It's been a quiet week. I've been even more in my shell than usual lately -- just feeling introverted. I'm sorry for having disappeared entirely from cyberspace in that time. I'm feeling flu-ish today, and the weather outside is balmy -- -15 Celsius downtown, going down to -38 Celsius (no windchill) in some of the suburbs.

I've been reading ( Read more... )

It's Valentine's Day today. I'll spare you the full force of my bitterness -- I haven't had a non-disastrous date in about 5 years. However, I think I am adopting my roommate's name for it -- Dies Irae, the Day of Wrath ( Read more... )

I was going to wish people a Happy Yule yesterday, but the Internet connection here was down.

So Happy Yule!

In other news, J.K. Rowling announced the title of the last Harry Potter book on the Solstice, just as she did for the 6th book last year

( Cut because there's a puzzle on her site to find it out )