Harry Potter, New Music and Old Crushes

I have seen peace. I have seen pain,
Resting on the shoulders of your name.
Do you see the truth through all their lies?
Do you see the world through troubled eyes?
And if you want to talk about it anymore,
Lie here on the floor and cry on my shoulder,
I’m a friend.
   ~James Blunt

I went to the library the other week and got a whole bunch of books and some books on CD.  I can’t ever listen to brand new books I’ve never read before on CD, but I like listening to books I’ve already read.  I did this for my Mississippi trip and it made the whole long car ride go much faster.  Anyway, the other day I went to return some books and get some new ones and I saw that they had Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince.  I’ve been listening to it in the car each day and it’s funny, the little things I pick up on as I listen that I didn’t catch the first time around reading.  One particular part really stuck out to me:

"From here on in, Harry, I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher, who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron." 

"But you think you’re right?"  said Harry.

"Naturally I do, but as I have already proven to you, I make mistakes like the next man.  In fact, being — forgive me — rather clever than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger."

And as I was listening to the guy read this part the words, "I hope you’re weren’t wrong about Snape!" came to mind.  I hate Snape, that’s no surprise.  I don’t think Alan Rickman equates Snape and as much as I love the actor (especially after watching Dogma again last weekend and Sense and Sensibility the weekend before), I can’t stand the Snape I read about in the books.  I just hope that there was more to him killing Dumbledore.  Speaking of Rickman, I realized after watching Goblet of Fire on DVD again, that I like him playing Snape.  He makes a great Snape and it’s more of a love to hate when it comes to the movies where as the character of Snape in the books is one that I just plain HATE!

One of the things I did the other week now that I have money to spend again was buy some CDs from Amazon the other day.  They came in today.  So,  this guy  that I wrote about… I found out that he’s in a band and they have released an EP so I had to buy it.  It’s interesting.  I don’t know that I necessarily like it.  Luckily, it was cheap.  There is one good song on there, a clip of which I heard on a web page and thus decided to buy it, but the song starts of great but doesn’t end on a great note.  And this probably makes no sense at all, but he’s what I imagine A to be….and for some reason that freaks me out a little.  I also got the new James Blunt CD.  I love it!  I knew I would.  So far, it’s definitely one of those CDs you can listen to all the way through.  I love it when CDs are like that…I always feel I get my money’s worth when I buy those.

Works going fine.  I have trips the last week of the month and the first week of April.  Should be fun.  Things are going good there and the work is picking up.  And again, I hear nothing but compliments which is a good thing.  There’s one big account that we’re on the verge of getting and once that happens, I will let out a sigh of relief.  Dino is still as cute as ever.  He’ll come over to my desk (I finally moved out of his office to one of my own) and talk to me and tell me funny stories or how he’s doing in school.  He’s so cute and so sweet that it’s hard not to crush on him totally!  I’ve even gotten over the guilt of it.  So what if he’s married?  It’s not like I would ever act on my feelings…though I have to admit that there have been moments when really naughty thoughts have gone through my mind….like closing the door to his office and just jumping him! 🙂  LOL!!  I am definitely not the type of person who will ever act on that so we can all rest assured!