Exhilaration...and just...life

I have never in my life been this momentarily happy.  It's crazy awesome, almost too much to experience at one time.  And I can't really explain it.  Between discovering Nerdfighteria, getting completely re-mega-obsessed with Harry Potter and his fandom, and realizing that I want to go to college and graduate and become a self-supporting writer who lives in a crappy apartment in NYC and just make the world a better place...I don't know.  Well, that's just the build-up.  Today, I discovered Katy Perry's song "Firework."  I watched the music video on youtube and completely fell in love with it even though I'm not generally a supporter of Katy Perry.  I listened to the song once and was like "meh" and then I kept listening to it and I LOVE the parts in the video when the boy gets between his fighting parents and when the girl jumps into the pool with everyone else.  Oh.  I can't even describe it.  And then I put the song to Harry's life journey in my head, and I don't know what happened.  It's like the meaning of life just attacked my brain and wrapped itself around and wouldn't let go.  I thought about my Harry and blasted "Firework" in my already-blown-out eardrums and jumped up and down in my living room.  I realize this won't make any sense to anyone else, but I felt I had to write it down somewhere because it was just the single most awesome moment of my life.  Oh MAN, I wanna go out there in the world and DO something and see places and meet incredible people and make a difference, I can't even hold it all in.  I want LIFE!  I'm so excited about what the future might hold...it's frustrating to know I'm stuck where I am for at least a few more months.  Oh goodness.  LONG LIVE Harry and the people who love him, Nerdfighters, the online community, kindness, and hope! ♥

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Underlying suicidal tendencies much?

So I've pretty much spent the entire day watching John and Hank's vlogbrothers videos and browsing the Nerdfighters site, and I stumbled into the chatroom just as someone was posting a link to this video.  This is the one of the craziest things I've ever seen.  Is this for real an official race!?

VCA 2010 RACE RUN from changoman on Vimeo

DH gets auto-tuned at the Oscars

It was disappointing that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows didn't earn an Oscar, I'm not gonna lie.  Sure, it was the first time I ever came away from an HP movie feeling introspective and thoughtful rather than rabidly excited (not to mention the fact that it's the only HP film I could have legitimately slept through - it very much had the feeling of being a "Part 1" and couldn't stand on its own in my opinion), but it's still Harry Potter and I'm fiercely protective.  The acting at least was phenomenal...and the art direction in the scene where Hermione reads the "Deathly Hallows" story was unique and very well done.

On the positive side, they did put together this little number which I found rather entertaining:

Cheers!

Why is March not July?

I just got completely re-excited about LeakyCon '11.  HP nerds, unite!