Okay, for the second time, I've decided this blog isn't working.  Cruise on over to my blogspot one, and see what's going on.

Continuing on after my Blogspot Narnia-based entry.

I am sick and tired of being the persecuted Left's whipping boy.  I am sick and tired of being accused by wounded ex-Catholics of complicity in everything the Church has ever done, from the Spanish Inquisition to making them feel bad for not helping their mothers enough.  I am sick and tired of it ( Read more... )

Double-post from Blogspot - all the gruesome details of the weekend!

( I'm beginning to think Withnail is right. )

Attempting to attach shelf to wall.  Problems with this include uncooperative screwdrivers that keep slipping out of the groove, screws that insist on launching themselves across the room whenever I come near them, holes that require my sticking an EYELINER PENCIl through them to mark the space on the wall I should screw because they're too small ( Read more... )

( If you can find me ... )

An old story, posted here for the first time.

Pairing: SB/RL, JP/RL.

Summary: Remus wants Sirius, James wants to think about his future, and Sirius wants to make bets on it all.  Includes angst, gay werewolves, barely-legal sex, and Sirius swears a lot.

Disclaimer: Characters have wandered from J.K. Rowling's head into mine and taken up residence ( Read more... )

Pictures of Bonfire Night are now up on the Blogspot Blog, as are pictures of the move from Princeton, narrated as a Mummer's Play.

And now, for your amusement, a list of topics covered during the Great Expat And Englishmen Thanksgiving Dinner yesterday afternoon.

1. The flatmate's sexuality (inadvertently).

2. The fact that the table was arranged ( Read more... )

But instead, I'm filling out this book meme from bironic .

( Procrastination is your friend! )

This owes its existence to copperbadge 's longfic "Cartographer's Craft," in which a sixteen-year-old version of Sirius Black emerges from the Marauders' Map and proceeds to, among other things, embark on an affair with Harry.

I tried fitting both Ron and Draco in instead of Sirius, but it wasn't happening.

( Scars )

... alternative subject heading, "The Postman Cometh."

At 8:00 this morning, the postman dropped by (he did, in fact, ring twice) with a parcel of Christmas gifties to me and the flatmate, from

bironic , who now officially rocks.

However, this charming little domestic incident would have been much better, all told, if I hadn't been naked at the time.

And ( Read more... )