pophet's the thing, and avoidance

So according to the highly canonical evidence of the official Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban playing cards, the Queens of Hogwarts are McGonagall, Hermione, Lupin and, uh, Seamus Finnegan. I'm just saying. In other news, I'm rather dying to play James Bond with these cards - you know, the game where two players each take a card (without looking at it) and chase the other player's card with it, while singing "dun-dudu-dun-dun-dundun-dun", and then reveal their cards at the "ta-da"? And the player with the higher card wins the round? Except when the cards are equal, in which case you engage in hand-to-hand combat? That game, though I suppose you'd have to sing "something wicked this way comes" instead, probably. Will you come out and play with me, please? It's really challenging if you're drunk enough.

I need a vacation. I want to go to Budapest. I want to move out of town, but, for the information of anyone who's heard that sentence enough times to be asking "why the hell don't you, then?" now, this is it. There's nowhere left to go in this country. Dammit.

The night I went to see the Potter movie, btw, I saw Jesus' tour bus out in the city. The writing on the bus read (surprisingly) "Jesus On Tour". He Himself was nowhere to be seen, but I think the roadies were, um, rounding up the groupies? Something like that.

There is nothing wrong or naughty about gratuitous pseudo-intellectualism and terminology wanking, when all the participants are consenting adults - and sometimes, children, when academics are in a loving intellectual relationship, it's all right for them to even enjoy tasteful renditions of other people doing it - I just read a life manual that informed me that if I'm running out of plastic bags due to not shopping for groceries often enough, a functional relationship can be a perfectly healthy option. Some of these things are lies, and if anyone goes "I'm using this fancy word because I know you don't understand it and it makes me feel superior" or "I'm not using this fancy word because I know you wouldn't understand it because I'm the only person in the world who's ever read a book", you have my permission to punch them in the face, even if this ship sailed a few years ago, already.

But violence? is not a solution, children. Don't listen to me, and for the sake of your own sweet innocence, don't think that it's your duty to check out Nifty just once just so you know what people are talking about: it'll be a half an hour of your life you'll never ever get back again.

Not watching the Olympics, because, well, you know why. If I win the lottery, I promise I'll buy a tv just so I can stop talking about it.