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I really, really, really, really, really, How many reallys can I use before people find it annoying, hate therapy.

There are reasons I wanted the stuff that's come up to stay back there.

Learned about Quidditch in my dream last night. Draco, you're on Slytherin's house team. Hard to ignore how I felt watching you play--Jesus, Pansy, stop that. He's your brother I'm not all that great at it. I'm much better at spectating. Like flying as much as the next gal, but quidditch is beyond me.

[Private to Draco]
When do we get to move? I've got a Biology tutoring session this evening. Not sure when I'll be home.

I almost became a weeping angel last night. That one was pretty terrifying.

More dreams last night. Filch is a squib, I know how to produce bluebell flames, Harry had his bones regrown overnight, Lockhart is a bit thick, and the plan to use Polyjuice potion... I know how that ends already. I'm glad the dream stopped when it did, I don't much fancy becoming a cat-girl again.

Has anyone dreamed the same dream more than once?

You know the musical Gypsy? I'm sure some of your parents dragged you to it, or made you watch it or listen to the music or something, right? I"m not the only one who had to sit through it? Anyway, there's a song in it, Everything's Coming Up Roses, only they actually mean it's coming up Rose, the crazy stage mother's way?

Well, right now, despite what Ollie has to say about what I did? That song is kinda my life.

So,because the torture of musical theater when you're thirteen HAS to be good for something, right?

I'll be swell! I'll be great!
Gonna have the whole world on the plate!
Starting here, starting now,
honey, everything's coming up Roy!

That is all, Valar.

New Furby terrify the living shit out of anybody else? I swear the thing is gonna leap out of its box before Christmas and eat my soul. I mean they were bad enough the first year, when we were investigating the things, then an irritant at best, and now?

Well, it's sure not staying at MY place until I deliver it to its new human companion Christmas Eve, that's for DAMN sure. ...Should I even let the thing get near an impressionable five year old? Cause I'm thinking it's Stitch while Stitch was evil, and it's sure as Hell not gonna get UN evil when the batteries go in.

It's got a tail now. An honest to God moving tail. The display model at the store was on and running and chattering at me. I am horrified and think my daughter ought to just give in and let her get one of those huge hamster...lab rat... guinea pig things instead. You can trust a living creature.

But you damn well can't trust ANY Furby. When I've got the time, I'm re-opening the files from '98 and launching a new look inside.

I mean somebody's gotta think of the children here.

Guess who DIDN'T fall off the beam last night in class.

And now for this afternoon's daunting task. Arranging catering for the holiday office party.

Which, okay, I'm off the corporate kool aid and caffiene, I'm going to just air the thought that comes up every time I plan for this event.

...is it possible to prove that the crab salad is part of some kind of warped conspiracy, possibly involving disenfranchised fishpeople who have managed to piss off Dagon badly enough they are given to us to be eaten? There's something sinister about the fact it appears every year, nobody orders it, and nobody eats it.

I mean, it never smells recycled like the fruit cake slices obviously are.

You think it's possible to trap samples and analyze this? Suddenly, I really want to.

I'm now understanding why some people say this time of the year has the potential to... suck.

Hey Valarnet, while I'm at it, with all the engagements and stuff people mentioned having happened the last weekend or so, and the holidays coming up, well... I've got a request regarding those.

Please, PLEASE do not buy Queen/Deleon diamonds. I'd prefer if you went with other stones entirely, but I know most of you aren't going to, and there ARE diamonds out there that are safe, that no one died for, that no kids were crippled for, and that aren't funding one of the biggest crimes in the world today.

You Guys remember the caring but misguided group that produced that documentary on Kony earlier this year? Imagine the scenes from that documentary. Imagine them spread across all kinds of nations. That's what buying Deleon, and buying a LOT of diamonds on the market out there today is buying into.

You've seen me talk about this before if you've been here a while, and if you haven't, I'm saying it again. Do your research before you pick out that diamond and the setting. There ARE ethical companies out there. I have a listing, and I can direct you.

I can't make anybody do a thing that they don't want to. I'm not saying I'm gonna try, much as *I* want to. It isn't time for that kind of a statement, and, as much as I hate going within the lines, sometimes that's the best thing to do.

What I can do is get the word out, and let people know, so that's what I'm doing here. Be careful, be safe, and as a favor to me, don't buy anything from my former company. The legacy I worked to overturn is back in play there, and it isn't great for anybody.

Thanks for readiing. I'll get off the soapbox now.

I take a sabbatical for eight months and I miss out on a lot of fun.

( OOC: A Foreword )
Paul's Blog
Tuesday
7:40pm

( Which part was Me, and which was You? )

Ladies & Gentlemen, boys and girls and whatever you identify with, I have an announcement. Big, life changing announcement actually.

Well, not for you. I mean, your lives will basically be the same.

I, Tony Stark, will be marrying the hell out of Pepper Potts because I asked her and she said yes. And if any of you talk her out of it, I'll find where you live and blast metal outside your house while you try to bring home your date for the first time. You know the one, the hot architect or whatever.

But seriously. We're engaged.

So ever since I had this dream (which was so real I can't seem to shake it from my mind) I've been feeling a little...ill at ease. Could anyone recommend a good class for some self-defence training?
Thanks!
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