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[zana16]

I wonder what would happen if I actually took those penis enlargement pills that I keep getting spam for? I mean, really. They just keep sending them and I always want to send an email back saying I don't have a penis to enlarge. You'd think they'd send me breast enlargement ads, but maybe they know I'm saving up for a reduction instead. Yes, they know this yet still send me penis enlargement ads. Hmm. I have decided to fear the advertising industry.

I've been sick. I took a day off work that turned into two days off work when I gave up waiting for Harry Potter to come and went across town and bought it from The Horribly Expensive English Language Bookstoer Across From Tuileries Gardens. Then I stayed up all night reading it. I didn't check my email or lj for an entire 36 hours and wow just now I had to do skip=200 on my friends page!!!!. Jesus Christ. I just got back from the bookstore where I returned HP so that I won't have two hardback copies to lug home in a few weeks. I felt guilty but I also kinda need the money for food and stuff.

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w00t! Such a surreal experience. I had to keep reminding myself that this wasn't another fanfic, that this time it was cannon so it counted.

OMG, I LOVE the new Ginny. Ginny was never a favorite character, she was kinda wimpy and one-dimensional and childish. I'm SO glad she got over Harry. And when I read "Dean Thomas" at the end, my very first thought was "Oh my God the look on pottersginny's face when she realizes that her precious Ginny is not only NOT dating Harry but is dating a black character!" I'm so glad we managed to get her journal suspended, even if it would be HILARIOUS to bombard her with comments about the new canon pairing and say "serves you right, you racist bitch".

Was disappointed that the Ron/Hermione pairing seems to have fizzled out, because I want Ron to have some happiness and Hermione to actually have a balancer. But whatever.

I have to admit, I spent the first third of the book being disappointed. Then things started happening and I didn't really have time to think about it. I'm impressed, though. JKR managed to surprise me even though I'd thought I'd encountered every possible twist the plot could take already in fandom. And really, only she could get away with writing Harry as a bit of a jerk at times. I liked that. It felt real.

I am, however, disappointed with the female DADA prof. Why is it that women can only be powerful if they are evil? The female DADA teacher was supposed to be a lot more like Tonks. Who I loved. Also very much appreciated Loony Lovegood. And the real characters with real faults thing.

I will not talk about the death. Or Percy. Or the fact that Gred n' Forge won't be at Hogwarts next book. Am in denial.


In other news.... am sick. It sucks. The Camry died. That majorly sucks. Already I don't have a room at my parents' place, now I'm going to be stranded there as well cause we'll have no car. *sighs* I miss peanut butter so much. And Mexican food. And Cheetos. And my parents and friends and speaking English. And driving. Not that I'll be able to do that when I go home since the car's dead, but whatever.

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[strchsr.livejournal.com]

i'm terribly sorry that you are sick. i got salmonella poisoning when i will lived in PAris for a semester. it was horrible. i couldn't explain to the doctor what was wrong, because my french has always sucked & all of my school (including teachers) had gone to strausberg for the weekend. i hope that you are better soon. do you attend a quaker meeting in PAris? that would be really cool. i wasn't an attender when i was there.

[zana16.livejournal.com]

There is a Quaker Meeting in Paris, I know, but here I am at the end of the year and I've managed not to make it there even once! I am bad. But least I got Harry Potter read while I was sick.

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[strchsr.livejournal.com]

HP is always a good thing.

you are not bad. i never made it to the louvre.

[zana16.livejournal.com]

I only made it 'cause I'm taking an art history class. But there are plenty of places that, even after a year, I haven't yet seen.

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[strchsr.livejournal.com]

have you been to skakespeare & co? i used to spend so much time there. i even ran the monday night poetry readings for a while. george whitman (the owner) is nuts, but what would one expect. my dad was in paris last month & he described george exactly as i remember him.

[zana16.livejournal.com]

I discovered it one morning and I loved the place so much! It is one of my "happy places". I don't know George well but he does seem rather off (in a good way). He's really old, though, and seems to be tired. He's really a Paris institution, and that has to be exhausting.

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[strchsr.livejournal.com]

it is a wonderful place. i miss it, & paris overall very much. i miss coofeebar in the marais. and the place down the block were my friend & i got tatoos. i miss walking from the 16th (school) to the 7th (home) & my chambre de bonne. i miss it all. enjoy every minute of it.