I'm listening to HBP as I pack tonight. I think it would be perfect for a Mastercard commercial:
iPod: $300
Dell desktop speakers: $100
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on CD: $75
Jim Dale singing "A Cauldron Full of Hot Strong Love": Priceless
I also listened to the chapter with Slughorn's first class, and was struck anew by something ( Read more... )

My book group has a complicated system for picking books. Each person picks five and submits them to the group. Everyone votes for their favorite, and the book with the most votes is chosen. The upside to this system is that everyone gets to pick a book now and then; the downside is that we have to come up with five books. Last year I could only ( Read more... )

1. I got a haircut tonight, and as I sat in the salon, I was mentally drafting a post about how much I hate getting my hair cut. I had plenty of time to do this, because my stylist was running half an hour late. I was hungry, I was tired, and I didn't want to be there.

Thing is, I like the way my hair turned out. So much for that rant ( Read more... )

After the friending frenzy, I saw a few posts soliciting readers' opinions about what they'd like to see more of in a journal. I am in awe of this incredibly service-minded style of journaling; I'm afraid my f-list is stuck with whatever comes into my head when I sit down at my keyboard ( Read more... )

My upstairs neighbor was locked out of his apartment, so he just stopped by to ask if he could climb through my bedroom window to the fire escape to get in that way. Of course my apartment is an atrocious wreck. *sigh* I hear footsteps above me, so I guess he got in all right.

During a department lunch today, I mentioned that according to a recent ( Read more... )

I said in my last post that I should stock up on Spam, so here's my first poll. Thanks to flourish_leslie for the idea.

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