Life with Harry / Song and Skit

So I have decided to post the rough cut of my editing project.  It's not finished (the bars and tone have been omitted . . . !!!) and I ended up changing the graphics at the beginning, but you can get the general idea of it.

I have to do a project for editing and a documentary for Camera for Broadcast, so I'm doing them both on Harry Potter.  However, this is more of a "showcase" video and not a documentary.  I'll end up using the majority of the footage in the documentary, but it will be totally different--more of a Maysle Brothers feel.  

If I had access to a good camera, I was going to do a short narrative film but, alas, my camera time is limited.  I need to invest in a good camcorder.

I hope you all enjoy this stupid video.  I laugh when I watch it, but that doesn't mean anything.

Oh, and there's Song and Skit :)

Hogwarts Live

OK, so I know I make a big deal about HogwartsLive.com.  Basically, in a nutshell, it's a text-based Harry Potter RPG [role-playing game] in which you can chat with other players and kill creatures in the forest and gain experience and defeat Voldemort.  Why is it so addicting?  Because it's what I call an active time waster.

Facebook can only be so active.  Commenting on photos, statuses, walls, etc., you are only talking to one person at a time.  HogwartsLive is weird because there's a chat in which a lot of VERY different people participate -- and they think about the game in various ways.  Some people see it as a way to make friends.  I don't, because I have RL (real-life) friends.  In fact, 4 of my real-life friends are on HogwartsLive which I will refer to now as HL.  My goal is to get to 200+ Voldemort encounters and get a Ford Anglia as my mount.  But others don't see it that way.  I have the sneaking suspicion that many HL players have very few real-life friends and a disproportionate amount of HL friends.  My evidence is that people who have been on HL for a smaller amount of time than me have waaaaay more Voldemort Encounters than I do, and seem to take HL "drama" much more seriously than I do.  This can only be because they are on a crazy amount more time than me, because I am on a decent amount and I rarely chat, I usually just fight in the forest.

However, I am relatively hated on HL because of the way I chat.  I make fun of almost everyone on there because of how seriously they take the drama.  I like to cause the drama because it's funny as hell.  If I am out of forest fights and have nothing else to do, I will be contrary to anything anyone says on HL just to start a fight.

Because what is the fun in an online RPG if everyone loves each other?

Weird Things that Ruin My Day

So besides the fact that I'm still pretty deathly ill, there are a few other things that ruined my day for the past two days.

Yesterday I had to wake up super early for work, but I chugged some DayQuil which made me functional for the hour and a half that I was needed for.  I came back at 9:30am and my boyfriend was still here (weird, because he usually leaves at like 7am because he is strange).  I talked to him for about 10 minutes before I realized that I NEEDED to go back to bed for awhile.  I set my phone alarm for 11am so I would not miss Gilmore Girls.  

I slept through Gilmore Girls!  I was so mad.  I woke up at 1:30pm and all that awaited me was laundry.  Definitely a day-ruiner.   It doesn't even matter that I have every episode on DVD.  That means nothing.

Actually, what ruined my day even more was the fact that HogwartsLive.com was down.  HogwartsLive is basically my #1 time waster and I love it.  It's a text-based RPG and you just go into the forest and kill creatures, get experience and defeat Voldemort.  Then you start all over again.  You chat with other players and whatnot.  My friends Katie, Matt and Adrianne are on it as well, it's extremely addicting.  So the fact that it has been down for 2 days is a total day ruiner.  Especially when I'm at work and I have nothing else to do.  It better work on Monday, because Monday is the boring shift where I'm alone for 2 1/2 hours.

Take it from me -- a killer sore throat, sleeping through Gilmore Girls and no HogwartsLive is a crappy day.