You're gonna be bothered by how cool I am.

Well, thanks to the great people at whose house I am a guest this weekend, I have access to a computer for a bit.

I had a pretty good Thanksgiving and stuffed myself silly, which wasn't a first for me. The conversation, while I listened, wasn't so much race-oriented as the even more dreaded topic (by me) - marriage and family. We seemed to be back to the cycle of convo where I feel like an old maid because I'm the only person in the room who wasn't married before they were twenty. Oh, well. It's only once a year.

In other news, I managed to tear myself away from the football game and visiting long enough to finally finish Lord of the Rings for what was my first reading of it ever. It is positively wonderful (as many of you are more than well aware). I was more emotional at the end, during all the happy parts than I was at any other part of the books. When Gandalf says to Sam, Merry and Pippin that he won't tell them not to weep "because not all tears are evil" I shed quite a few tears of my own. I find it even more difficult to understand how some fans of Rowling (speaking of Rowling, the CoS movie promo just started this very moment on HBO - spooky) can want a painful ending. LOTR has an extremely happy ending that lasts well nigh 80 pages. 80 pages of ceremony, an engagement, a wedding, homecomings, and victory over oppressors. One negative thing about the book's ending (if it can be considered such) is that now I can't possibly imagine how they're going to pull it off in the film. I guess we'll all see in a few weeks (squee!).

Well, thanks to the great people at whose house I am a guest this weekend, I have access to a computer for a bit.

I had a pretty good Thanksgiving and stuffed myself silly, which wasn't a first for me. The conversation, while I listened, wasn't so much race-oriented as the even more dreaded topic (by me) - marriage and family. We seemed to be back to the cycle of convo where I feel like an old maid because I'm the only person in the room who wasn't married before they were twenty. Oh, well. It's only once a year.

In other news, I managed to tear myself away from the football game and visiting long enough to finally finish Lord of the Rings for what was my first reading of it ever. It is positively wonderful (as many of you are more than well aware). I was more emotional at the end, during all the happy parts than I was at any other part of the books. When Gandalf says to Sam, Merry and Pippin that he won't tell them not to weep "because not all tears are evil" I shed quite a few tears of my own. I find it even more difficult to understand how some fans of Rowling (speaking of Rowling, the CoS movie promo just started this very moment on HBO - spooky) can want a painful ending. LOTR has an extremely happy ending that lasts well nigh 80 pages. 80 pages of ceremony, an engagement, a wedding, homecomings, and victory over oppressors. One negative thing about the book's ending (if it can be considered such) is that now I can't possibly imagine how they're going to pull it off in the film. I guess we'll all see in a few weeks (squee!).

Here is some pretty exciting news on the HP front. Too bad it's like three months away. But it's a nice little halfway mark between now and wahleecon. And it will give us some more to drive ourselves crazy with until book 6 comes out.

Here is some pretty exciting news on the HP front. Too bad it's like three months away. But it's a nice little halfway mark between now and wahleecon. And it will give us some more to drive ourselves crazy with until book 6 comes out.