The rules:
* Link to the person that tagged you.
* Post the rules on your blog.
* Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.
* Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.
* Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.

1. I love cleaning up…. just not in my own home.
2. I turn around my chair before sitting down if I’m lost in thoughts. I’m convinced it proves Darwin right.
3. I’m really afraid of the dark, I turn lights on serially around the house if I move around at night.
4. Even if I’m a geek, I don’t really even want to ever understand how computers work. I like the fact that they appear magical to me. What can I say? I love Clarke’s Third Law.
5. I am Dumbledore’sRodney’s woman through and through.
6. If I could live with only one item on a stranded beach, I would take the complete mega full edition of the Oxford Dictionary (the one that costs 11 600$ with discount)

I now tag: Patrick, Alexandre, Mike, Donncha, Cousine Marie, Yo

I just read the news on Mugglenet, and I must say I’m very surprised. Nowhere in the text have I ever felt it could have been understood through the lines that the headmaster was homosexual. I suppose I will have to read it all over again.

I’m also a little weirded out by all the slash fanfics out there. Some of them might actually be true now! I’m also worried of the consequences on the book this will bring, there are enough people bashing the series on grounds of witchcraft to add homophobia or pedophilia into it.

and is it just me or does anyone else have the feeling this smells like publicity stunt?

EDIT : I just read this article dealing on the subject in the Time Magazine and it,s pretty much what I thought, only more intelligently written *s*

I’m leaving now in only a few short hours to go frolicking on the beach. It’s been a really old family summer vacation tradition that disappeared when I was around 8 years old (aka the year I watched The Little Mermaid a gazillion times and my parents had twitches whenever they could hear Under the Sea‘ opening notes). But since my oldest brother started being a old teenager/young adult while I was still a toddler, he didn’t join us in summer beach vacations and we realized late last month that it has been 22 full years since we’ve all been together in vacation at the beach! It feels weird a bit, because it makes me realize I was never really conscious of those summers because I was too young. And also there has been 3 important births since then!

It will be a long ride but it should be fun. I brought a lot of CDs to listen on the way. It should be fun to see how my brothers react to  certain songs :) I mean, it’s in my job description as a little sister to bring some insanity to their lives!

Completly unrelatedly, I started reading a little my Chicago Manual of Style last night going to bed (yes reading grammar helps falling asleep) and it was very nice to see written in there that English doesn’t have a real future tense. Ah-HA! And there is a huge section on word choices. Like when to use dependence or addiction, or the difference between abjure and adjure or being accused or charged. It almost makes me wish my job was to read novels before printing and see if the words are correctly used. It’s the sort of nitpicking I enjoy. I’ll definitely keep it on my nightstand now.

Yesterday I was woken at the most evil hours of the early morning (9am) by Debbie who reminded me that I was supposed to be at La Ronde already… It was a fantastic day and we barely waited at all, even at the very big intense rides. It was a beautiful humid but not too hot day with not too much sun, which was splendid because I hadn’t put on sunscreen. We went on the Goliath which is possibly the best roller coaster ever so far. I screamed the whole time at an intensely high pitched sound, and half the time my screams were so high that they were unaudible and it was absolute silence except for all the dogs around who probably started whimpering. It was the greatest ever and I can’t believe that I can do it endlessly for the whole summer as much as I want now that I have my seson pass! Wohooo!

I added this video here but don’t worry, I haven’t had a surgery to turn me into a teenager boy with whiskers.

Oh and also, thanks for not making fun of me and my soft spot for Nathan. I’ve seen him in the B serie horror movie Slither and he was fantastic, and his role was really cool in Waitress and from what I’ve seen of the trailers of Serenity I can tell he’s gonna warm up my pirate fan girl side no problems. Which reminds me, I so have to reread Robin Hobb’s ships books just because of that fantastic pirate in it. Mmmm.. what was his name again?

Last tuesday when my religion class was canceled I went to browse around at the bookstore on my way home and bought a couple of nifties. I searched for the latest Robin Hobb and Juliet Marillier but both authors’ sections was empty as if a herd of fans had came in before me… I continued looking around searching for a novel I had seen before : The Confessions of an ugly step-sister and eventually I got it. Then I made my way to the knitting & cafts section of the bookstore (I am only human!) and there I saw a really cool jeans cutting booklet that I just *had* to get for Debbie even though her birthday is in 8 months.

Tangeant. It’s all good to be against the idea of commercialism crass during christmas but I like giving gifts damnit! It isn’t a tradition that should be lost just because commercialism has taken over it. Let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water. End of tangeant.

In the knitting section I saw the latest book by the Yarn Harlot whose blog I read daily and I got it for myself but when I read it through I was not as impressed as with her first book and since I had re-activated my membership card they said I should carry the proof of purchase in case the card wasn’t properly re-magnetized. So I still had the coupon. I could return it. Which I did. I felt so “Badddddddddddddd to the bone” at the moment but otoh, I walked out happily with a copy of “Charmed Knits” which has some totally cool patterns of Hermione elf hats, Dobbie socks, Weasley sweaters and so much more… including a bag that looks totally awesome!! I just haven’t figured out what it has to do with Harry Potterness, but who cares? It looks hot and I want it. It also includes two patterns I already paid for but now I have them in book goodness format. So I’m very satisfied :D

Mentioning smileys, I have a definite crush on the new googleTalk ones. They are so adorable! They make me forget that today I am trying to go give blood again. I hope I manage to do it this time, no feeling faint.