1) Meet Gus the Mini Dachshund
(What? Surely I don't need a reason to post links to puppy pictures?)

2) I got carded today. Just to remind you, I turned thirty not even two weeks ago, but they still think I shouldn't be allowed to play the lottery. They may be right, but it still totally made my day.

3) I bought the apple component av cable for my beloved MetalliPod. Now I'm thinking that I may have been better of with the analog cable, because it will be comptaible with more tvs. Anyone got any experience with this?

4) I've been mainlining HP slash these last days, so much so that I've even forgot to watch House until 3 in the morning every night. (do you know how long it takes to watch three entire seasons of a show when you never come home before 9.30 p.m.? and while we are at it, do you think I could successfully sue amazon for offering three-season-dvd packs, since they are clearly meant to steal my life, and how many DVDs could I buy with the compensation I got if I won the claim?) Anyway, Harry Potter. I have learned that I cannot stay in front of the computer forever, since I sometimes have to get up and eat, or go to the bathroom, and other stupid things. I'm trying my best though.

My current dealer in all things HP/SS is regan_v, but if any of you got Harry/Snape recs for me, I'd be grateful. I already fear the day when I have read through all of Regan_v's recs.
At least I have House to fall back to, if my HP sources dry out.

5) Off to see the wizard now, in other words, I'm trying out a new horseriding place. Wish me luck!

Link: The Sorting Hat Test written by leeannslytherin on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

Apparently, I'm not meant to be in Hogwarts at all. On the other hand, this is the result I got when I skippedthe question of which House I want to be in. If I choose that I want to get into Slytherin, I score significantly higher (56%) on Slytherin. If I choose Gryffindor, still a squib.
Yep, I can just see myself sitting there with that stupid hat on my first day.

Hat: "Either you choose Slytherin or you'll go home."
Me: "But I don't want to live in the dungeons!"

Three years ago, when I was really into Harry Potter, I was still reading WIPs. Nowadays I get a desire for HP about once a year, frantically devouring everything that has been recced in the meantime. But back then, I was a good little fan, read everything ever published (well, almost), and what I couldn't read I'd save to my HD to read later. I also marked WIPs as WIPs and made notes about them, so I'D know what was going on, later, when the next part was released.

Later is now.

For the past few days I've been going through old HP fic that has been collected on my HD, unread or marked WIP. I read some, I deleted a lot (it's so easy: rape? -delete, Remus/Sirius? - Delete, "Harry looked at the long, greasy hair of his lover."? - Delete, Twinkly Dumbledore eyes? -DELETE DELETE DELETE.) And noe I've reaced the WIPs.

There is one (and I won't say whose it is, cause I'm reading this authors journal, and while I doubt she's reading mine, I've long since learned that the fandom world is small): I've read the first part in July 2003. The second part has not been written yet, but on her website it says "TBA". Well, I'm not holding my breath.

Other authors WIPs have at least disappeared from their websites, so readers know they will never be finished again, something I suspect about most WIPs in the first place.

Then there is the most famous WIP of the time, with it's own update list (I think I remember it had well over a 1000 members back then), "The Mirror of Maybe" by Midnight Blue. My WIP folder holds 18 chapters, but what do my sore eyes find when I look for her website? Three years later, just this January, a nineteenth chapters has been added! What an earth-shattering event!
I, for one, am not going to wait another three years for the next chapter. Mrs. Rowlings writes whole books in the same time.

The moral of the story is: I have never read another WIP after I "left" Harry Potter fandom and I never will.
Unless it is written by Martha.

Did you miss me?

I'm on a break. A study break. See me study.

*studies*

In between studying and almost not reading my flist, I read a wonderful Sports Night fic which left me with a big smile on my face and in my heart, so I just had to share it with you. Cause it's Wednesday (I think), and everyone needs some happiness on a Wednesday. Read

Gynecology by Charlemagne

and feel the SN love. Yes yes, SN, it's Sports Night, not Supernatural. Just so you know. It's driving my crazy, all that SN on my flist that turns out to be fic about yet another show that will give me issues about brother slash. I'm still in denial about Numb3rs.

Speaking of Numb3rs: Larry is the cutest thing ever. EVER. I LOVE Larry. He and Charlie should marry.


In other news, I watched Harry Potter IV: It was excellent and I'll watch it again tomorrow. But I have a confession to make, more of an unpopular fannish opinion:

Daniel Radcliffe = worst actor ever. If he wasn't in so many scenes, I'd close my eyes whenever his face is shown.

Also: Kevin Costner = still sexy.


*exits stage left to study some more*

I have reached page 421. And - though what I'm going to say isn't a spoiler per se (but be warned and read at your own risk, that's what the cut is for) , I will from now on place everything that has even remotely to do with the book, under a cut marked ( Harry Potter )

Yes, I know that everyone is doing it. But I know you all love polls, so if you'd be so kind... :-)

[Poll #523109]

When did you first discover Harry Potter?:
Shortly before book four came out. I heard about it before, but I didn't think to read it. But that summer I was working on the farm (don't ask) and I was bored one evening. A friend had book two, and that was it. I did not talk again with people until I finished it.

( clickyclick, if you want to know more about my obsession with Harry Potter )

They are showing a Harry Potter Triple the night before the official start, and then again on Sunday.
And. I. don't. have. time.
*hates her life*

Hmm. But the first movie sucked anyway. And it is in German. So I guess I'll survive missing it. I am going to call my HP RL friend (yes? I have real life friends who are crazy about Harry Potter!), and ask her she wants to rent the CoS DVD and watch it before the movie, then we will at least have a HP double.

I am also afraid that I will get drawn into HP slash again. I had a serious HP phase last year, when the fifth book was released. And I have more than 600 fic ssaved on my HD that I want to read one day. Well, I hope most of them aren't good, so I can throw them out after a few sentences, because otherwise I'll spend the rest of my life trying to cath up on HP slash fiction. But I am feeling the excitement already. Maybe I should read the first three books again, so that I can complain about the movies and about how much they left out?
Though I am actually optimistic about that movie, the trailers were very nice. And Hermione is so pretty! I think I have a crush on Hermione. Bad me. But she is so pretty.
And there'll be Lucius-y goodness. Mmm, Lucius.
Need to get more HP icons.

Can it be June already? How long is it till June? Now? How long do I have to wait? When...
(My parents loved having me in the car during long trips...)

I know that many of you aren't Harry Potter fans, but somniesperus asks for hot fics here, and you can all go there and anonymously throw in some random Stargate fics. Spread the love.
And you might want to check out other people's favourites, even if they are Harry Potter. People rec some damn hot stories over there.
Of course, anybody who knows me and my fandoms just a bit will immediately know what I wrote, so I guess I am outing myself by sending you over there.
*blushes a little*
Have fun!

It is too fucking hot. Hot. HOT. AAAAHHHHH!
It doesn't even cool off in the night anymore!

Meanwhile, I keep having these visions of Daniel and Snape. And then Jack. Jack and Snape fighting over Daniel. Anything that involves two of them and hot sweaty sex. Or maybe the three of them.
See, I have this idea for a crossover. What if Voldemort is a Goa'uld? Because he does try to become a god-like person in the wizard world. It makes sense. To me.
I blame the heat.