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So, um, has anybody got an AO3 invite I could have?

So, ok, I live in an apartment building off one off the local highways, which is kind of the main drag through my city. I actually kind of really like the location--I'm super close to two grocery stores, the public library, public pool, two coffee shops, my hair dresser, etc, and while having the parking lot let off onto the highway is occasionally problematic (like at 7:30 in the morning), it's really nice in the winter because they clear the snow here first. The other thing that makes it nice in the winter is that the city decorates the trees that line the street with lights and hang snowflakes made out of lights off the streetlamps. Very pretty. Usually they alternate the trees, stringing the lights around the trunk of one tree and then in the branches of the next for the first four or so blocks (where the trees are bigger) and then just in the branches of the little trees near my apartment. This creates a neat visual effect at night as you look down the road, where it looks like you have half as many trees and all of them are fully decorated.

This year, however, they have simply wrapped the trunks of every single tree until they got to the little ones. Which. . . well, when it's dark you can't see the branches at all, so it looks like the road is lined with weird, eight foot tall posts. They've put the lights up over the very bottoms of the lowest branches, too, so the strange lit posts all have three or four tines of lights coming out of the tops, like mutant forks stuck in the side of the road.

On the whole, I'm not impressed.

There's something about supermarkets at midnight that feels like you should be in a sad-girl movie montage or establishing shot. Maybe it's just me. Empty parking lot and shlubby clothes you've either just pulled on or have been wearing all day and really belong in a hamper by now, hair's in a mess, and there are just three or four people in the whole massive building, but you're still patting at it to make it lie flat and trying for the sassy, confidant walk, like you're trying to give off an air of "just popping in for a bit of milk for the cereal in the morning, totally classy, absolutely not eyeing the discount candies and contemplating wine coolers." And maybe it's even true, but there's something about the midnight supermarket with it's too bright lights and the furtive glances of the other shoppers that suggests you're just putting on a front and you're totally going back to your ridiculously messy apartment--empty of life except for the cat who will be thrilled you've come back and demand a share of the milk--where you will sit alone with the internet for hours when you should be in bed. Over tired, listening to the squeal of the train going past outside the window, trying to think deep thoughts or trying not to.

Then again, could just be me.

Exhausted and on my way to bed, plus I'm not allowed to do deep thoughts this late at night because I always end up getting depressed, but there was something totally closure-tastic and meta-wonderful about going to the midnight premier of the last one on my own. Will maybe talk about it tomorrow--fandom milestones and stuff--and maybe actually talk about the movie, but for now...

<3

That is all.

So, local theater is, of course, doing midnight showing of HP. Apparently, though, they have ALREADY SOLD OUT the 2D version. So... do I risk splitting headaches to see it in 3D or wait until the next day?

ETA: I got the last ticket at less-local theater!!! -dances-

Friends in/near Chicago, marrog and erindubitably are stranded in O'Hare, and they're not even sure for how long. If there's any help you can offer a pair of good friends who are in dire straits at the moment, comment/email/text/Twitter/whatever me and I'll try and get you in contact with them?

The lovely ladies were good enough to host me in Scotland, if you or somebody you know could help, it'd be much appreciated.

Take:
1 large container cottage cheese
3-4 stalks spring onions
pinch of pepper (to taste)

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-Dice onions.
-Add onions and pepper to cottage cheese.
-Mix well.
-NOM.

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In other news, spring provides many opportunities for tasty noms, but also provides many opportunities for death!allergies. I need approximately eight billion more tissues than I currently have, and also for the landscapers at my apartment building to stop mowing the grass every morning so I can breathe again...

So, given it's summer, I now have all this free time, and I finally figured out the local pool schedule, I've been contemplating getting a pass and trying to go regularly. Figured I'd pay one or two days individually and see how I like the pool and how it works into my schedule before dropping the big money, so I wandered over there today. Like it quite a bit, but definitely overdid it, given I hadn't been swimming for real in years, and at all since the accidental dunking last summer. Walked home and stupidly decided upon a shower before food, and my body let me know in no uncertain terms that that was a bad idea when I almost collapsed while drying off. But, aside from me being stupid, I am hopeful about this as a Plan. Which Plans are a good thing, so I don't totally go off the rails this summer.

Contemplating a nap before my meeting this afternoon, but a little worried I'll be crazy groggy if I do sleep... On the other hand, it is ridiculously hot for May, and a nap sounds reeeeeally good...

Decisions, decisions.

Final number one survived. Gods only know how I actually did, but it's over, time to move on. Two more finals to go, plus the last draft of my seminar paper, and then I'm two thirds done with law school!

In other news, potentially promising developments for this summer, but still just enough up in the air that it's not quite ready for prime time...

(Also, subject line totally makes me wish I had Portal 2. And, you know, free time. And my WoW subscription - stabbing pixels would be so relaxing right about now. Alas, not ready enough for next final to chill quite yet. -sigh- Onwards and upwards!)

If I were to try and do a big catch up post I'd get all caught up in doing that and it wouldn't happen. So instead we hit the ground running.

Finals start next week and I'm not anywhere near as prepared as I ought to be, but I am having trouble really caring. Whatever happens will happen. Took the night off to de-stress; finally got to see Game of Thrones premiere (OMG LOVE) and this week's Glee, as well as catch up on some articles and other things I'd flagged to read for fun when I had time. Had the tasty noms I'd made last night while I was trying to avoid work (cream of asparagus soup from scratch, NOMNOMNOM) and was just generally chillax. Life was good.

Tomorrow I shall return to my regularly scheduled stressball life, but until then, SLEEP!