small in comparison to a lifetime or even a single year. Time is a funky it?  thing. It can fly by when you're having fun, or drag on when there is nothing to do. Time is very mysterious and not completely understood. Is it possible to travel through time?

Time, what is it?

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Week of April 1st

This week is going to be a lot of fun. The senior citizens  show of anything goes on monday, baseball on tuesday and wednesday, opening night of Anything Goes on thursday, friday we have a half day and people in musical get to miss all their classes for the middle school show, we go home and have about five hours to ourselves and then we are back for friday nights performance. Friday is also my first baseball game this season. Saturday we  have another performance as well as on sunday. On sunday after the performance there is strike which is not going to be fun, it will be a lot of lugging heavy lighting equipment down from the catwalks and balconies, and a bunch of coiling a "ton" of cords. we probably have about a mile of cords for only lighting design. this does not include all of sounds cords or the clear communication headset wires. sooo many things are about to happen this week. I am super ready for all of it, suprisingly.