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Jury Duty is over.

I just turned down 3 days of non-union background work with no chance of an upgrade because I just wasn't in the mood. I feel guilty, but I know this is part of the new strategy.

Dear Pax Foods,
I am wearing a cute sexy blouse and pig tails. Do not call me sir. it makes you look stupid.

Dear 7-11,
Thank you for being in NYC and giving me a weird opportunity to be nostalgic about Australia of all things. But all your crappy American candy made me sad.



Why was Snape's old potions book floating around that classroom for Harry to wind up with? I certainly kept all my textbooks throughout my education (in fact, I hated my two years at public school because books had to be returned at the end of the course), only weeding them out recently, and I'm less of an intellectual freak than the dude -- and I didn't write copious notes on original work in my books either -- so what gives? Why just abandon it? Was it all in his head and he just wrote the shit down for Lily? We know the book was published 50 years before Harry gets his hands on it... was it an old onelying around the classroom when Snape was a student -- that is, was it a loaner given to him because of his meagre means?

I don't know why I care, but, help?

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Up until recently in the UK (recenlty as in the past 15 years or so! :) ), textbooks were provided by the schools and given back at the end of term.. when I was in high school we got handed out really old German text books in first year, some with pencil scribbles on, which we were to use all year and then return. They were well worn and years out of date, some held together with sticky tape.. I think JK is thinking back to that and assuming Hogwarts stuff would be hanging around for even longer. I like orien's theory too, but JK has used the "handy book with the vital information happening along" too often for it to have even given me much pause for thought!