Do any of you still use LJ? Should I be getting a Dreamwidth account?

(Yes, I'm alive!)

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I thought I only had this problem with *not reading enough real fiction* because of my slight obsession with fan fiction in the middle school/early high school years, but I have slowly come to the realization that maybe it is not that I do not *have time* to read the classics, but that I *do not enjoy* reading the classics ( Read more... )

Sometimes I'm afraid to write heavy-themed original fic because I'm afraid of offending my inspirations.

I am furiously trying (and failing) not to waste time browsing LJ and/or thinking of new fandom SPN (Winchester brothers FTW?!) and glancing at this copy of Catspaw that was just delievered to me from Amazon ( Read more... )

http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1595623/story.jhtml

"SWARTHMORE, Pennsylvania - "I don't know if it went past everybody," began Professor Melinda Finberg, "but what happens when Hermione deceives Umbridge, and she takes her to the Forbidden Forest ( Read more... )

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/07/BUGQ5QSEEJ1.DTL

Spartz and Ben Schoen, a 17-year-old recent high school graduate from Moundridge, Kan., are the lead writers of "What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7,'' which is an ( Read more... )

makes me sort of sick. I'm not talking about the ruling itself -- I haven't studied law and I'm not a judge -- but the comments on the various HP news aggregators that I've seen so far (yes, TLC and HPANA, I'm pointing to you) that all involve some sort of self-congratulatory pats on the back by the self-congratulatory fangirls ( Read more... )

So I have about 150 pages of reading about game theory/decision making for my polisci class, and another 150 pages of reading for this other class that I may or may not decide to take IF I drop sociology. All before the weekend is over.

Wish me luck.

(At least the reading is interesting. The reading for sociology is far less but far more dry.)

Oh my God.

Oh Danny. Oh Derek. Oh Mr. Sweeney. Oh stupid screaming former girlfriend of Derek's.

Someone needs to... damn. Write some fan fiction for this movie. The editing was perfecto, and the characters just unbelievably heart-breaking.

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