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More election pamphlets through the door today, one urging me Votail Sinn Fein. No, thanks. I noticed that they listed their policies in bullet points; there would be perhaps six English, then one in Irish, then another four English, one in Irish etc. My theory is that the ones like 'Deport all Protestants' were cunningly put into Irish.

However, it burned with exciting blue-green flames (because of all the green ink they use) and a satisfactory and suitably explosive whoomph.

BTW, is anyone else noticing difficulties in posting comments? I keep getting errors.

I'm re-reading CoS at the minute, and I was struck by Dobby's saying there are powers Dumbledore doesn't...powers no decent wizard...

One little line, but we know so much more about it since HBP.

On that theme, happy birthday, Ron!

My family is feeding the neighbours cat, Daisy (male. The three-year-old named it) while they are away. My mam went down to feed it, and who should be waiting for her but Muffin. Now we know where his gut came from. I'm calling him 'Double Diner'.

Last night I kept dreaming that I was counting something. I would wake up and go back to dreaming the same dream again. It gives you a feeling of not having slept at all.

This site, linked to by marionravenwood, reminded me of Pterry saying that entire economies are based on the lifting power of Chinese grannies. Add a bicycle and she's good for an empire!

snarkel posted a link to an article on posting real-life stuff on the internet.
When I first got online, the internet was strictly for fandom. No real name, no what-I-had-for-breakfast, no photos. Then I got onto LJ and discovered the joys of venting about my day. Then my friends all got online too, moved on from emails to social networking sites, so I have ended up with two parallel lots of info online, fandom and real life. (I still haven't put any photos online, naked or otherwise, apart from cats).

At first, I was more concerned about keeping my offline life away from my fandom, but now I suppose I have to keep my fandom away from my real life. I've got a bit careless over the years, too (sending emails to the flist with my full name on the account, stuff like that), and there's a couple of people who've always known about both. But even right back at the beginning, if I wanted to make a disposable identity, it would be my mam's name, my dad's name, my middle names, my nicknames (my family do actually call me Owl)....

The thought of being permanantly Gogglable, in all your teenage glory, is pretty yuckworthy. Then if someone cottons on: 'Oh, wasn't that jediowl's real name? At least someone who's trying to cash in on their fandom in RL, a la Cassandra Claire, asks for it.

I made a poll to check this. I screened comments, so if you feel like posting my name, address and phone number, go ahead. :-P

[Poll #931572]

How do you explain 'blessed' to 4-6 year olds?

Today's the day for starting a chapter-a-day re-read of HP if you want to finish in time for Deathly Hallows.

Anna Nicole Smith has died. I haven't seen so much fuss over cause of death since Diana died.
Perhaps now we can finally hear the last of Jade Goody? It's astonishing how people stay famous for being famous, especially when they became famous for something like a reality show in the first place.

Oh, and when the news hit ohnotheydidnt, it BRAKE TEH INTARWEBZ LiveJournal

Oh, and it looks like we'll finally be getting a list of tags to choose from on the update page at some point. Only about two years behind...

I noticed whenever I was doing this year's subscriptions for the church youth magazine how much we've been blessed by growth: when I started doing the subs, 2 or 3 years ago, there were four copies. Now there are 13.

Gakked from ankaret



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2007 is 1/12 over. I don't think I even got around to making any resolutions this year, let alone attempting to keep them. :)