I'm amazed, my IQ is the same as it was when I was a teenager. I always heard it went down as you get older. Must be a myth. (What's that? -- A myth, myth! -- Yeth?)


( Read more... )

Ooh, I just thought of something ( Read more... )

Drumroll...

** Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows **

So, everyone and their brother has their pet theory about this title, and so do I. ( Here we go: )

I've finally got my very first non-7th-book plot bunny!

Imagine Percy, a la James Bond, in Harry's 4th year, with his thin-bottomed cauldron fanaticism, trying to rid the world of thin-bottomed cauldrons and saving Neville's life in the process?

I can hear the James Bond theme now.

Too funny.

Actually, things are going really well this last couple weeks regarding the weight loss. I've lost about 8 pounds since Loscon (Thanksgiving) and it's not as hard as I was afraid it would be. I think I'm just in a "zone" of sorts, one that won't let me eat a lot, and is making me drink water, and stuff like that. I figure most of that is water ( Read more... )

Just taking my new LJ style out for a spin. What'cha'll think? It "needs work," but I think it's at a good stopping place for tonight.

I have a couple ( Harry Potter questions. )

Here's the link to page containing the list of "books every [sci-fi/fantasy] writer should have on their bookshelf" that I got at the Loscon panel I went to last week. Just click on the "Download PDF" link for the list.

http://www.lightriders.com/writing/

Jon and I went to Loscon (LA's main sci/fi con) last weekend and had a really great time, despite some issues with his mother who went as well.

( My adventures at Loscon... )

I've been having a lot of existential angst lately, and for a while now, about whether or not JKR is going to kill Harry. I'm actully becoming quite depressed about it. Not only am I afraid that someone I care a great deal about is going to snuff it, in my more lucid and more practical moments I remember it's just a book but then become afraid ( Read more... )