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Funny enough to share: How to have a one-night stand

Then, wake up in the morning and realize that someone you know or don’t know or sort of know is in your bed. Register that that is strange. Almost against nature. Play a game where you pretend like you’re a huge creep and stare at their face while they sleep. Acting is fun!

Check to see if you have an embarrassing book on your bedside table: It’s Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince. Eff.

Carefully get up so as not to wake the person next to you and quickly switch out Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince with one of your two unread copies of Infinite Jest. Throw Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince out the window but note where it lands so you can pick it up later.

Read the rest here. I could sort of relate: in the unlikely event one-night stand were to ever happen to me, this is exactly how the book thing would go down.

* Well, with great promotions come great responsibility. For the first time in my life, I am in a job where I have to work at home some evenings just to keep up. Normally, I would disapprove, except this is really a good opportunity, and ... um, they're paying me pretty well. On the downside, I'm reading nothing but reports on cauldron bottom thickness and the like. Dry as hell.

* Muchas smoochas to droxy and literaryspell for the cute blue dragons!

* One of the smallish posters left over from the birthday party is a close-up picture of Severus and Draco, with Hermione Granger hovering in the background. An inexplicable trio for a canon poster, wouldn't you say? However, it reminds me powerfully of one of my favorite triadfics, laurielover1912's  The Authority of Truth. So now it's up on my bulletin board where I can see it all the time, and nobody outside of my head (and now my flist) knows why.

Please don't take offense - it's all i can think to call them. must be punchy.

 

today is the harry potter birthday party! i made these horcruxes out of thrift store finds.

 

what they lack in class, they'd make up for in good humor.

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I have a new 40-something coworker, and she is already distinguished in my mind because she likes Harry Potter. I don't know about you, but in my little world, such a woman is rare.

We all went out to lunch today, and I mentioned that my daughter had settled on a theme for her birthday: Harry Potter Quincinera.*

The new coworker said, "Omigod, I love Harry Potter. Absolutely love." Just like that! Right out loud! Her potential as a friend rose exponentially. However, she's not quite as HP-obsessed as I am. For one thing, she hasn't read the books. "I'm saving them," she says. For what?? That's unfathomable. Still, it's a start. And if anybody can exhort her to get moving on the books, it's me.

*Remember she was trying to choose between them? Well, she went ahead and combined them. I asked her what she envisions such a party looking like. "Fluffy dresses, Taco Bell and a Horcrux scavenger hunt," she replied. This is why I like her so much. In other news, we have to make seven or eight** Horcruxes between now and February 18 and prepare to hide them throughout the neighborhood. So don't go anywhere.

** Do you think I could talk a boy into painting a lightning bolt on his forehead and skulking around a few streets away from here, waiting to get caught?

My daughter's 15th birthday is coming up, and she's trying to settle on a theme for a party here at our house. Last night at dinner, she and her friend Jessica kicked around the idea of a Harry Potter theme, possibly combined with a movie marathon. The groom and I waxed enthusiastic at the idea. We could turn the front door into Platform 9 3/4! We could sort the party guests into houses! He and I immediately got into a sidebar discussion about wiring a Sorting Hat with a microphone. In the process, we probably scared away our client, i.e., the birthday girl. You remember how scary it used to be when the adults in your life Got Hold of a Good Idea.

For those of you following teddyradiator's fantastic story Lay Me Low, take a look at this gorgeous manip by bulletimescully.

* Thanks and a big *squish*  (whatever that is!) to rivertempest for sending me a virtual gift of a big blue spider. It was really sweet, my dear! But I still will have to be cleaned up after your current fic is finished ...

* Mugglenet has posted deleted scenes from Deathly Hallows Pt. 2. My dear Lupin shows up for only about 6.5 seconds ... and he's hugging my rival, that detested interloper, Tonks ... but it's totally worth it.

* Yesterday at work, the office craft group got together for lunch. And someone brought along a WIP - an inexplicable affair involving raffia, autumn-colored flowers, a glue gun, and a cinnamon-scented broomstick. I'm sure it's going to be pretty, but at the time, all I could think was, Madame Hooch would never allow scented broomsticks on the Quidditch pitch. I get HP on the brain at odd moments, and I can't confide in anybody but you people.

* Borrowing from droxy and savine_snape, I made the above avatar at Anime Me. It actually looks a whole lot like me ... does that mean I have a cartoon face?

Okay, this made me laugh out loud and satisfied my mood for meta: Death Becomes Her. [link fixed] Short and funny. Go and read.

I've been conversing with someone on Reddit who ships Remus/Tonks. Which is a nice pairing, and I've nothing against it, but I'm feeling just a bit threatened all the same. Tonks, in my mind, is kind of a flaky and doesn't deserve my dear Remus. She just can't hold a candle to Hermione. (Gosh, Jules, project-much?)

Anyway, this Redditor challenged me to read Consequences in order to prove her point about Tonks' potential. It's a well-paced, engaging NTRL, with strong characters, and it appears (at least so far) canon-compliant, which is kind of a literary bonus. So I recommend it, too.

Didn't I already read this in a fan fiction? :-)