Harry Potter, Inception, And Lots of Craziness

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part two came out today. I wanted to go to last night's midnight showing, but I still have yet to see part one (I know, I know. I'm lame), so it wouldn't have felt right. I'll bet it was a freaking circus, though. I would've loved to see how many people in my teeny-tiny town cared enough to dress up.

I'm so sad to see Harry Potter's saga come to an end. I'm gonna cry when I do finally see it--I know I will. Because this isn't just the end of an amazing story. I grew up with HP. The first movie came out when I was eight. I rushed out to see it with my best friend on opening day and we did the same for every installment to come out afterwards.

Now I'm eighteen, my best friend has moved away, and Harry Potter is coming to a close. It's almost like an official goodbye to my childhood.

But I'll probably still hold on to the hope that my Hogwarts acceptance letter got lost in transit.

 Oh! Guess what happened to me the night before last?

I had a DREAM INSIDE A DREAM!

INCEPTION!!

In the first dream, I was hanging out with a group of people--I don't know any of them, which is kinda weird--at what I think was an amusement park. I vaguely remember being in a wave pool, then getting on a roller-coaster, which is also pretty weird, considering I get a sunburn every time I even THINK of getting in a pool and roller-coasters make me barf.

Then my boyfriend, Travis, woke me up and asked me if I was "enjoying my dream." It's kinda fuzzy, but I remember telling him about the dream I was just having in detail--doing little turns and flips and shizz to demonstrate. (I should've known it was a dream at that point--there's no way I could ever stand flat-footed and do a back flip.)

Suddenly, my alarm clock went off and I realized...

All that stuff--Travis waking me up and asking me about my dream--IT WAS ANOTHER DREAM!

I think it's pretty cool that dream-Trav actually asked me if I was enjoying the dream--as if to say "hint-hint-wink-wink, you're totally dreaming right now." Maybe if I'd been paying attention (and my alarm hadn't gone off), I could've become lucid. Lucid dreaming is consciously realizing you're in a dream, allowing you to manipulate the events and imagery. It's something I've been looking into for a few years now. So far, I've been pretty unsuccessful in actually accomplishing it.

Anywho--about the craziness part. Things around my house have been pretty hectic lately. I won't go into too much detail, but there's some heavy stuff going down and it needs my full attention. I've been stuck on 94k for days now, which means I'm falling way behind with my work. My personal life is really driving a wedge between me and my writing right now, but I'm not too worried about it. Like I said, there's some heavy stuff going on and I need to be dealing with it more than I need to be working.

Hopefully, things will cool off in the coming weeks and I'll be able to get back on schedule. 'Cause I'm still set on getting things done in time to participate in NaNo this year.

Have you seen the new HP flick yet?

Did you enjoy it?

Have you ever experienced Inception?

Is your life feeling as crazy as mine is right now?

 HAPPY WRITING, LOVELIES!