thank you very much for all of the birthday suggestions, everyone. i ended up buying dark chocolate and a cravat, and the raised eyebrows were minimal! it was a smashing success ( Read more... )

i'm sure all of you have calendars (and look at them from time to time) but in case you don't: it is very nearly spring! hurrah! i am very ready to retire my winter coat and boots. this is partly because i'm looking forward to warmer (and drier, it's very damp out right now) weather and partly because i've learned that dark winter clothes seem to ( Read more... )

i've never been to a valentine's day party except for once when i was about nine and it was for daddy's work. it wasn't very fun though and mostly i just stood with my parents in my nice dress and we went home before nine o' clock and from what i've seen on these journals that isn't proper party behaviour.

umm. anyroad. james and sirius have a ( Read more... )

today was a very, very good saturday! i spent the day in diagon alley, which i rarely do. it's slightly sad, actually, i trot through wizarding london nearly every day to get to work but i almost never linger. it was extremely crowded and people were jostling about and grabbing at things and it was very exciting indeed ( Read more... )

i think i've just burned off my finger prints. this is extremely painful.

tea fetching is not in my job description, anyway! there should at least be potholders provided!!

i haven't written in a spell (ha), mostly because i've been busy but unfortunately all the things i've been busy with have been very, very boring things. most of them have had to do with work and, thus, there was a lot of filing involved. actually, pretend you didn't read that dull, filing part -- and, while you're pretending, you can just pretend ( Read more... )

i suppose there's no real harm in writing at work when there's no actual work being done. everyone is buzzing about the new ministry regulations regarding the use of Unforgiveables. the way they talk you would think that it's affecting each of them us directly, but somehow i do doubt that anyone would pick one of them us to help protect the atrium ( Read more... )

things i need from the market:1) havarti ( Read more... )