I’ve been away for a little while because:
A) I moved. Packing and moving and unpacking take a very long time. And then, when you have a house, you have to do stuff to make it better. This leaves little free time. Maybe that’s why old people rarely do anything fun; they’re stuck at home on evenings and weekends redoing the kitchen and hammering stuff into fences.
B) Harry Potter. I’m avoiding the internet because it’s likely that some asshole will post a major spoiler for the last book, in some place that I’ll see it even if I avoid everything to do with Harry Potter. I’m hoping that Rowling learned her lesson from the 6th book and made each plot twist hard to summarize in one line, e.g. “X kills Y on pg. Z”. It should be more like “X is actually Y’s great grandfather because Y used time travel magic to have a one night stand with X’s ancestor, but that made X uncomfortable given he was boinking Y’s sister, so he magically goes back in time to magically sterilize Y, which creates a paradox that leaves X neither alive nor dead but sorta squishy and pale, and very uncomfortable.” This would be very hard to communicate in any form that could be read inadvertently.
Anyway, I’ll be back when the house is done and the book is read.
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18 responses to “Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder”
Apparently this one was printed on 100% post-consumer recycled fibre… one of the biggest such publishing runs in history.
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Apparently this one was printed on 100% post-consumer recycled fibre… one of the biggest such publishing runs in history.
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<>“they’re stuck at home on evenings and weekends redoing the kitchen and hammering stuff into fences”<>Sorry, but, it’s true.
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“they’re stuck at home on evenings and weekends redoing the kitchen and hammering stuff into fences”Sorry, but, it’s true.
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Madame: Yeah I noticed that on the cover! Pretty awesome. I’ve heard it was only in Canada last time…hopefully now it’s all copies worldwide. Otherwise that’s a shitload of trees that are no longer with us.Salem: FUCK!
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Madame: Yeah I noticed that on the cover! Pretty awesome. I’ve heard it was only in Canada last time…hopefully now it’s all copies worldwide. Otherwise that’s a shitload of trees that are no longer with us.Salem: FUCK!
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I started the book Saturday, couldn’t put it down til I finished it late Sunday night, so thankfully nobody ruined it for me like they did with book 6. Awesome book. (Does hammering stuff into fences preclude writing in depth Dani post?)
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I started the book Saturday, couldn’t put it down til I finished it late Sunday night, so thankfully nobody ruined it for me like they did with book 6. Awesome book. (Does hammering stuff into fences preclude writing in depth Dani post?)
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Welcome to being an old person.
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Welcome to being an old person.
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Wow Shora, you read that whole thick book in one day? I don’t think I could do that even if I read 24 hours straight. Congrats. 🙂(And yes, hammering does preclude the Dani post, which I’ve built up way too much and I don’t even want to write any more 🙂Jen: Nooo! I won’t do it. I’ll hire people to hammer fences for me. And have kids for me. And do all that other old-person stuff.
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Wow Shora, you read that whole thick book in one day? I don’t think I could do that even if I read 24 hours straight. Congrats. :)(And yes, hammering does preclude the Dani post, which I’ve built up way too much and I don’t even want to write any more :)Jen: Nooo! I won’t do it. I’ll hire people to hammer fences for me. And have kids for me. And do all that other old-person stuff.
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Hahaha. Based on that plot, YOU should have written the final Harry Potter. You should know you can’t ‘avoid’ the internet… it follows you EVERYWHERE.
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Hahaha. Based on that plot, YOU should have written the final Harry Potter. You should know you can’t ‘avoid’ the internet… it follows you EVERYWHERE.
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I hope being a perpetual student pays well if you want to hire people for your dirty work. 😛
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I hope being a perpetual student pays well if you want to hire people for your dirty work. 😛
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I love the SNL title for the book: Harry Potter and the End of Trees.I was looking forward to the Dani post!
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I love the SNL title for the book: Harry Potter and the End of Trees.I was looking forward to the Dani post!
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