victory over boredom and polka dots

Woo-hoo! All done my article, and found a very cute Harry Potter fic: Harry Potter and the Polka Dot Plague, at Bright Shiny Objects, which bear pointed to a few weeks ago.

Yes, Harry Potter - I have now read five, count'em, five, Harry Potter fics! And I can't help noticing that all three of the ones I've read so far at Bright Shiny Objects have been good. Mind you, I'm staying away from the ones whose descriptions engage my insta-squick reflex, but still. Much better than the two other Potterfics in my life. One of them was ::meh:: and the other one kept me teetering between a fetal position under my computer, muttering There is no God, and screaming laughter at the snarky commentary of a previous reader, who, among other things, got increasingly irate at the writer's inability to spell Hermione. I believe it also inexplicably involved marijuana (wha?), and a sudden, startling, and rather obscene alternative use for a broom.

Go read the Polka Dot Plague. Cute. True to the characters, mostly, except for some dialect oopses. And no squick :)

Two little quotes:

Snape stared at him with an expression of pure loathing that would've been quite menacing if not for the polka dots.

I guard the boy's life, and he looks at me as if I'm something he scraped from the bottom of a cauldron. I wear a pair of socks, and he decides I'm "decent." Gryffindors.

insert happy band music here

Happy International Women's Day!

Happy Hand in my Law Review Article Day!

Happy Fanfic Appreciation Day 3!

And happy birthday to !!

And again:

happy birthday to !!

Coulda shoulda

1. Was going to update about my Globalization class this morning, because it was really, really cool. Everybody was going in one direction, and getting more and more wingy, and then at the very height of winginess, two of my classmates took a stand in the exact opposite direction, and did it well and with conviction. Go them :)
   
   
2. Was going to close my eyes, point to my list of fave fanfic authors, and pick three to go fangirly on.
   
   
3. Was going to play the CN Tower Architect skit from The Frantics, make a transcript, and post it.
   
   
4. In RL, I was going to do some laundry and dig us out from the filth that's piled up in the last couple of days.

I did none of the above.

Instead I washed dishes, warmed up dinner, and listened to Chris tell the kids about dendrites. And tried to explain parts of Connie Willis' book, Passage, to them.

Teasers for tomorrow, when I hope the above will be accomplished:

1. The topic was, "Is the ex post facto characterization of the invasion of Iraq as a humanitarian venture justified in light of the human rights abuses (Iraqi and American) that have come to light since the US went in?"
   
   
2. woffproff writes some of the best Lennie lines evah, and her Lennie/Mike (friendship, get your minds out of the gutter) is some of the best out there; I still go back and read snarkhunter's L&O Fic-mas for the poultry and for the lines "Aren't you Jewish?" and "Hear hear!!"; and only bast2 could have made me really, truly, care about Serena. And I still think she needs to put together all her drabbles in the Serena/Rodgers/Lennie arc. It's one of my main motivations for wanting to put together a thursday100plus archive.
   
   
3. "You know, a shlong so big even Rochester could get off on it?" and "Sperm! Sperm!!!"
   
   
4. We have enough laundry to last us to the end of the week if we wear unmatched pajamas and dress socks to school/work. Why worry?