I took this picture last summer I think. We went to New Orleans and decided to visit this gorgeous old plantation while we were there. How amazing would it have been to walk out onto your balcony and see this every morning? Could you ever wake up angry? It's just one of those sights that makes you feel good. I say screw the red carpet...have celebrities walk down this. Speaking of celebrities, I actually saw Nicholas Cage while visiting this plantation. He was in Louisiana for work I suppose and took a day to go see this with his family. I don't see why you wouldn't take a day off to see this. I don't remember anything about that day, except for this. For some reason I remember every vivid detail of that plantation. The Oak Alley Plantation.

Anyways...The subject of this post was going to be something that actually mattered, but now I think I'm just going to ramble about the things I've been thinking about.

Is anyone else really excited for the new Harry Potter movie? This probably isn't all that suprising, but...I'm a huge Harry Potter nerd. I've been to all the midnight book release parties at Barnes & Noble. And I most definitely have Wizard Rock music on my iPod. I remember when the books first came out...I was definitely old enough to read them on my own, but my brother had a harder time reading than I did, so our entire family would sit in the living room before bed and my dad would read them aloud to us. If he stopped somewhere really good, I would take the book when no one was looking and read ahead : ) Go Hufflepuffs!

This is completely unrelated to Harry Potter, but I was looking up a band member's biography to find out his age and something in his biography made me really pissed. I don't like them any less now, but if someone gets a full scholarship but drops out after only one semester to be in band, well that just frustrating. At least it is to me. I understand that a career like that can't always be put on hold so you have to take the chance when you have it, but really? A full scholarship and then he drops out? I would kill for a full scholarship...to anywhere. I'll be lucky if I can afford one year of college, and that's if I factor in small scholarships. Is it really that hard to go to college and play music at the same time? I mean what do they do if the band breaks up? What if their music becomes unpopular? What if things don't work out according to plan? There's no safety net.

I think I'm going to get a few hours of sleep now. Finally going to sleep at 9am seems perfectly normal to me...which probably isn't a good thing.
Oh, and two things that made me smile this morning: daffodils and this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTk5dRytUI8