So. . .

Haven't chexed the Deathmarch for days. Have I missed anything?

Got relatively decent grades. Lowest was a B-, which I once would have flipped over, but which now seems pretty darn good considering how little work I did in that class. Looks like they'll be sending me my diploma after all. Probably glad to get rid of me.

Can't seem to cut my Austen paper down enough. Have 700 more words to go. Am thinking of scrapping the whole thing and writing a new paper. Since it has to be postmarked by tomorrow, am thinking it probably won't work. Oh, well. I'll try again tomorrow, but if it still doesn't work, I'll just give up. It was a long shot anyway.

Need to get my hair trimmed, as I haven't done so for about 5 months. May try to do that tomorrow after I finish the paper.

Since I'll need to go to the post office anyway to make sure my paper is postmarked tomorrow, I'll finally mail Lou and Teri their packages. I'm not sure what Teri is going to do with Hazelnut hot cocoa since summer is coming on, but if you can drink hot coffee all year long, why not hot cocoa? Teri, are you still in your apartment in Austin? If not I need your new address. Also, have you ever read any Robin McKinley? And do you own any of her books? If you do, I may need to take something out of your package.

Lou's package also contains hot chocolate, but since she's in Michigan I'm sure she can still use it.

Am exhausted, and am going to bed now.

EDIT: Change all those "tomorrow"s to "today". Midnight came and went as I was typing. Oh, well.

So. . .

Haven't chexed the Deathmarch for days. Have I missed anything?

Got relatively decent grades. Lowest was a B-, which I once would have flipped over, but which now seems pretty darn good considering how little work I did in that class. Looks like they'll be sending me my diploma after all. Probably glad to get rid of me.

Can't seem to cut my Austen paper down enough. Have 700 more words to go. Am thinking of scrapping the whole thing and writing a new paper. Since it has to be postmarked by tomorrow, am thinking it probably won't work. Oh, well. I'll try again tomorrow, but if it still doesn't work, I'll just give up. It was a long shot anyway.

Need to get my hair trimmed, as I haven't done so for about 5 months. May try to do that tomorrow after I finish the paper.

Since I'll need to go to the post office anyway to make sure my paper is postmarked tomorrow, I'll finally mail Lou and Teri their packages. I'm not sure what Teri is going to do with Hazelnut hot cocoa since summer is coming on, but if you can drink hot coffee all year long, why not hot cocoa? Teri, are you still in your apartment in Austin? If not I need your new address. Also, have you ever read any Robin McKinley? And do you own any of her books? If you do, I may need to take something out of your package.

Lou's package also contains hot chocolate, but since she's in Michigan I'm sure she can still use it.

Am exhausted, and am going to bed now.

EDIT: Change all those "tomorrow"s to "today". Midnight came and went as I was typing. Oh, well.

So. . .

Haven't chexed the Deathmarch for days. Have I missed anything?

Got relatively decent grades. Lowest was a B-, which I once would have flipped over, but which now seems pretty darn good considering how little work I did in that class. Looks like they'll be sending me my diploma after all. Probably glad to get rid of me.

Can't seem to cut my Austen paper down enough. Have 700 more words to go. Am thinking of scrapping the whole thing and writing a new paper. Since it has to be postmarked by tomorrow, am thinking it probably won't work. Oh, well. I'll try again tomorrow, but if it still doesn't work, I'll just give up. It was a long shot anyway.

Need to get my hair trimmed, as I haven't done so for about 5 months. May try to do that tomorrow after I finish the paper.

Since I'll need to go to the post office anyway to make sure my paper is postmarked tomorrow, I'll finally mail Lou and Teri their packages. I'm not sure what Teri is going to do with Hazelnut hot cocoa since summer is coming on, but if you can drink hot coffee all year long, why not hot cocoa? Teri, are you still in your apartment in Austin? If not I need your new address. Also, have you ever read any Robin McKinley? And do you own any of her books? If you do, I may need to take something out of your package.

Lou's package also contains hot chocolate, but since she's in Michigan I'm sure she can still use it.

Am exhausted, and am going to bed now.

EDIT: Change all those "tomorrow"s to "today". Midnight came and went as I was typing. Oh, well.

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Have decided to break my recent tradition of blogging at midnight today. Dad was commenting too much on it.

Forgot to mention something I discovered in canon recently. Did you know that JKR has already done a serious/Sirius joke? I can't believe I missed it, and if all of you say "Well, yeah, I saw that the first time," I'm going to feel very stupid. 'Cause I'm s'posed to be observant about these things. I mean, I'm the one who knew the answer to the HP Trivia Game question "What was sitting outside Hagrid's door the first time the Trio visit him?" (Answer: a crossbow and a pair of wellies, or rubber boots to us Americans). So the fact that I missed this:

"I'm not trying to be a hero, but seriously, Sirius Black can't be worse than Voldemort, can he?" (PoA ch. 5: The Dementor, p. 73, American hardcover edition)

siriusly blows my mind. Am I the only one?

While I'm thinking about canon, and PoA in particular, maybe someone can answer a question I have. I've heard a theory about there being 2 invisible Gryffindor girls that Harry doesn't seem to have noticed at all. This theory is supposedly based on the boggart scene in PoA. Well, I read that scene night before last, and I'm curious. Doesn't the whole theory stem from the fact that the boggart turned into two scary things that don't seem to have a person to account for them? Well, if that's so, then how come the boggart actually turn into three things? Observe:

"Crack! The banshee turned into a rat, which chased its tail in a circle, then--crack!--became a rattlesnake, which slithered and writhed before--crack!--becoming a single, bloody eyeball" (PoA ch. 7, American hardcover edition p. 138).

So if this is the supposed evidence for the two-missing-Gryffindor-girls theory, how come it hasn't been disproven ages ago? Or is there more evidence? I personally think the theory's a bunch of hooey, but if that's what they're basing it off of, why isn't it three missing girls instead of two?

In other news, I've given up on the Austen paper. I would have had to almost completely rewrite it, and I just didn't have enough time. Oh, well. I had a nice chat with Alphabet about some story ideas for IFL, though, so I did do *something* productive.

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Have decided to break my recent tradition of blogging at midnight today. Dad was commenting too much on it.

Forgot to mention something I discovered in canon recently. Did you know that JKR has already done a serious/Sirius joke? I can't believe I missed it, and if all of you say "Well, yeah, I saw that the first time," I'm going to feel very stupid. 'Cause I'm s'posed to be observant about these things. I mean, I'm the one who knew the answer to the HP Trivia Game question "What was sitting outside Hagrid's door the first time the Trio visit him?" (Answer: a crossbow and a pair of wellies, or rubber boots to us Americans). So the fact that I missed this:

"I'm not trying to be a hero, but seriously, Sirius Black can't be worse than Voldemort, can he?" (PoA ch. 5: The Dementor, p. 73, American hardcover edition)

siriusly blows my mind. Am I the only one?

While I'm thinking about canon, and PoA in particular, maybe someone can answer a question I have. I've heard a theory about there being 2 invisible Gryffindor girls that Harry doesn't seem to have noticed at all. This theory is supposedly based on the boggart scene in PoA. Well, I read that scene night before last, and I'm curious. Doesn't the whole theory stem from the fact that the boggart turned into two scary things that don't seem to have a person to account for them? Well, if that's so, then how come the boggart actually turn into three things? Observe:

"Crack! The banshee turned into a rat, which chased its tail in a circle, then--crack!--became a rattlesnake, which slithered and writhed before--crack!--becoming a single, bloody eyeball" (PoA ch. 7, American hardcover edition p. 138).

So if this is the supposed evidence for the two-missing-Gryffindor-girls theory, how come it hasn't been disproven ages ago? Or is there more evidence? I personally think the theory's a bunch of hooey, but if that's what they're basing it off of, why isn't it three missing girls instead of two?

In other news, I've given up on the Austen paper. I would have had to almost completely rewrite it, and I just didn't have enough time. Oh, well. I had a nice chat with Alphabet about some story ideas for IFL, though, so I did do *something* productive.

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Have decided to break my recent tradition of blogging at midnight today. Dad was commenting too much on it.

Forgot to mention something I discovered in canon recently. Did you know that JKR has already done a serious/Sirius joke? I can't believe I missed it, and if all of you say "Well, yeah, I saw that the first time," I'm going to feel very stupid. 'Cause I'm s'posed to be observant about these things. I mean, I'm the one who knew the answer to the HP Trivia Game question "What was sitting outside Hagrid's door the first time the Trio visit him?" (Answer: a crossbow and a pair of wellies, or rubber boots to us Americans). So the fact that I missed this:

"I'm not trying to be a hero, but seriously, Sirius Black can't be worse than Voldemort, can he?" (PoA ch. 5: The Dementor, p. 73, American hardcover edition)

siriusly blows my mind. Am I the only one?

While I'm thinking about canon, and PoA in particular, maybe someone can answer a question I have. I've heard a theory about there being 2 invisible Gryffindor girls that Harry doesn't seem to have noticed at all. This theory is supposedly based on the boggart scene in PoA. Well, I read that scene night before last, and I'm curious. Doesn't the whole theory stem from the fact that the boggart turned into two scary things that don't seem to have a person to account for them? Well, if that's so, then how come the boggart actually turn into three things? Observe:

"Crack! The banshee turned into a rat, which chased its tail in a circle, then--crack!--became a rattlesnake, which slithered and writhed before--crack!--becoming a single, bloody eyeball" (PoA ch. 7, American hardcover edition p. 138).

So if this is the supposed evidence for the two-missing-Gryffindor-girls theory, how come it hasn't been disproven ages ago? Or is there more evidence? I personally think the theory's a bunch of hooey, but if that's what they're basing it off of, why isn't it three missing girls instead of two?

In other news, I've given up on the Austen paper. I would have had to almost completely rewrite it, and I just didn't have enough time. Oh, well. I had a nice chat with Alphabet about some story ideas for IFL, though, so I did do *something* productive.