Perfect cure for a headache? Harry Potter marathon! I own all eight films so of course they are all part of the blog project. I thought long and hard about how to blog about eight movies in one post. In a perfect world I would have eight separate posts. But I conducted a brief survey of people that might want to read my blog and they unanimously voted that I should NOT post eight different posts about this amazing series.
I thought instead I would tell a quick story. Once I was in college, at a small, private, liberal arts institution in MI that changed my life in so many ways. One is that it introduced me to the lovely ladies of first east Wesley Hall. I met my first real career role model in Jessica Zamborsky. She had a little apartment and was probably the best RA I have ever come across. I also meet a great gal named Angela. Angela would turn out to be my roommate in the Mae when we were seniors. It was there, in that glorious building number four with the crabby party animals living downstairs that I discovered Harry Potter. It was the 2003-2004 academic year and Angela suggested I read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone when I had some down time from class. There was this rust colored arm chair that was in our room to collect clean clothes and winter coats. I cleaned that bad boy off and read that classic in record time. I was amazed that I had not read it before! How had I avoided the wonderful tale of the boy wizard that long!
Well I was books behind. I needed to catch up and quick. Thank goodness I was a senior and Friends was in its final season so that I could find time to some reading! I had four minutes of spare time as I was failing economics each week and I spent them reading Harry Potter! Then I graduated from college and moved to Wisconsin to become a hall director. Well you know what happened next...I read every Harry Potter book as they came out. From cover to cover and usually within days of purchasing it. Well you can imagine my joy as all of the books were made into films and I got to enjoy them in my next favorite form of media-film.
I recently learned that my friend Pam has not finished reading all of the books. So if I were to recap these films I might ruin parts of those books for her! And since there are only a few people who read my blog I need to be loyal to those few. But I can share that one of my RAs found a sweet program online to work out to the Harry Potter movie. I think it was on Pinterest. But wherever she found it, it was a sweet program. A little bit Jane Fonda brought into the current generations mental time frame with Harry Potter.
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