I'm definitely going.  I submitted two proposals, one as a part of a panel and one singleton.  Keep your fingers crossed for me, because the solo one is something I've been dying to say for years, the ways in which Lupin speaks for "people like me ( Read more... )

I called the Loew's Portofino this AM and the guy on the phone was really nice and I scored one of the very last rooms at the convention rate.  BOOYAH.  Then I thought for a second and I remembered, "Oh, yeah.  Weren't the Loew's hotels in Orlando the ones who started treating the cats on the property badly like total assholes ( Read more... )

I'm going to Ascendio after all!  I will probably have to mug a little old lady to go there, but I will get there.  I haven't registered yet, and I'll be submitting a presentation proposal later today, and I hope hope hope that they can squeeze me in.  (Note to programming committee:  I'll take anything.  Honestly ( Read more... )

Sooo, now I hear Ascendio is the last, absolutely the very last conference.  And I did not apply to do the formal programming thing, and can't go unless I do.  It's a professional issue: I need to be able to say "yes, I did an actual conference useful thing." I was supposed to run a London program, and didn't find out until a few weeks ago that it ( Read more... )

Isn't that great?  I'm scheduled to teach the Harry Potter class again next year, and it's also in the pipeline to be in the catalog permanently ( Read more... )

My Harry Potter class! The whole course! Which has been going beautifully, so far.  The students seem to love it, which is only fair, because honestly, they are making it.  It works because they know the texts cold and they are smart and very fabulous.  Plus, the "official" school magazine came and interviewed us, and they put it in this article: ( Read more... )

 But there was something in DH 2 that made me very, very, very, VERY happy.

And I am dying to hear from all the Snape fans to hear what they think.  I don't hang around much, but I do pimp Snapecast whenever I can (one of my students actually KNEW about Snapecast.  I was thrilled!)

Only hard core people ask things like "where was the goat?"

 So now that the quarter is over, I can finally get to revising my werewolf stuff.  Which is about time, because I have way, way too much material and I can barely figure out how to organize it all.

Since my last one at Infinitus was on why 2010 was the Year of the Werewolf, I looked a bit into the YA/paranormal romance/werewolf fiction items, and ( Read more... )

 I will bet anything that this is something my students say to each other. “Dude, trust me: do not get her started on The Lion King."

So since I was planning to go out dancing tonight and hurt my wrist and elbow so badly that I don't want to drive, and seeing as how I am on pain killers anyway, I figured I would just stick this  out there on the ( Read more... )

Well, droxy said take pictures, to which one can only answer "yes, m'am."  So I did.  
I had to replace my cheap old camera because you can't get flash cards for my cheap old camera anymore.  That is how old it is.  So I got a very cheap young camera.

Our English honors society, Sigma Tau Delta, asked if I would attend their Potter-themed meeting.  So I ( Read more... )