It has been hellishly hot here . . . and it's even worse not that much farther south.  My mother said that it was 107℉  (about 42℃) where she is today.  I hope that those of you stuck in places where the Summer heat has gone haywire have a place to go to stay cool.   I am currently sitting in the not terribly comfortable dance studio, tempted to ( Read more... )

Greetings from my family reunion!  Most of my kinfolk on my father's side of the family are out playing golf.  I am lounging at the pool with the younger set, trying to stay shaded so that I don't end up frying to a crisp even through my SPF75 sunscreen (yes, I am a redhead and we should come with warning labels).  :-P

Today's Chapter is about Harry ( Read more... )

Off schedule already.  ::facepalm::  Well, I do have a good excuse.  I have been spending the last couple of days brainstorming with a colleague half a continent away on a potential collaboration in which we bring complimentary approaches to a very vexing scientific problem - one all but abandoned by the big labs because it requires a long term ( Read more... )

I really enjoyed the responses to yesterday's post, and I promise I will respond to them after I get the day's chores done.  But I wanted to get this posted before I have to disappear into staff meeting for hours. ::moans::

( Chapter 2: In Memorium )

 Today and for the next 36 posts, the subject of this space will be a chapter of, what is for me the most problematic book in the entire Harry Potter series:  The Deathly Hallows.  I am not going to write these posts pretending that I can un-know what I know, so on the remote chance that there are are any of my flisties who *haven't* read DH and ( Read more... )