Today

Today I had lunch with my sister and my brother-in-law, my nephew, and a couple of friends.

Today I missed two buses and was therefore an hour late.

Today I walked around all day with spit up on my shoulder, while wearing my brother-in-law's t-shirt. (His kid's spit up, his shirt, makes sense to me.)

Today I feel like there's an ice pick in my eye.

Today I finally arranged to get paid. Kind of a critical part of that whole working thing.

Today I will mark 1849018321 undergraduate papers. Anyone here not know what a thesis statement should look like? Please. Do your marking assistant a favour and ask someone. Please.

Today I learned that turkey soup, real turkey soup made from boiled up remains of the thanksgiving turkey, looks like turkey jello when put in the fridge. And when you heat it up, it becomes liquid again. luciusmalfoy thinks that's gross, but I think it's kind of cool.

Today I asked said luciusmalfoy to be my wife. She agreed, though with the stipulation that I be rich and famous first. Gifts accepted, from now until eternity.

Deliver us!

I love the Prince of Egypt soundtrack. There's something really cool about hearing the Jews in Egypt sing to G*D about their troubles. So...I dunno. It's GREAT.

"d00d. There's a land you promised us, remember?"

Have I ever posted about my deep love for the Hebrew bible? *hearts the Hebrew bible* I'm a hardcore semophile. I think I'm the only person in the world who liked Prince of Egypt so much that I own a copy of it, as well as the soundtrack. Though I skip over the Whitney Houston/Mariah Carey version of 'When you Believe". But I mean, Ofra Haza, man. Ofra Haza! And little children singing Miriam's song! Come on! I can even deal with Michelle Pfeiffer singing.

Honestly, I think the story of Moses is one of the greatest ever told.

I'm listening to it REALLY LOUD now. And singing along. Now I really want to watch this movie again. *weeps*

A heartfelt question

Dear fan(s) of Origins/Haven/Belong,

So I'm sort of working on this Haven thing, right? The rewrite. The fabled rewrite. Well, here's my question.

I got bit by the biggest plot bug ever for the, er, sequel to Belong. And I think it's mad cool. There are elements of Haven that clearly need work, but I think I want to write this sequel thing. I have parts of the Haven rewrite already...what if I just posted a few, er, short stories that kind of...fit into the Haven thing....kind of rounded it out....and then...er....well, would anyone be really offended if I wrote the sequel to Belong instead?

*cries*

I will post *parts* of Haven. New!Haven. There are a few key scenes I can add and I do want to write them. Perhaps just in short story form instead? A few short stories?

Maybe you'll want to know a little about the sequel before you make a decision on this, O reader who might be interested in answering this question. Well. It's Harry/Draco, obviously. They are a couple of years older and down the line a bit, so it's a more, er, established relationship and so forth. Less angsting on that front. But the story also focuses on, er...Ginny.

And also...a surprise guest. Pansy.

The return of Pansy! I've been planning that part out for months! AHAHAHAA! People thought I was trying to get rid of her, but no...I was setting her up for the next part! Pansy as we've never seen her before!

It will begin roughly two years after the end of Belong, and rather than an entire year, *pants*, the story will take place within a single month, because I just can't write a whole year.

This means I won't hold back any smut, of course. (And, to be honest, most of what I want to put in Haven is smut.) We'll get all that. I'll just slide it alongside Haven instead of...entirely replacing it.

*justifies, justifies*

Help!

Yours in crisis,

Ivy Blossom

New Pic

Draco and Lucius, in what appears to be Knockturn Alley.

Oh Tom. How you've grown! They now have you standing in a ditch to make you look shorter. And my, what outrageously big you have. No comments from this peanut gallery, of course.

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