I fucking love Neighbours. I can't stand Eastenders at all, but I love Hollyoaks and Neighbours. I like my soaps trashy, unrealistic and chock full of melodrama. I like plane crash tragedies, people faking their own deaths, serial womanisers with one leg, and people missing presumed dead who turn up with memory loss working for the Salvation Army. I like ridiculous teenage drug addicts, late night specials where date rapists get impaled in abandoned fair grounds, schemeing evil wives, and closet gay priests. Who doesn't?

I also have a massive girl crush on Libby Kennedy. I grew up watching the Kennedy family, and my first boy crush was on young Billy. Remember when he asked everyone to call him Bill because it sounded more grown up? Heh, yeah. And my first girl crush? Libby. She's like the amazing older cousin you looked up to as a kid, who always seemed so clever and strong and beautiful and you could never be convinced otherwise, even when she was babysitting in her jogging bottoms and burning your dinner. Even now, I adore her. She can do no wrong.

JKRs prequel-type thing was cool. ( Cut for spoilers )

I also devoured Supernatural: Origins, the graphic novel prequel that follows John Winchester's hunt for the thing that killed his wife. ( Cut for more spoilers! )

ETA: And now I am going to do my ironing and watch the tennis and this makes me very happy indeed. Yay tennis!

Bethnal Green
London - England - United Kingdom

A neighborhood on London's East End, historically known as a poor area. Bethnal Green was also where Willy Widdershins pranked Muggles with exploding toilets, which Mr. Weasley had to investigate in OP9.

(From the Harry Potter Lexicon)

Yay! So THAT's why my toilet exploded! Our new one is lovely though. It doesn't spray sewage out the back or anything. A "plumber" came and fixed it. I like to think it was one of Mr Weasley's colleagues from the Ministry.

I had this whole entry planned about self-respect, and dignity, and retaining both inspired by seeing way too many people way too drunk at the weekend, but it came out sounding fairly obnoxious. Which is a shame, because I feel it was something worth saying.

So instead I made Harry Potter icons.

Do you get the feeling my brain is being eaten by pretty pictures? Being unemployed is bad for my brain.

Oh, and Serenity is working once more, on XP! Huzzah! And many thanks to the wonderful individual who made it possible. I love you!

And a belated Happy Birthday to casparian!

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( Many, many icons, all free to good homes. Mostly Remus. A few spoilers for HBP. )

So now I'm going to go read Crime and Punishment. A real update to follow.

I finished the book last night and then Jimmy came over and we sat and disected, which was fun :) I typed this little lot up earlier, but haven't been on Winston until now.

I liked Harry in this book a lot more than the last. In fact, I loved this book! I think this is definitely up there with PoA as my favourites in the series.

The following is a chapter by chapter commentary, based on notes I made whilst reading of my initial thoughts and reactions. It's a little long, and full of spoilers. You were warned!

( I'm not afraid... )