First, the physical: I went to a town called Bridgeport (or something like that) today. The drive was horrible; I have motion-sickness issues, and the winding, up-and-down country roads don't agree with my stomach. Even though I took Gravol, I still felt a little queasy ( Read more... )

Better than the opposite, right?

My presentation to my supervisors went down really well today; one even used the word "amazing" :) Which is amazing in itself, given that I procrastinated my butt off all summer and did a month's work in less than a week.

On the fanfic side, I can't post the next chapter of Anomie! FF.net won't let me! Every time ( Read more... )

It suddenly occurred to me this week just how much I have to do before my presentation to my supervisors on Monday for my thesis. I'm in total panic!!!

Just got Anomie back from my beta reader, and I'd love to post it, but I literally have zero free time until Monday evening, so we'll see...:(

My mother and I took two of our three cats to the vet today for their booster shots. The two cats in question are Pandora, age 11, and Mr Yowlee (name self-explanatory), age 10. The vet we have is really, really nice - and hot too, which is a bonus :)

( Vet visit #1 )

About two minutes after I woke up, I got a call from a professor I do some work for. He's in New Zealand right now, and he called to catch me up on all the stuff he wants me to do by the end of the month (i.e. before he gets back). Well, that was great, except when the call was over, I was left with twenty minutes to get ready for the movie. I am ( Read more... )

...But on the plus side, I'm about 60% finished chapter thirty-one of SS.

I thought that Simulacrum Seal had lost the ability to surprise me, but it seems not. I ended up doing something very different from what I intended in this chapter. I was planning for Lily to make another appearance, but something else occurred to me that makes far more ( Read more... )

Title: Anomie
Pairings: Harry/Voldemort, Harry/Ginny (established relationship), Ron/Hermione (established relationship)
Summary: Nearly a decade post-Hogwarts, Harry's Quidditch career is failing, his marriage to Ginny is on the rocks, and even his friendship with Ron is strained. Lord Voldemort, having lost all his magical powers, has been ( Read more... )

Title: Anomie
Pairings: Harry/Voldemort, Harry/Ginny (established relationship), Ron/Hermione (established relationship)
Summary: Nearly a decade post-Hogwarts, Harry's Quidditch career is failing, his marriage to Ginny is on the rocks, and even his friendship with Ron is strained. Lord Voldemort, having lost all his magical powers, has been ( Read more... )

Yesterday I discovered a fic I need to beta read, four days old, in my junk email folder. What the HELL are Hotmail's junk standards anyway?! I get a half-dozen junk emails every week that aren't caught by the filter, and then stuff I actually WANT to read (including FA Owls, apparently, since I found one of those too) is classified as junk. I ( Read more... )

It was a delicate situation: a Muggle man murdered via the Killing Curse on a crowded London street in broad daylight. The man, as yet unidentified, had toppled over like a tilting plank into other Muggles, the murderer had Apparated away, and the noise had drawn even more attention. When Ron got there, pedestrians were still shrilling that the man ( Read more... )