I thought about this journal today for the first time in a long time. It felt strange reading it back, all these memories of this life I used to live. I wrote this at quite a difficult time in my life, although I don't think I really realised it then.

Since I last updated (and if I'm honest the only reason I'm updating now is because it's the summer holidays and I'm bored) things have changed a lot. I've spent 7 months travelling the world, lived in Europe, got new friends and I've just finished my first year at the uni I always wanted to go to. I feel like the LJ chapter of my life is over (if the lack of updates hadn't informed you!) and, as I don't like the idea of this journal sitting here on the internet for years to come, I'll be deleting it in a couple of weeks. 

So anyway, thank you to all my LJ friends; before I started writing here I never would have thought I could receive so much support/have so much fun by chatting to "strangers" online. I wish you all lots of love and luck. x

Noooooooo! Coop can't be the killer! I can sense this is what they're doing but I won't believe it until I see it on the screen. I WILL NOT HAVE IT.



Look, he's all cute and protective. "You're not just some girl I meet up in his room with for sex. You're my best friend." Would he REALLY try to strangle Maxie???

Well, that's disappointing. But at least we put up a good fight - and overall, SA deserved to be champions.

Also, Dumbledore's gay!

Oh my god... Gossip Girl! I love it more every week! Blair is simply awesome. She reminds me a lot of Brooke in OTH (which can only be a good thing). Her mom is such a bitch though! I find it hard to believe that anyone could be like that to their own child! Serena's sweet, but a bit too perfect. I'm hoping to see some 'bad girl Serena' soon; she didn't get a reputation for no reason. I like the focus on their friendship - this week was awesome because of that. Ut's nice to see a show that doesn't feel it needs 200 different dramas going on at once, not that I'm thinking of anything specific... *cough* Grey's *cough*.

It helps that Nate and Dan are hot as well...

I am SO excited about Atonement... I saw the new trailer today (ask if you want me to upload it... it's better than the first one I think). I've also just seen these gorgeous images made by hurtyesterday. Aren't they beautiful? I think Keira Knightley will be really good as Cecilia... I was dubious at first but the trailers are just so good. The one thing I am a bit worried about is the fact that three actresses are playing Briony and I can sense that that might annoy me. Also, without spoiling it for those who haven't read it, a lot of the beauty of the book is the fact that it IS a book, so it could go wrong. But I'm not going to be negative as everything I've seen looks very promising. The images are just beautiful - it looks like it's going to be a very visual film.

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WARNING: this post contains SPOILERS for HP7. Do not read if you don't want to be spoiled

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I am fuming. I am spoiler free and trying to remain spoiler free so just don't talk about the book!

I was seven when the first book came out, and I remember getting it from the library that year, reading it and loving it. I've always loved books - my mum read to me and my sisters every night until I was about 11 and we all read the first Harry Potter together. Since then I've got every book on the day it's come out, and every time I've been a bit older and there's been more media hype etc. It's been a big deal - I remember where I've been every time I read it. I remember how I cried the day the third one was released because I hadn't finished it and so my mum let me miss my swimming lesson to do so and how I was at school when I got the fifth one and had to sit through double Biology with it right in front of me.

Now it's time for the last one and I'm seventeen. And the end of Harry Potter is somehow not just the end of Harry Potter, it's the end of my childhood - me and my friends are the original 'Harry Potter kids', British and the right age so somehow it's appropriate that it's finishing the year we turn 18. I've grown up with Harry Potter and although I'm excited about the final book, I'm also strangely sad. Never again will I talk about what I think is going to happen with my friends, or have a 'quiz' to see who knows the most about Harry Potter. This is the very last time I'll feel excited in the run up to a book.

So I haven't just waited two years for this, I've waited ten years. Ten years, and I've only lived seventeen! And I know how I want this to end. I want to go out, at midnight with my mum and my sisters, buy our copies of the book, return home and curl up on the sofa reading it, in the same place I read the last one. I don't want to know what happens in the book until I have it in my hand. I want to read it and say goodbye to these characters that have been a big part of my childhood at my own pace. Now, I don't expect everyone to get it - I realise it's silly to get so worked up about a work of fiction, but I do expect them to respect it and don't go spoiling it for some sick pleasure. It's a bit weird to get excited about upsetting people by the way, have you thought of therapy? Anyway, we have waited so long for this - don't spoil it out of spite.

ETA: On a lighter note: http://www.hpana.com/news.19749.html A helpline?! Seriously?

Obviously, finale spoilers.

( It's time to let go of everything we used to know )

Hey, can any of you help me? I made a lastfm account under the username magicalmia and I had loads of fun scrobbling for a couple of days. Then I decided I didn't want that username - I wanted my school one so I could use it at school. So I made a new thing and I deleted the old account from my player. But now whenever I try to scrobble it says "There is not enough content to play this station"! Every single thing! Do any of you know how to fix it?

Hope all is well,

Mia x

PS. I am thirsty but surely that's not a mood but a feeling?! x

Yo all,

I thought I'd do another thoughts-thing on the recent episodes. It's fun :D

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