Happy Birthday Harry

Guess what day it is...

It's Harry Potter's Birthday!

Eleven years ago, I celebrated his birthday with some of my best friends from Junior High. It was sort of a last big hurrah before we all headed off to different high schools. We came in costume, did trivia (at the time, I knew the exact number of staircases in Hogwarts), and played Quidditch. It was grand. I would post a photo of it for you, but I don't have one. Good thing too. I looked incredibly awkward. 

I love Harry Potter, and I'm so excited to be able to read it with my kids someday.

Thanks to Jessie for showing me this video almost a year ago.

P.S. This song is featured in the new Step Up movie. Which I'll talk about Friday. Maybe.

Story of My Life

I went to Band of Horses last night instead of watching baseball with Bill Murray. I'm going to be positive. The concert was enjoyable about 30% or the time. 

Also, this video sums up my life at present.

A Poem for Thursday: "I am so small" - Rumi

I am so small I can barely be seen.

How can this great love be inside me?

Look at your eyes. They are small,

but they see enormous things.

I can't accept this

Let's be honest. There are some really big problems in this world right now. And I really think we need to re-evaluate the way we deal with social isolation, violence, and guns in American society.

But those topics make me tired.

So instead, here's is another pressing problem in my life.

I fell in love with Oberhofer about year and half ago.

This is the song I fell in love with:


And this is what it turned into:


Ignore the video; it's alright.
The way they changed the song is what's killing me.

The first version was so rough, fuzzy, and anxious.
The second is slicked-up, hip, and confident.
I hate it.

GUYZ
Y IZ LYF SO HRD?!?!


Right now, I'm listening to the rest of the album on Spotify, and it seems. But I wish I knew what it was like in it's original state. 

I'm seriously in mourning about this. I think I have problems.

Happy Pioneer Day

Hope you have a good one!

“There was another life that I might have had, 

but I am having this one.” 

― Kazuo Ishiguro

Role Model

My feeble attempt to postpone adulthood is almost over. I'm halfway through my VISTA year, which means that I need to have a plan to help me be an adult. I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.

Actually, that's not true. 

I would like to be either Beyonce:

Or this kid who is an awful lot like Beyonce:

But those options aren't very realistic.

Ideas?