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16th November 2010

has the moon lost her memory

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has the moon lost her memory

Headache is still lingering, I think, because it’s turning colder and I’m hunched over more. I could really go for a massage right now. To top it off, I twisted my ankle – or at least, I did something to my ankle this morning while walking to work, so I spent the rest of the day hobbling. Not fun.

All About Me Day 06 – Your earliest memory
I’m pretty sure that all of my earliest memories are really memories based on suggestions and hearing family stories. No really. I have recollections of going easter egg hunting – but I was 1 and have heard the story about how I made my parents hid the easter eggs over and over since I was tiny. I do have some recollections that I’m sure are real – memories of elementary school and flying a kite and walking along the Tucson riverway (only had water in it a couple of months) and sitting on a cactus, going to the Clouse’s house for piano lessons. Being in The Christmas Carol. But I think most of those memories are from when I was 8-9.

Interestingly, I was just reading some articles about how we “patch” our memories and cofabulate so they make sense. For example, I remember being there when my little sister fell into a hot tar pit – but I’m pretty sure that she was with one of my parents and their bike tipped in? In any case, I no longer feel bad about having a poor memory.

HP Meme Day 5 & 6
Day 5: Favorite male character and why – This is a toughie. Probably Sirius. I love how damaged of a character he is. He’s so flawed and being imprisoned at Azkaban made it even worse – the guilt. His time free was so short – I loved the moral complexities of his decisions – seeing harry as both his son and his dead best mate, his recklessness, his confrontations with Molly. I do not like that he was a bully, no let me rephrase that: I hate that he was a bully. But his joy at finding family again was just beautiful.

Second place would probably be tied between Harry and the twins. Because I love the twins and if there is one death I would reverse it would be Fred’s. Even more than Sirius. You shouldn’t kill off a twin.

Day 6: Moments in the books/movies that made you cry: Cedric’s death until the end of the book. Sirius’s death (that one still hurts) until the end of the book (I was blubbering and completely inconsolable). I didn’t cry at Dumbledore’s death – anybody who’s read Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With a Thousand Faces could have predicted that one coming. Hedwig’s death. Dobby’s death. I didn’t cry so much at Fred’s death – I was pretty numb at that point. I was also in tears at the end of OotP when Luna and Harry are talking – one of the most beautiful scenes in the entire series, in my opinion.

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  • MGD says:

    Actually, all three of you girls were with Mom when Laura rode her bike into a pothole which the road repair crew had filled with hot tar (instead of a gravel/tar mix as they should have). It got on her bike wheels and was flung onto her legs, burning them. They called an ambulance. When the ambulance pulled into our driveway I moved into panic mode.

    So for other memories, I took you to the bridge over the Rillito River in 1983-4 when it was flooding. The Campbell Avenue bridge was closed as water was within a few feet of it (water was probably about 40-50 feet deep). Do you remember me taking you out to view Haley’s comet through binoculars?

    • admin says:

      I’m glad some of my memories aren’t faulty then!

      I definitely remember the flooding and seeing all of the water. That’s pretty vivid.

      Haley’s comet is a little fuzzy. Did we go out of the city to see it?

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