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I have arranged to see Harry Potter on Friday afternoon. Am taking Bernard The Petulant and Emmy The Squealing. I think Bernard's only coming for the previews and the movie-theatre-nachos I've promised to provide. Alas, we are not going to the Draft House to see it, but I can forego paying $8 for a burger while I watch, in order to see it only two days later than apparently everyone I know...:D

Plus, the local library (eight books, no waiting!) is showing old sci-fi movies tonight, so I'm'a walk down there and see what is to be seen.

Comment conservation:

gwendolyngrace
Dude, you have a place where you can buy a burger to take into the theatre? Cool. Now all you need is a driver's license. And a car. And believe me, I sympathize, because I didn't have a driver's license until I was 24 - and divorced!

juniper200
He can drive; he's just trying to win some kind of prize for sheer bloody-mindedness.

gwendolyngrace
Drive, Sam! Drive! DRIVE! You know you want it. That little taste of personal freedom that comes with operating heavy machinery! Come on! You CAN And if you start now, you could get to New York by Friday....

juniper200
Yes! Yes! In a car, the road belongs to you and you alone! Fuck the rest of the world and its environment and all the other people! Join the dark side! Bikes and walking are for pussies! Drive!

copperbadge
Get out of my LJ, both of you! *waves bicycle hex key set menacingly* I can indeed drive. Let me just hop into the invisible car parked in the driveway, get out my nonexistent car key, and put the fantasy stick shift in gear...

juniper200
You could steal a car. That would be fun.

copperbadge
I do know how to hotwire. And a lot of people leave their cars unlocked in this neighbourhood. Sam Starbuck: One Man Crime Wave.

juniper200
It can't be that hard. The people on TV do it all the time. Find an older car with an open lower dash and start poking wires around. It's educational!

vimeslady
Luscious, er, Lucius, I mean, Jason Isaacs, is on West Wing??! Why didn't someone tell me this? I've never seen West Wing.

juniper200
National security. Need-to-know basis only.

vimeslady
But... but... but it's Lucius! Of course I need to know!

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I'm not sure how often I've mentioned this on the LJ, but some of you know that I come from a very small, annoyingly close-knit family; for years it's been Mum, myself, Bernard, and Emmy -- and that's all. I've heard mention a few times of some distant cousins in New York, somewhere, but I've never met them.

Recently one of them died, and we did the usual -- sent cards and flowers and our regrets that we couldn't make it to New York for the funeral. (By the way, sympathy cards are the most disgustingly insincere objects I've ever come across; blank cards are much more useful in times of bereavement.)

Apparently they've been going through Distant Cousin Robert's things, and found an old metal index-card tin full of recipes belonging to either my gran or possibly her mother; at any rate, they decided Mum, being the only related female, might like to have them, and so they were shipped to us.

They are, to put it mildly, amusing. I thought, over the course of the next few weeks as I input them into Microsoft Word as per Mum's request, I would share a few.

There are no less than eight recipes for jello salad.

BLUEBERRY JELLO SALAD
Serves 16

2 c. boiling water + 1 pkg. orange jello
1 1/2 c. juice from drained canned fruit
Medium size can of blueberries
1 can crushed pineapple which has been drained.

Make jell-o and add fruit juice; allow to cool. Add blueberries and pineapple to mixture and mold.

Sour Cream Dressing:
1 c. sour cream, 2 tbsp. lemon juice, 1 tbsp sugar, 1 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp grated onion, 1 dash cayenne pepper; beat till it holds its shape.

Comment conservation:

r_becca
did I read that wrong? blueberries, pineapple, onion and cayenne pepper all in the same dish?

copperbadge
Well, technically. I mean you put the onions and cayenne on TOP of the blueberries and pineapple...

That didn't help, huh.

evil_whimsey
That really pushes the envelope of my olfactory comprehension. In fact, I'd have to say it goes well past the envelope, and somewhere out in the post office parking lot.

silverag
I think they served this at my high school once.

cabari
Sort of makes you wonder if people actually ate this stuff, or just left it around as a joke for future generations.

bookwench31
Several years ago someone donated a book to the library entitled The Joy of Jello. It was published by the Jello company and included just about everything you could ever hope to make with jello. My favorite:
The Jello Sandwich-make an open faced sandwich. Make a bowl of orange flavored jello, let the jello set until it is still sort of runny, then pour the jello "sludge" over the sandwich and let it set until solid.

hija_paloma
I am immediately reminded of these culinary horrors I came across several years ago.

http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards.html

Still one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

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NYC called and said they wanted me to come for the job, but weren't sure I was entirely behind the idea. I told them it wasn't financially possible. Which is mostly true. *grin*

They said I should consider them for the future, though, and my resume is on file.

Which means now I get to buckle down and start doing thesis research and looking at plane fares to Philly for July to see if THAT is financially possible (Clairelet, let's talk -- I owe you an email, poke me if I don't write you by tomorrow).

I think it's all for the best. Though how continued unemployment is ever for the best is a bit...questionable. Still, onwards we press.

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It is well-nigh impossible to write a scene about broomsticks without making it sound naughty. Deuced phallic symbols.

Sirius steadying him, one hand on his back and one covering his own hands on the smooth wood

The broom, vibrating impatiently beneath him

"Adjust your grip please, Mr. Malfoy..."

Argh.