I'm home and have actually given myself a day off.  It feels wonderful.

I found a fanfic recently that I am adoring.  I was delighted to find today that it has been updated twice since I left town:

Harry Potter & The Legion of Ghosts by
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So, I finished the book.  Wow.

I've posted my initial thoughts on it over at hpbook7thoughts .  I know we'll have lots of discussions going on over there in the days to come about it.

Last night I met up with angelicus and muffinkath7 over at Angel's house where we hung out and gabbed before going out to eat and gab and then stand in line for the book and gab.  I left them at the ( Read more... )

Here's another one to occupy our minds:

Does a person have to be filled with bitterness and hate in order to cast an unforgivable?

If so, does that mean Harry is or is not capable of casting an unforgivable curse such as Avada Kedavra?  If not, how will he destroy Voldemort?

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So apparently there are scans out there of Deathly Hallows already.  What a shame!  For the record, for those of you who have read them, thank you very much for not telling me what's in them. Please don't even tell me how you got them or what your impressions are, alrighty?  Even knowing they exist is probably not the best idea for me, considering ( Read more... )

I'm traveling so much lately for work (every weekend) that I'm currently walking around like some sort of zombie, and am barely aware of my surroundings, much less what is happening online.

So for those of you rightfully annoyed because I haven't been by
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Many thanks for your email. I can tell you that Bloomsbury does indeed distribute books in the Bahamas and it is not exclusive to Scholastic. I can tell you that one confirmed retailer who has placed an order with us:

BOOKWORLD & STATIONERS LTD
THE WONG'S CENTRE
P.O. BOX N-621
MACKEY STREET
NASSAU, BAHAMAS

The UK version is fine with me. 
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Alrighty. First, I must sincerely apologize because I'm afraid this is going to throw some of you for a huge loop.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, my tax refund this year wound up being 1/5 of what we had anticipated.  So rather than having enough to get Ethan his braces, pay off bills and get me to Boston, we won't even have enough to pay for ( Read more... )

One of the other chicks in my office made a comment the other day about how busy the weekend of July 21st was shaping up to be.  We have some national acts in one state, a big corporate event in another, and the possibility of another big client event God-knows where ( Read more... )

So Boston it is.

Here's our lineup, as I understand it:

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Alright, here are the results from our earlier poll:

Where shall we meet?

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