overheard on 103rd

Mom to 5-year-old:

"Xavier don't be a fucking bully! Bullies get hurt and bullies die and bullies go to jail. You aren't going to be no fucking bully. You're going to get good grades and a job!"

It's only funny if you've never visited my neighborhood.

gluten-free waaaaaaaaah

The GF Chinese place here closed. I am once again without egg rolls, etc.

good Snape essay

http://community.livejournal.com/hp_essays/239266.html

maryh10000 does a good job at trying to make sense of why fans like Snape and why JKR can't figure out what's wrong with us.

The question it raises, for me, and that I've always wondered about, is where JKR herself was in the school pecking order as a girl. She's talked about being like Hermione, but what were her friendships like and what status/immunity in playground politics to they afford her?

proof that I need sleep

When Tim Gunn starts ranting about the slobification of America, I think to myself, "wow, why hasn't anyone written some awful fic about him being Snape's second cousin?"

I had two and a half hours of sleep last night. Ugh.