Bit of Ivory

Reset the timer to show how long until I see it again. Will be
reseting again tomorrow to show how long until I see it again again.
Don’t have time for an extended review at the moment, since I will
shortly be leaving for my next showing, but let me just say a couple of
things.
I. Loved. It.
LOVED [...]

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Wolf created this lovely timer for me. But for some reason the timer
works just fine in my posts (in the preview you get on the Blogger
page), but once it gets to the actual page, something weird happens.
Ideas, Wolf?
Hours until Emily sees Chamber of Secrets:
(This was a cool javascript timer that no longer has any meaning. [...]

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Validated!
VAL. I. DATED!!!
How little I knew when I made this
post, that I would be proven right so soon!
Thank you, J.K. Rowling! Take a look (and a listen) to this
link. The relevant quote? (My own transcription):
“And I’m also aware, as no one else can be, how important it is in the
overall plot of all seven books; [...]

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Alright, I’m utterly confuzled. Can anyone tell me why this page
could possibly have been a referral to my blog? Not only do I not see a
link or anyone I know on there, it seems to be mostly a place of Lori
and Cassie fans to hang out, which is definitely an area of fandom I
don’t ususally [...]

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47 hours 55 minutes until I’m sitting in the theatre watching CoS. By
this time Friday, I will already be sitting in the theatre, watching
the previews. *Note: I did not come up with the hourly countdown. That
would be my roommate, the math major. I can’t subtract. :)*
I just realized I never told you my plans for [...]

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Arabella
is EVIL. And completely awesome, of course. The Very
Secret Diary is definitely one of the best fics I’ve read in A LONG
time. It’s been interesting to read some of the reviews– people saying
that now they understand CoS, and that TVSD has added all new
meaning to it. . .sheesh, people, were you even reading the book? [...]

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I’m. Going. Crazy.
I’m getting so excited. You have no idea. Friday! I get to see the
movie FRIDAY!!!
It’s getting so that I don’t even want to read anything that doesn’t
have to do with Harry.
I’m completely hopeless, aren’t I?

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You thought the last one was bitter? Try this one. . .
(The final Latin line means, roughly, “It is sweet and meet to die for
one’s country.”)
Dulce et Decorum Est
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant [...]

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Here’s another war poem– a bit more satirical, this time:
All the Hills and Vales Along
by Charles Sorley (1895-1915)
ALL the hills and vales along Earth is bursting into song, And the
singers are the chaps Who are going to die perhaps.   O sing,
marching men,   Till the valleys ring again.   Give
your gladness to earth’s keeping,   So be glad, [...]

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Armistice Day
At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918,
an Armistice was signed, ending what had been the bloodiest war ever
fought. I’ve never paid much attention to World War I (or the Great
War, as it was then called– the people having no knowledge that
another such war was possible) before. The [...]

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