Salazar Slytherin

ugh. through no fault of the day, today was horrible. i woke up sick as hell, and angry about it. stayed in bed way late, and didn't really even want to put clothes on. we did have our confession meeting at 6pm at the house, so i managed to throw something together for that, but aside from that i haven't really done anything today.

you know that feeling you get when you've got a fever and you feel ridiculously hot to the point of sweating, even though it's a perfectly comfortable temperature indoors? that's what i'm dealing with right now. it's not terribly pleasant. i really don't want to call out of work tomorrow, mostly because i can't really afford to, but also because i just don't like doing it. i don't like inconveniencing other people, and i know it would probably do so. blah. i guess we'll see what happens when i wake up.

Regulus Black

today was effectively a non-day. i spent pretty much the whole of it working on a video to be put out tomorrow, and the song that goes with it. it's a wizard rock song, the release of which is sort of inspired by [and/or cashing in on] the release of the last harry potter movie this week. the song is something i wrote about a year ago, and never recorded or even thought much about until quite recently. i wrote another song about angry birds, which i should probably record and release while that game is still relevant. we'll see. anyway, aside from that, there's not much to say. i'll probably be up a while longer, working on the music some more.

Quirinius Quirrell

today was exciting! christin and i both forgot to set alarms, so we didn't get up in time for church. that's not the exciting part, though. we decided to head down to d.c. to catch the contour and hang with some youtube friends. ran into tom and laura, whom i was not expecting to see. a pleasant surprise indeed! got to hang a bit with the people there, and i even got recognized for the first time by someone i didn't know! it was very cool. thanks for saying hi, teri, if you're reading this.

each of the artists played a handful of songs acoustically under a big tree in the national mall, which was about the same as last year but still quite fun. i actually knew most of the songs this time, which made it more enjoyable. mike was great as always, and we even brought the dog, who was a big hit with all of the performers and most of the attendees. good times, good times. we came home and i edited pictures for most of the night, which can be viewed on my facebook or g+ pages. i put this video up, too! love it.

Pansy Parkinson

i'm developing this nasty habit of posting updates two at a time, and i'm not liking that. quite a dull saturday this was, with the exception of a quite remarkable nap after work and hanging out watching better off ted and grey's with christin at night. good times. we still aren't clear on the whole car thing, which is stressful. we're either losing christin's car at the end of august, or we're buying it and keeping it. not sure which one will happen, but it's not our choice, and that's the truly frustrating thing. oh well. that's all, really. not much to say at this time.

Olympe Maxime

day off. didn't feel much like one, for some reason, but rainy days seldom do. it was a pretty big storm, and out of nowhere. it hasn't really come down like it did today for a while, at least to my noticing. 450 was even flooded, which was interesting and annoying at the same time. i woke up and did some graphic design work, which was nice. headed to the post office box, then to the mall to buy harry potter tickets [which we didn't actually end up getting] for part 1 of deathly hallows at 9pm next thursday. exciting!

we had hunan express for dinner, and i probably ate too much, but it was amazingly good. watched a few episodes of 'better off ted' as well, which is a great show. can't believe it got canceled, but i guess i never heard of it until well after it was over, so i can't say i'm terribly surprised about it. we went to becky's house after that and hung out with her, watching some house hunting show. then we watched a few episodes of grey's anatomy and headed back to the house... now it's time to sleep. not the most interesting day on paper, but it was a day none the less. tomorrow is not going to be too much fun. opening on a few hours' sleep. but what else is new?

Nicolas Flamel

sometimes, when i go and open the store at 8:30 in the morning and don't get my first customer until 10:00, i feel like i'm wasting my life. granted, i still got paid for that hour and a half i spent essentially doing nothing, but it doesn't feel right. it's not productive, it's not valuable, and it's not something i enjoy. once again, granted, this can account for a large majority of things people do with their lives, and i'm not alone in this. regardless, i still feel like i should be doing something different. hopefully i will, soon enough.

work was boring, but i got off early. came home and tried to win $100 tickets to hong kong, but that was sort of a bust. i did get cheese logs, though, which were wondrous. i'm such a fatty. we had a good confession meeting where we talked about God's love. it's interesting to talk about it from a reformed perspective, one which teaches it in light of His other attributes as opposed to using it as a starting point and defining it as essentially glorified human love. it's different. it's particular. it's sacrificial. anyway, that's all for now.

Mafalda Hopkirk

the title of this post is probably my favorite name from the harry potter series. i don't know why, but i get it stuck in my head all the time. today i made this in the morning, worked a closing shift, then edited the video at night. it was good times! i also cleaned up a copy of the script and sent it to a potential employer. pray for that, if you think about it. today was a long, tiring day, and i don't really have much to say about it, aside from the fact that i'm quite tired and want to go to bed. and i kind of like my schedule for next week a lot. i have three days off in a row. that's a lot of days!

tomorrow i have to open, which means i should be sleeping right now, but i'm in blogging mode and promotional mode. it's not good to be in promotional mode at 3:41am, because people aren't, like, you know... up and stuff. so no one sees the promotional material. curses! i must repost everything tomorrow, but i have this crazy obsession with getting the 'main promotion' done the day of. well, technically, the day after, considering the video didn't finish processing by the end of 'today.' dumb. dumb, i say! it's time to sleep, i can't stay up any longer.