# Torchwood - Since I'm completely crap at predicting plot twists in advance, I should probably stop speculating, but looking at Jack's arc, I can't help wondering what the endgame is. ( spoilers for ep.7 )

Went to see the HP movie with my sister after an advent market visit and a Glühmost, and I don't think it's only due to the pleasant buzz of the first alcoholic drink I've had in something like half a year that I have to take back a lot of my preemptive bitching ( Read more... )

Still alive and rather better, as in, I can actually move and use my right arm again unless I'm trying to lift it above shoulder level. Tired and lethargic though, my stomach isn't happy with the medication, and M. sends me home a lot to rest the arm while I still can, which makes me feel guilty and useless ( Read more... )

Talking with B. was nice, but the HP movie was incredibly dreary. Half-way through I caught myself thinking that maybe CoE had spoiled me for anything less dramatic, but B. completely agreed, so it clearly wasn't that. I don't know how it's even possible to so utterly suck the life and meaning out of a book. The first two thirds or maybe three ( Read more... )

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For real?

I kind of really, really doubt the 'would have told you years ago' part, because even (especially!) after the books had become so hugely popular, her publishers (particularly the American ones) would probably have begged, pleaded, bribed and just about done anything to keep her not only from putting this into the books more explicitly, ( Read more... )

On a less whiney & self-pitying note...

( a couple more DH thoughts & questions )

( First impression Deathly Hallows comments; extremely spoilery (obviously) & embarrassingly rambly )

::closes book::

::breathes again::

( Brief DH first reaction comment; no specific spoilers )

Hm. I think for once I actually do have a goal for next year... For this to be, if at all possible, the last Christmas season in retail. Seriously. I know no job is perfect, but I think I need a change in annoyances. I want to be able to have leisure before Christmas again, go to advent markets, take my time in choosing presents for people, want to ( Read more... )