11 2/3", Oak, Veela
You scored 63 wisdom, 22 bravery, 10 emotional, and 16 martyrdom! Oak signifies wisdom, endurance, protection, and authority. The veela hair as a wand core means that you are slightly unpredictable but very powerful.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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It's time for an update ( Read more... )

I'm tired. This has been one dramatic week. I don't really feel like writing everything out, even if I were to use an lj-cut, but here's a summary: Sunday - I took two students to visit the On-site Coordinator for disciplinary reasons and then had to calm down the one who became hysteric after that conference. One of my girls' parents called to ( Read more... )

Well, I haven't updated in awhile...mainly because I haven't had much happen to update about. However, I'm bored now and figure I might be able to find something mildly interesting to write about ( Read more... )

Okay, so I normally wouldn't post two times in one day, but today shall have to be an exception. Right now I am sitting out on our screened-in porch (it's in the low 60s right now - deliciously cool), listening to the light pitter-patter of rain, and reading by the light of an oil lamp. It has a very Appalachian feel to it. Well, except for the ( Read more... )

I'd forgotten how much I love Kansas thunderstorms... I can count on one hand the t-storms we experienced in VA this school year and, aside from the eerie lightning in the fog one evening, none of them were very spectacular. Well, I've been back in Kansas for one day and we've already had one tornado watch, one severe-thunderstorm warning, and I ( Read more... )

I was talking to my parents today when they mentioned something highly amusing: Extreme Ironing. Evidently this is one of the latest of the stream of Extreme sports and is gaining in popularity in Great Britain. It involves ironing in extremely inconvenient places - half-way up a sheer rock-face for example. You get points for the extremeness of ( Read more... )

I brought this upon myself when I saw it on shadydave's journal ( Read more... )

I AM THROUGH WITH ORGO!!!!! (at least for this semester ( Read more... )

W&M has a "tradition" in which all students are supposed to complete the triathalon before they graduate. This involves ( Read more... )