Couch 97: Prime Pyramids

My therapist is like Harry Potter in that just like Harry could have been very successful in Slytherin, she has the qualities to choose her own house.

So I would say that by nature she is a Ravenclaw who has joined Hufflepuff.

""You might belong in Hufflepuff,
Where they are just and loyal,
Those patient Hufflepuffs are true,
And unafraid of toil"

I love this one - about Hermione

Courtesy of my kids my fav HP=related video
The mysterious Ticking Noise

This would be an amazing therapy discussion if my T read Harry Potter, which she might have. I need to brush up on the facts.

Now I'm thinking what is be. Definitely not Ravenclaw, not smart enough. Not evil enough for slytherin. Griffyndoor would be my "I aspire" to be brave, but really I am a hufflepuff.

T explained yesterday and it was something that I could understand and accept. It's almost like yesterday didn't happen and I'm okay with that. These issues are so hard and frustrating (mine not w/ T). Long road ahead. Night, couch.

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I know but therein lies the challenge!

Evening, couch.

Well, I had my long day yesterday and a semilong day today (though today, I did get to take a short nap to refresh myself).

Got to go home a little early from CVS last night and tonight as everything was caught up on and there was nothing else left to do.

Pharm manager still has not figured out how to adjust the schedule to modify my hours/shifts since I picked up last night for a coworker (her daughter was having a c-section). Now I am over 40 hrs unless he takes away a shift. He's not in tomorrow, so I guess I will have to remind him on Thursday. Pushing it close.

Well, I am falling asleep while typing this post. To bed it is.

Night, couch.

I have never read any of the HP books so I don't know what my t is, nor what I am. I guess I should read them, my son has 'em all.

Good luck with it.

I enjoyed the books. I only saw one movie - I didn't like the movies (although I do like Emma Watson.)

Oh my! You definitely should read them. Keep in mind the first three are written on a different level than the last four, so I know I have to kind of tolerate my way through the first two particularly. Some people get turned off with the first one and quit (kind of elementary level), but if you persist, the reward does come as the books progress. I have no clue how many times I've read the series. It is kind of my go-to easy, brainless read because I read so much heavy, serious literature for my job (and bad student essays) that I just need something light and pleasurable and fantastical to chill with.

I would definitely be Ravenclaw. So would my T and pdoc I think. My first T would have been a Hufflepuff because of his big heart and gentle nature. My middle T was Gryffindor all the way--seriously brave man. Fortunately I've never run into a Slytherin therapist or pdoc, but I've definitely met some Slytherin neurosurgeons.

I liked the first two the best - then they got kind of darker. I like my escapism to be happy.
My repeat books are cozy british mysteries - I have reread Dorothy Sayers countless times. Right now I am greatly enjoying D.E. Stevenson (not mysteries but definitely british cozy).

Love. This.

You should see what is hanging in my classroom. My son's best friend was working for a movie theater when the last two movies came out. He used to come over late at night the night before he had college essays due and ask me to proofread for him. His thank-you to me were both of the Deathly Hallow movie theater posters. These are the huge ones that are displayed in the lighted windows, so they are translucent. Both of them were the posters that featured Hermione. So cool. It's funny to watch kids wander into my room to see them. (Word gets around.) Often the kids that wander in very discretely are like these really serious gang member kind of kids -- closet Harry Potter fans. I've even had them ask to borrow my books and movies because they hadn't read or seen them all. Love it!!

Too scary for me. And aside from the 3 main characters - I really only liked Maggie Smith as Prof. McGonagall. The rest were better the way I pictured them (for me)

I've always been a re-reader. I have quite a few I revisit every few years. Currently re-reading Lord of the Rings for the upteenth time. That's a bit heavier than Potter. Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth is marvelous to read over again. I've also gotten pretty hooked on Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series and the Game of Thrones series, but those are monster series so I usually can only do one or two books at a time and then I have to switch to something else.

I thought that Snape was perfect casting. I love Alan Rickman!!

Even though I was so-so about the long forgotten movie Dogma, I loved him in this too.

Here ya go Artemis.

I've spent most of my summer plowing through my students' summer reading which was excellent but pretty heavy and provocative literature, so I'm headed by to Middle Earth for awhile to decompress. Speaking of which, I'm off to bed to read a bit and get some sleep. Night, all.

Ok that was cool! I shall obtain the books from my son tomorrow and begin my adventure.

I do like Dogma. And I enjoyed reading Follett's Pillars. I like Follett in general.
I never got into the Outlander series, but I like Gabaldon's Lord John Grey.
For re-reading - I choose the cozy sort (mystery and non) though - RF Delderfield, Agatha Christie etc.

I liked a lot of the ideas behind Dogma, was just disappointed that it didn't go far enough

I want to read the outlander series, maybe that will be next?

I'm currently reading Robert Moss Conscious Dreaming. I have a couple of his other books that I have not read yet. My go-to books for re-reading: Wuthering Heights (of course!) and Robert Frost's poetry. I used to be a huge Stephen King fan, but not anymore. Oh and I started reading The Mists of Avalon not too long ago, but it kinda lost me around chapter 4. I may pick it up again in the future, maybe after the HP series if I get into those. I don't have a comfortable reading spot at home right now, so I pretty much read only on my breaks at work, so it takes a long time to finish anything. After we move I am going to buy myself a reading chair!!!!

I love a lot of those you all mentioned, right now have been taking solace in Nutmeg of Consolation by Patrick O'Brian. They made a movie of his works several years back, and as someone who mostly hates adaptations, I was actually completely smitten by his, Master and Commander, lyrical treatment of British navy life at the dawn of the 19th century. Oooh, maybe I'll watch it tomorrow again. Need to get lost in some fiction for a bit.

Before that, I reread all the Asimov robot stuff.

And reread LoTR series again too this year, always a good go to. The Silmarillion was a good departure when I wanted something in the same vein without being repetitive.