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6/14/2004

city nicknames

Filed under: General — christiana @ 3:12 pm

i got back yesterday from a business trip to boston. what a great city! of course, visiting when the weather is gorgeous probably doesn’t hurt. but, seriously, great food, great history, great shopping. i loved it. it’s too expensive to even think about living there, but it’d be tempting.

on the flight home, i was thinking (this i what happens when i’m not reading harry potter–i finished order of the phoenix on wednesday and loved it, but that left me with no reading material on the flight home) that philadelphia is the only city that goes by a nickname. i don’t mean like “the windy city” or “the city” but philly. at the conference i could say “i’m from philly” and everyone knew i meant philadelphia. i can’t do that with buffalo (although buffy would be a great nickname). the only cities that come close are DC and LA, but they’re really just initials.

Boston, Atlanta, Orlando, Denver, Phoenix, Chicago, Seattle . . .I tried to think of all the cities I could, but none of them had a nickname used both by the people that live there and by those who don’t.

that said, i also won a four day, three night trip to minneapolis (that’s minny to you). now i just have to figure out when to go when i won’t freeze to death.

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6/8/2004

dear harry

Filed under: reading — christiana @ 12:20 pm

i’m late in the harry potter game. i admit it. i avoided the books on purpose because of all the hype. i watched the first two movies on dvd with slight interest.

but i went home to visit my family over memorial day and found that my little brother had brought the first four books with him. i picked up the first one and devoured it and then the second before i headed back here on memorial day. last week, i checked the next two out of the library and within three days i’d finished those as well. and, i just re-read the ending of azkaban over my lunch break to remind myself how good it was. i love these books. i would have eaten them up as a teen. (not that it was hard to get me to read back then either).

i went to see the movie on saturday and really enjoyed it. i’ve seen the director’s work in A Little Princess (which is just a beautiful film, by the way). i would have loved a little more quidditch (especially the match where harry casts the patronus on draco malfoy) and a little more back story on the four animagi and their friendship. but, for an adaptation, i thought he did an admirable job–far better than the first two. alan rickman is my favorite. his perfect sneer makes him so deliciously fun to watch (and despise).

anyway, i’m hoping that i can get to the public library before it closes tonight so i can check out the fifth book to read while i’m in boston for the next few days.

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