I got some revisions done on HoS this morning, and heck fire, I might even do some more this evening. The first chapter didn’t need much, but halfway through the second chapter I have to start completely rewriting a relationship which will be more fun and deeper and more complex for the rewrites, but it does mean lotsa revising. Rewrites are hard! Let’s go shopping!
Deirdre made Mom and Dad an offer they couldn’t refuse: if, she said, they would babysit for her while she and Gavin went to see Harry Potter, Deirdre would in turn babysit for Mom and Dad while they went to see Harry Potter. For some reason they agreed to this arrangement. :) So Deirdre and Gavin and I went to see Harry Potter, which I think is the best of the movies so far, and which made a better movie than it did book, in large part because they cut all the things from the movie that they ought to have cut from the book. It is no longer “Harry Potter and the Summer Vacation at the Quiddich Match and Now That We’ve Had Some Fun and Got That Out of the Way, the Goblet of Fire”; it’s just Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Much better. It also seemed more intense than the book, possibly because of the aforementioned summer vacation problem. It was still too long, which was hugely compounded by a *half hour* of commercials and previews before the show (and there were only three previews). The showtime was 1:05 and we left the theatre at 10 to 4. Jesus. :P
We walked back to Deirdre & Gavin’s place from Dun Laoghaire, which is only a mile and a half or two miles or so, along the coast, and it was beeeooooteeful. The water in Dublin Bay is clear, which is very strange and surprising to me, and the sun was setting and it was altogether lovely.
Tomorrow afternoon I believe I shall take myself out for a walk and see what places I can find around the city centre. Like the comic shops, and Forbidden Planet, and whatever else strikes my fancy. :)
miles to Mount Doom: 233