Kyra Moon

Warning: If you want to see the movie, don't read this. So, I kind of feel like the only person in my news feed on Facebook who doesn't have some synonym of the word "awesome" followed by several hundred exclamation points to describe the Harry Potter movie. And I feel like a cynical, horrible person for this. Don't get me wrong, I liked the movie. The first 100 minutes of it, at least. But then . . . I don't know. Was I expecting the illustrated version of Harry Potter and that's why I'm disappointed? Well, maybe. It's just such an epic ending. Full of Christian themes and triumphant battles even after they thought Harry was dead and gripping conversations between Voldemort and Harry. Whereas this, well . . . HARRY: I'm at King's Cross. But it's clean. DUMBLEDORE: Oh, that's nice. Well, I've got to go now. HARRY: Wait! So Snape's patronus was a doe? So was my mother's! Isn't that a bit . . . odd to you? ...

Kevin commented the other day that we probably spend more time together than most couples we know. And it's probably true. We now sit by each other at work, so unless one of us has something going on that the other doesn't (think visiting teaching or home teaching), the only time we're really apart is when Kevin leaves for work 20 or so minutes before me (because I'm lazy in the mornings) or for bathroom breaks. You might think after all the hours together we might get on each others' nerves, but so far that really hasn't happened yet. For one thing, Kevin's perfect, so he will never get on my nerves and he's too patient to ever let me get on his nerves. For another thing, there's not a whole lot from day to day we find to disagree on. Kevin is just as likely to suggest Sense and Sensibility to watch as I am, and I am just as likely to suggest, say, Spiderman as he is.  We both like any food Mexican or Indian or Chinese. We have similar long term g...