Bit of Ivory

Thank you to all who offered your congratulations! I’m still in a state of shock over the whole thing. I think the best thing about the contest is a few residual reviews on my other fics, and a renewed sense of urgency in writing my other fics I have stewing.

Have spent the afternoon cleaning, more or less. Cleaning my room and cleaning off my computer. Poor Harry is groaning under the weight of too many e-mails, among other things. I need to do a full backup and then reload his hard drive from scratch.

On that note, my laptop is still out of commission, which means that I won’t be online as much as I have lately. Especially on AIM and Y!M, etc. I have no idea how long this will last, but I hope not long. It also means that I can’t access much of what I had on Ginny’s hard drive, at least until my dad recovers from his surgery sufficiently to copy stuff from the hard drive. So Lou, that means that I can’t upload the two other icons I made for you. Shame, that. They’re really cool, too.

Have been listening to Frederica while I’ve been cleaning. It’s very good, so far. After I’m done I’ll need to find more Heyers, as I’ll be fresh out. Pity, that.

The mountain of stuff in my room has been reduced to a foothill. Pretty good progress, actually.

My best friend, Jen, has chopped her hair rather dramatically. It used to be past her waist, it’s now just above her shoulders. It looks really cute, though. I haven’t seen her in short hair for a very long time. She looks rather like an older Bonnie Wright, making her resemblance to Ginny even more dramatic. My own hair has spent a great deal of time at that length, and while I’m still rather enjoying the novelty of having long hair, I’ll probably end up cutting it back eventually.

Jen, I, and my sisters went to see Pirates again this weekend. Definitely as good the 7th time as the 1st. I still need to see it with Lilac
sometime. Can’t do it next Saturday, as it’s Baptism Saturday, unless we go in the morning or the evening. But soon, right Lilac? Got a different set of previews this time, including one for Peter Pan, which was an unexpected bonus. Jason Isaacs looks wonderfully menacing as Captain Hook. I’m very much looking forward to it.

I uncovered a $10 certificate for Barnes and Noble, and am making all sorts of plans on how to spend it. Hmmm.

Speaking of spending money, I ordered the Pirates soundtrack from Amazon the other day, as it’s practically impossible to find locally. Also ordered a GRE study book that I had planned on buying anyway, and therefore qualified for free Super Saver shipping, which means that it will take longer for me to get them, but I’m not in any real hurry.

I’ve been resolutely avoiding the DT, and am much better for it, I believe. Funny for me to be abandoning it after coming out so dramatically at Nimbus.

I’ve been trying to brush up on my French for graduate school. I might even attempt to read my French HP translations. It would certainly help with my vocabulary, which is where I’m weakest. I also need to dig out my Nouvelle Grammaire Français and re-learn the tenses. *sigh* Learning a foreign language is so hard.

I have too much stuff. I’ve already gone through all of it twice, throwing all sorts of things out, but still I’m having a hard time finding somewhere to put everything. So much of what I have is only used once a year or so, but when the ocassion *does* come up, I need it, so I can’t think of throwing it out.

I’m only half-reluctant to go to work tomorrow. I don’t want to get up at 6, to be sure, but I’m liking working. I’ll like it even more when I get my first paycheck, which won’t be for another 2 weeks. There’s a full two-week delay at the State. Luckily I still have one Deseret Book paycheck to tide me over.

One of my coworkers has never read Pride and Prejudice. I told her that I’d be more than happy to lend her one of my 6 copies.

Okay, enough delaying. Back to work.