Procrastination is one of my biggest motivators.

Campion brought up a very good point in his post on wednesday. Summer break for me is probably the time of the year when I get the least amount of things done despite all the free time to do it. During the school year I'm constantly putting off doing homework to do other things, but as soon as summer comes it's like I can't think of anything I want to do besides lay around or go swimming. Maybe it's the heat, I don't know.

I did get to go strawberry picking with my family a couple days ago, though, so now we have lots of fresh berries to eat. I planted some dwarf sunflowers a while ago and they are finally starting to sprout. I'm not very good at taking care of plants (I usually end up killing them by over or underwatering them) so I hope that these will survive. I also ended up reading Zombies vs. Unicorns, Divergent, one smaller book and four volumes of manga in the past week. Z vs. U was a really good book, I like how it was a bunch of separate short stories and you should check it out if you haven't already. Also looking back I realize in my first post I said team unicorn, but I think I've converted.

Katie: I am a huge animal fan so I'm not sure I have a favourite, but I do really like polar bears (is that cliche for a Canadian?). The only time I've seen them in a zoo was a long time ago in Winnipeg and it was so hot that summer that I felt really bad for it. Zoos in general kind of make me sad.

Kira: I got into Harry Potter first through the movies when I was little. I ended up reading the fourth novel first because I was little and I wanted to read the biggest book that I could find that still looked interesting and that was it. After that I went back and reread the whole series start to finish. That was when all the books had already been released so I didn't care when the last book came out. My sister did though and when she bought it and finished reading it I immediately went and read the "19 years later" section at the end because I figured I would never read the books anyways. Oh how wrong I was.

*minor movie spoilers ahead*
As predicted I did cry lots during the movie. It was really good though, I really have no complaints except for them not actually showing Fred's death scene. My favourite part was when McGonagall called the statues to arms, I was probably as excited as her when she did that. Snape's story affected me more from the movie than when I read it in the book I have to admit and his death made me cringe and cry. Neville made me smile whenever I saw him because I was thinking about how much he'd changed, especially when he was facing the werewolves. And at the very end of the movie I couldn't help but think, "Oh my god, Harry's son has Justin Bieber hair..." It made me shake my head and sigh.

DFTBA
Kayla

P.S. Thumbs up for Green Day, they rock!
P.P.S. Do you guys think I write too much? I feel like I write too much, but I'm not sure if I can help it...