Is President Snow like Dumbledore?

I was originally going to just tweet this but I realized that 140 characters wouldn't be enough for an explanation behind what I'm about to say:

President Snow is the Dumbledore of The Hunger Games

If you have read The Hunger Games series than you know that president snow is a very cruel character. But what people don't realize and that I understood after watching Donald Sutherland's version of President Snow that Snow is a very diverse character. 

"Hope is the only thing stronger than Fear." is a line that Snow says while talking to Seneca while in his rose garden. When I heard this line I immediately went back to the many line that Dumbledore has said throughout the Harry Potter series. At that moment Snow became a completely different character in my mind. He became a more vulnerable character. A wiser character. I realized that Snow wasn't just this cruel power hungry president. He was a person that like many others in books and in actuality became consumed by power and essentially let it get to his head. But at the same time he is scared. Every year he hosts the hunger games and tells the people of Panem that "we sacrifice your children so we don't have a repeat of the rebellion". He is supposed to be this confident idol that everyone looks up to just as our leaders in reality are. But just like in reality he has hiding something. He's afraid that out of these hunger games might come a child that will have the ability to restart a rebellion and beat him. He admits this to Seneca is the rose garden scene "Have you been to those districts? 11? 12?... I have... you wouldn't root for them either" When Katniss comes out as this strong rebellious character President Snow see's her as a threat. He knows that Districts across Panem are rooting for her to succeed. They view her as a light in their darkness. But Snow views her as the one person who could possibly take him down. 

Even though we view him as this cruel person who sends kids into an arena to die. I can't help but feel sorry for him. If I could I would want to sit down with him and try to understand what's going through his mind during the hunger games and when he visits districts.

Most people wouldn't want to admit the similarities between President Snow and Dumbledore. But both these characters are so diverse that the only things different is that Dumbledore does everything he can for the good of him and his fellow wizards and President Snow does everything out of fear of being taken down by in his words "the underdogs". 

If anyone truly read the books and watched the movies then you will know that Dumbledore was very wise but cryptic. It was almost as if he knew how everything was going to turn out but he refused to give Harry any insite because he knew Harry had to learn to do things on his own. He knew that Harry would give in to Voldemort and it would never end up the way Harry would have hoped. Dumbledore was always worried though. Like President Snow, he was worried that things wouldn't work out as he expected. Dumbledore was constantly worried that Harry would give up hope and give up fighting. Dumbledore knew that Harry would become, just as Katniss did, a light in the dark for the wizarding world. 

There is one thing about Dumbledore that I myself find it hard to admit. That is, like President Snow, he was power hungry. Dumbledore did what he did because he knew he had power over people. He was looked to more than the ministry was. He has influence over the ministry even. He is the President Snow of the Wizarding world. They both have (had) a common goal of peace in their worlds. The difference in their plans were that while President snow had to force children into fighting, Dumbledore had volunteers willing to walk into a battlefield and fight to the death. Dumbledore knew this and he used it to his advantage.

Both these influential men had their wisdom, their power hunger, and their fears to guide them through our favourite books and movies. I hope that after reading this you will view them men in a different light and will see their similarities.

Introverts and Lemons

As an introvert I don't really like meeting new people. Actually, I don't really like people in general. But, regardless, I agree to meet new people with this notion in my head that I'm going to try to not be extremely awkward and shy. Then when I meet the person I'm trying to hard not to be award and shy I end up being obnoxious and loud and people think I'm over the top. So really, there isn't a happy medium here. I'm either shy and awkward or over the top with my personality.

Now my psychologist (yes I go see a psychologist) tells me I have to change my self talk. I'm supposed to not believe that I'm less then what I actually am. I'm supposed to believe that everyone likes me until they don't. I guess it's sort of like the whole "innocent until proven guilty" sort of ordeal. Which, I agree is right. But it's not really that easy. You have to spend all this time thinking and concentrating on how you want to portray yourself and how you don't think this person isn't judging you on your looks (which they probably are - but that's besides the point) and you have less brain capacity to concentrate on the goings on around you. It's kind of like mystic from x-men. She had to concentrate on making herself look like Jennifer Lawrence so she spent less concentrating on her surroundings.

There really is no easy way to go about in life. So I'm going to go out and start throwing lemons at people because they have lives and I don't.

Above is a really safe first try that just didn't work out

"Above" by Leah Bobet is a really good book... in the last 3-4 chapters. But before I get into that let me give you a synopsis of what the book is about.

"Matthew has loved Ariel from the moment he found her in the tunnels, her bee’s wings falling away. They live in Safe, an underground refuge for those fleeing the city Above—like Whisper, who speaks to ghosts, and Jack Flash, who can shoot lightning from his fingers.

But one terrifying night, an old enemy invades Safe with an army of shadows, and only Matthew, Ariel, and a few friends escape Above. As Matthew unravels the mystery of Safe’s history and the shadows’ attack, he realizes he must find a way to remake his home—not just for himself, but for Ariel, who needs him more than ever before."


Thank you goodreads.com for that lovely synopsis. 


When I first started to read this book I was extremely confused as to what is going on. It took me about 3 weeks to read it's 368 pages. Now I have to give Leah Bobet some credit, this is her first book. But it lacks organization and drive to keep the reader pushing further into the book. If I didn't have a drive to never not finish a book I wouldn't have gotten passed chapter 1 simply because I had no idea what what going on. 


As I said earlier the last 3-4 chapters are probably the best out of all 10 chapter + epilogue. Now, I understand that the last few chapters are usually the best in the book regardless. But, the rest of the book leading up to that have to be good and the reader will never get to those last good bits. 

Leah Bobet has the potential to be an excellent writer. If the book had a bit more editing and was organized a bit better it has the potential to be an amazing book. I look forward to reading more of Leah Bobet's books in the future. But if all of her books are this disorganized she won't last long as a known writer. She'll fall into the cracks along with Stephanie Meyer, who is destined for oblivion (all you twilight fans might as well face that fact now). 

What do I rate this book? 3 sets of bee's wings out of 5. I suggest you read it but I would get it second hand or when it's online. Don't bother paying full price for it.

Hatred of the Hair Dryer

Do you want to know what I really hate? I didn't think so but unless you stop reading this and go back to your facebook you going to find out.

Drying my hair.

I hate drying my hair for several reasons.

1) It's so incredibly loud.
You have this loud noise blaring into your ears for anywhere from 5 - 30 minutes (for me personally it's about 10-15) I've had showers that last less time then that (mostly if I'm in a rush).

2) There is nothing you can possibly do while drying your hair.
You can't listen to music because of the loudness of the hair dryer (unless you have patience to dry out your ears and use ear buds but even then you have to put the music on blast to block out the noise [I do not have this patience]). You can check facebook (unless you are more skilled with hand/hand/eye co-ordination then I am). Along with a multitude of other things.

3) Because you are just sitting there trying to get your hair dried perfectly the 5 - 30 minutes you are sat there drying feels more like 30 - 60 minutes.

4) It's bad for your hair (and the environment).
The heat from the dryer fries up your hair like no tomorrow and usually (because you were too lazy to dry your hair perfectly straight) afterword your hitting your hair with more heat from a straightening iron. (The environment thing was only added because anything electronic is not good for the environment just like anything you eat is cancerous)

Well there you have it. Four very good reasons for hating to dry my hair. Now I must go and - you guessed it - dry my hair.

Atlas of Life

I have never been so drained in my life. Throwing yourself into school 110% is a lot of work. How about we add some other things to this already heavy workload? A job? A second online some what demanding course? This is nothing. Some people go to school full time, work full time, and take care of kids. To those people I solute you because I would never be able to do it. I'm having a hard time staying away from just studying now I'm planning on adding a part-time job into the mix along with the photography course I was supposed to work on the summer. But the one thing I don't forget to do is to leave me time. Such as this weekend I'm having a Harry Potter marathon on saturday (tentative date) and I have a date on sunday. But the date is only  a movie date meaning it won't be longer then 3 hours and it's at night so I have all day to get school work done... as long as I don't get asked to work :S But I'm going to end this pointless entry after the next few sentences, drink some of my coffee and finish some of my large pile of school work. Thank god tomorrow is short.

Butt Numbing Amazement!

These past couple of day's have been tiring, crazy, exciting, stressful, and butt numbing (literally). But I'm loving every minute of it! All throughout high school I never wanted to go into the healthcare profession because it's what my parents did and what was sort of expected of me. But since being out of high school and learning about myself, my likes, dislikes, and seeing life with "brand new eyes" (tattoo reference) I was able to see that the apple really doesn't fall far from the tree. Unfortunately by the time I realized this I screwed myself over from getting into the nursing program. But I was able to get into the practical nursing program which is just as noble as Bachelor of Nursing. It's only been a couple day's and I've met so many amazing people in my class and my teachers seem to be pretty good as well. So far my favourite is Allen Anstey. Mostly because he's one of those teacher's that likes to tell jokes and knows how dry they are. So we get a good laugh out of it. I believe my excitement of doing this course has allowed me to actually sit down and do some studying when I don't even have a test coming up. This is something I would have never done before. As early and long and butt numbing (literally) I don't mind getting up in the morning to go to school because I'm working toward something I really like maybe even love (haven't decided if I want to get that deep of a relationship after just 2 days)

For a Pessimist, I'm Pretty Optimistic

If I was reading what I'm about to write a week ago I would have said "She's a fucking cracked for being happy". Mostly because a week ago I had my Aunt visiting and she usually brings me down but also because I was living a life of ignorance believing that there was only one way to solve my lovesickness which is to actually ask the guy out. So what do I do instead I man up and get the balls to tell him exactly what's on the go and what does he say to me "I'm not ready to say yes or no." or something along those lines. Most girls would obsess over this fact doing everything possible to get this guy to finally say yes. But me, I'm not most girls. I sit back and say whatev's he'll figure it out I'm amazing eventually. It maybe too late but that's his own fault. This is the way I see it... tomorrow I'm moving back in town, I start my course in less then 2 weeks, I'm going to have the apartment to myself (although I will miss my roommate like crazy), and I have this amazing friendship with a guy who I adore as a person. So what could possibly go wrong? I'm gonna stay positive. I've lived a life of sadness for far too long. It's my time to be happy.