HUZZAH! I have not been defeated by my own stupidity, nor will I spend the next two days checking the Pottermore website every five seconds in case the clue goes live! (Which I couldn't have done, anyway, as I'll be in the car all day tomorrow and attending a wedding on Saturday.) I am IN! Hooray ( Read more... )

So, by setting an early alarm on a workday morning (and taking Joe's advice re: when to set it - thanks, Joe), I got into Pottermore. Went back to bed super-happy ( Read more... )

This summer has been pretty awesome ( Read more... )

So I had to walk to the store, and my brain was like, "I don't waaant to walk to the store! It's hooot out and I've already gone to the gyyym!" (Some of that might have actually been my feet, rather than my brain ( Read more... )

(You can tell last night was awesome because my tongue is still blue. I do not want to know what they use to color Airheads candy. No I do not ( Read more... )

OH MY GOSH GUYS HARRY POTTER TONIGHT!!! :D ( Read more... )

The good:

Last night's Glee reminded me of why I watch the show in the first place. Go, Kurt, live the dream! I love that Kurt discovers a place with a strict no-harassment policy. He and Blaine make great points about how authority figures sometimes react to bullying. Also, Blaine! And Kurt! Adorableness ( Read more... )

Just finished watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in Spanish. At one point, Ron's "Bloody hell," is translated to, literally, "But what devils was that?" Also, Spanish doesn't have as many words as English, so the Yule Ball is called the Yule Dance, which means that McGonagall's line is, "The Yule Dance is, first and foremost . . . a ( Read more... )

A squirrel with half a hamburger bun in his mouth just climbed the tree outside my window, wedged the bun into the branches, and climbed down. There is now half a hamburger bun in the tree level with my second-floor window. The squirrel, I presume, is harvesting the rest of someone's barbecue leftovers ( Read more... )

Tomorrow morning, when I have to get up early, I'm going to regret staying up to write this, but right now I feel like commenting.

Dad and I just rewatched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I'd only seen it maybe twice before, and that was a long time ago, so it felt almost new to me. I enjoyed it a lot more than before. In particular ( Read more... )