I have some unexpected time off from work, and I fell into reading some old Harry Potter fanfic. And when I say old, I mean it.


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That Harry Potter fanfic series that I've been reading for a while, the one that's longer than all the books? I have to give up on it ( Read more... )

It's no secret that I like reality TV (of the cooking contest variety, not the stupid people behaving badly kind), but American reality TV is just getting nastier and nastier. I do NOT want to see people screaming at each other, insulting each other, fighting, etc. The Great British Bake Off showed me that I could find what I wanted in reality TV ( Read more... )

Been five days since my last post. While I've been reading my friends list, I haven't felt like posting. Lots of points in semi-random order ( Read more... )

I came to share a video, only to find LJ looks totally different. Different font (ugh, harder to read), different menus. I wish they'd stop changing things! My eyes suck, never before have I been annoyed at font being too big, but it's just too big. Blah.

Anyway! I've loved this string quartet's version of Coldplay's Yellow forever. Seriously, ( Read more... )

Okay, writers of the world, I missed a memo somewhere, didn't I? For some reason "murmur" is now the in thing to do? Doesn't matter if it's appropriate or not, we should just shove it in everywhere we can ( Read more... )

Looks like the option to include fanfic in my 50 book per year effort passed. Since that's the case, I decided I needed to check the wordcount and make sure this fic I'm reading really is novel length.

How many words does the average novel have? Unsurprisingly there is no one answer, but from wiki: ...lists novels as typically being between 100, ( Read more... )

The good: I love this Japanese commercial. I only wish it were longer! ...and that we had gum that made me feel this way.

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The bad: Star Wars: a NUDE Hope: An Erotic Parody on Amazon. Cover image might be considered NWS if you work in a church or kindergarten class? It made me snicker.

The ugly: Give the one you love a dead horse head pillow. ( Read more... )

Darned LJ, I wanted to post last night and the site was so down that the domain name didn't even seem to exist.

Oh well! Two related, non-health things:

Oh darned WIP fics! avocado_love wrote two Avengers fics and they're both WIP and they're both eating my brain because they're so good and I want to know MORE MORE MORE but there's no more to read yet ( Read more... )

The net was atwitter with word that Netflix now had Avengers, and I wanted to see it again, plus I knew that Netflix is always giving away 30 day free as a trial, so I signed up. I intended to cancel within the 30 days, but know what? If I watch even one movie, the $9 ($8?) a month is worth it ( Read more... )