Growing up outside of the beltway and having parents who worked for the government, I developed an admittedly unhealthy interest in politics. It has been a joy and a bane of my not-so-long life, something I hate to love and love to hate. And finally, for the first time I can remember (since I was little girl and got to watch Reagan's inauguration ( Read more... )

While most tweens and college-age Utah girls (pretty much the same thing) pine and sigh with love over the Twilight series, I have found community amongst a small band of resistant comrades who are the last bastion of sanity in a twilight-obsessed Utah. (We actually found problems with the book, gasp! We actually think the writing is atrocious and ( Read more... )

More good stuff, I just had to share! More on epilogue spoilers, what the last sentence was supposed to be, a good book 7 summary online and an amusing comparison summary of the whole series, and good articles too, can be found after the cut.

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Mugglenet had a link about the Today Show interview, which apparently I missed yesterday?; Rowling reveals more about what Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Luna are up to during the epilogue!

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So I had picked these out in my head, but didn't realize that I had never posted them! Bleh. Here are my sites of the month for May thru July; all of them are blogs, and darn good ones.

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According to this article, Rowling IS (hopefully) going to be creating a HP encyclopedia chock full of character backstories (Like Dean Thomas' and the Weasley's; go to the extras (the brush) on her site if you haven't been there yet to read about them) and fill us in on more of the stuff she didn't fit in to the epilogue. I had hoped she would do ( Read more... )

Lazzchan had a quiz that looked like fun; here's supposedly what wand I would get if I stepped into Ollivander's. Sounds good, but the fertility thing is odd.

Your Score: 12", Holly, Dragon

You scored 47 wisdom, 27 bravery, 21 emotional, and 16 martyrdom!

Holly is a powerful protective wood that good for use ( Read more... )

( My Take on Book 7-Includes Spoilers, Duh! )

Woot! We got to see Order of the Phoenix this morning at 10:45! I was gonna wait a while, but the university bookstore had a bunch of tickets. Good thing; the more I thought about it, the more waiting till today got difficult ( Read more... )

It seems today that we are on a threshold of decisions to be made concerning digital technology, the internet, and its place in our modern world. One of the most exciting aspects of this-that we are constantly charting new waters and forging new paths-is also the scariest, because it is the choices we pioneers make now regarding those paths that ( Read more... )