A break from the all-wedding all the time programming (though still a good illustration of how completely detached from reality I am).
Preamble: now that we’re on the top floor (instead of wedged in the middle) we get a great deal more birds wheeling by outside our apartment than I am used to. I am still regularly surprised by them.
Anyhow, the other day, Neil and I were watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
As with the rest of the Harry Potter movies, this one was no less able to sweep me into its crazy world of ghosts and mer-people and wizards and flying brooms.
So it shouldn’t come as that much of a surprise that I was, once again, caught off-guard by a winged creature soaring past my window at dusk. And then surprised again that it wasn’t a dragon outside my window, but instead just a seagull.
The nutty thing is, once I realized that yes, I am still tied to this mortal coil and living in reality, I was COMPLETELY and utterly disappointed.
I really wanted a dragon.
In fact, I still do.
I felt the same way. Dammit. Where are the dragons??