Scribbles in the Dark

"When You Are Old" by William Butler Yeats

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

stolen from 'aheartfulofyou', a very funny ( fic meme... )

so, i definitely have to leave for work in like five minutes, but i just wanted to make a quick update. today has been great! after waking up, i read hp7 aloud to jess and- no spoilers!- i have to say i'm quite impressed. ( spoilers for the first few chapters here )

anyway, i left jess to read on her own and took paddy to the dogpark again with cait and jess and duke. this one was one that cait's been to before, so we let the dogs off-leash and they ran around a lot by the water. ^_____^ but paddy got pooped out half-way through- she's still all fat and sausage-shaped because no one at home takes her for walks. and then it started to rain and we left anyway. ah, well. we'll go again monday, with bri.

and jim is pro'ly getting a great job this year- the guy called him this morning (last night?) about it and he's practcically hired to this one kitchen. yay!!! i'm so happy for him.

ack, okay now i really have to go to work. it's raining hard- which is nice, except that i have to drive through it, and marshy hates water, he hydroplanes like nobody's business. little bugger. so! leaving a few minutes early. ttyl!!!!

harry potter 7 is coming out at midnight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *flails* this is the end of my existence, y'all.

cait and i are meeting bri and sav and rhian and rachel at the borders at lakeline mall, and then cait and i will go to b&n at the arboretum to meet sam and get my copy- my brother's copy, actually, but he's in germany. ha!!!! and melissa's in padre- i called her to make sure she was coming to border's, but obviously that's not happening. *eyeroll*

today was good, otherwise. woke up early to a massive thunderstorm, didn't end up getting the oil in my truck changed like i'd intended, went to work, came home and took paddy to the dogpark with cait and jess and duke. came home and took a nap. organised pottermas eve schedules with rhian. and here we are! cait wants to get out the door this second but i refused. this is a night that must be documented in posterity.

if i get a copy of the book tonight, i am not sleeping again until i finish it, so i'm glad for the nap earlier, though it was short. and now we go!!!!

ps- thank god for fanfiction.

god, i am SO distracted right now... i've been zoning out ever since i got home; my mom is listening to the tapes of hp5 in preparation for the movie coming out this summer, and it's insanely distracting!

....i definitely just zoned out again.

anyway, what i meant this post to be about was a recap of how totally awesome a-kon was. even though i got sick- dunno what with, i'm going to the doc's office tomorrow morning, but i had a headache friday and saturday, and i've had a sore throat since saturday as well. mom says i have tonsillitis or something like that, maybe strep throat. so- everyone i was around at a-kon, this is your warning!!! anyway, cos-playing rocked on saturday. we looked amazing, and we were going as a group, so people were always taking pictures of us, and we're in the a-kon picture archives or whatever they're called. we walked the dealer room a lot, and artist alley was fantastic, and the cosplay ice-skating saturday afternoon was a blast, too. man, we had so much fun. *grins* and i saw rhys and zuri in the lobby on sunday morning!!! that was weird; i hadn't expected to see them, although i'd known they were going. and i didn't recognize zuri in her blue wig and cat ears. *eyeroll* oh! and the photo shoot- there was probably a hundred cosplayers from naruto all in one place saturday afternoon, after the ice-skating, and we were the only sanin who made it into the photos. that was fun. and some of the other cosplayers were amazing, as well. there was one really good rock lee, and one of the timeskip sasuke cosplayers was pretty good, too. and all of the sound nin, and haku and zabuza, although i don't think they came as a group. but anyway, it was a blast- and we're already planning who to cosplay as for next year. we're looking at the siblings from scrapped princess- i'd be pacifica, which means i get to be the only one showing cleavage again. but these costumes are gonna be SO much harder than the ones we put together in a week for a-kon this past weekend. *worried*

bri's post about the weekend is much more thorough than mine. go read it if you're really interested. mostly it was an amazing weekend and i had a blast. and jim got hella drunk friday night. *woobie* but i love him anyway. ^/____^


...aaa~aand i just zoned. hoo~oo...

i meant to put a drabble up here, but i'm way too distracted to post anything right now, not with the harry potter tapes playing. it's interesting, though. i think i only read book 5 once, and i'd forgotten most of it- i know the basics of canon from fanfic, but i keep getting sucked in to little scenes i don't remember, or at least not clearly.

...so who else is excited about book 7 finally coming out?!?! *grins*