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I use my 20 minute drive to school in the mornings and afternoons as my time to let out some huge farts (because after almost 4 years, I still have never and have no plans to fart in front of my fiance). Well just as I found a parking spot before my evening class, I ripped a huge one. Like, I felt like it would lift me off my seat and it made an air bubble in my underwear and everything. Last night's dinner was home-made burgers, so the smell was epic and I was quite proud of myself. I have a little chuckle to myself as I leave and go to my class. Once class was over, I go to drive home and when I opened the car door, I was hit in the face with the most rank smell ever. My fart lingered, locked up in my car, and waited for me to return. I actually had to drive with my windows down for the first few minutes of my commute.

The best part? My class is three. hours. long.

3 hour watchdog? That has to be a record.

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2009/11/12/three-half-blood-prince-clips-released-on-warner-blu-facebook-page

The official Facebook page for Warner Bros. BluRay DVDs, Warner Blu, has posted three clips from the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DVD special features.  These short clips are of Harry, Professor Slughorn, and Hagrid at Aragog's funeral; Professor Slughorn's first Potions Class; and Ron's debut on the Quidditch Pitch.The Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DVD is set for a ...

Well, shit. I'm feeling like crap. This had better not mean I'm coming down with something.

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2009/11/12/j-k-rowling-to-return-to-society-scotland

The Scotsman has a report online regarding the special general meetings of the MS Society Scotland taking place and a representatives belief that the possible independence of the organization could bring back former patron J. K. Rowling.  As readers will recall, last April Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling stepped down from her role as patron of the MS Society due to internal conflicts. Today, ...

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I have been posting a lot lately. Five times in two weeks! Crazy. Anyway, some things:

* http://twitter.com/big_ben_clock
made me lol.

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop
clearly this is just more evidence that there are SEA MONSTERS in the ocean. giant sea monsters.

* I just got the lecture schedule for the summer paper I am taking next week. Topics include: "How and when we die" "Intensive care and dying" "Examining cemeteries" "Disposal of the body." awesome, yet depressing.

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Title: Remus Lupin and the Possibility of Snow White's Face Being Marred Beyond All Reason.
Author: i_dreadtothink
Pairing: Remus/Sirius
Rating: R overall. PG-13 this part.
Word Count: 991/???
Genre: Humor/Romance
Chapter: 1/??
Summary: Or, why Remus Lupin punched Sirius Black in the face.
Warnings: Swearing, brief sexual content and implied sex, teenage angst, incoherent thoughts, overall ridiculousness.
Notes: Normally, I'm not a fan of Gryffinwhore!Sirius...but in this case, I was glad to toss aside my usual idea of Sirius for this fic. :)
Disclaimer: DO NOT OWN!!! D:

The First Journal Entry: In Which Remus Lupin Refers to Himself in the Third Person.

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2009/11/12/images-of-bonnie-wright-and-robert-pattinson-at-new-moon-fan-event-now-online

Last night, the a UK fan event for the film New Moon, the second installment of the Twilight franchise, took place in London, England.  Harry Potter actors Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley) and Robert Pattinson (Cedric Diggory) were in attendance, and images from the red carpet are now available here in our Image Galleries.On a related note, a New Moon photocall took place in Madrid this afternoon,...

So, last night when I was feeling contemplative and shit, fiddleyoumust was making this lady gaga picspam. I really love her, friends list. A LOT. She is super attractive (I love her with dark hair, omg) and super talented (seriously). And her music is fun! Anyway, you should all go look at it and ♥_♥

And I didn't like this song much at first, but it has definitely grown on me.

I'm in a really good mood today, and I don't know if it's all to do with the post I made this morning or not, but I know that's part of it. I just feel happy.

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2009/11/12/pitfalls-of-teenage-love-featurette-from-hbp-dvd-released

A brand new clip from the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DVD special features has been released, showcasing love, lust, and obsession in the sixth film.  The Pitfalls of Teenage featurette, which is available to watch via iTunes, features the cast and crew discussing the development and results of
the many relationships explored during the sixth film.  The three
minute, fifty-t...

So I had really bad heartburn and, in absence of a regular anti acid that tastes like fake fruit or something, I was forced to use baking soda. The taste almost makes me ill but this was incredible amounts of pain.

So it started to work within moments... Then the acid plus the baking soda caused burps. Not just burps... Burps that taste like death. I've farted and claimed it sounded like death. But this is the first time I've ever burped and tasted death. I might be dying. It's been two hours of burping. I am not sure why it is going on for so long. I almost threw up a few times. Anyone else have experience with death-burps?

Update: Just puked whatever is in my esophagus up into my mouth (I have trouble swallowing in the first place). The death taste is indescribable. The taste make me puke more. How can anything be so vile?

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2009/11/11/tom-felton-accepts-favorite-film-award-for-hbp-at-switch-awards

Harry Potter actor Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) was on hand at the BBC Switch Awards to collect the Favorite Flick honor for the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince film at the awards ceremony.  Thanks to the BBC, video of the young actor after collecting the award is now online, and includes a short Q&A with Mr. Felton.  This Q&A shows Mr. Felton discussing the 'bad' side of his character, his...

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2009/11/11/new-photos-video-of-the-wizarding-world-of-harry-potter-construction

There are new photos and a video (which can be found in our Video Galleries) of the continuing construction of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter Attraction at Universal Studios, Orlando on the Attractions Magazine Blog online.  These new construction photos show the amount of work currently underway on the the small details of such structures as the Hogwarts Castle and Hogsmeade Village.  Pho...

J just got back from the final Cross Country dinner. Turns out he lettered. Yep, my freshman son has lettered. This is so cool.

...hmmm......methinks it's finally time to stop using my hmo's pharma and go have a serious chat with our local alternative place. See what they have to say on the topic. Find out if they can get me the Erfa stuff, or at least compound something without the damned cellulose filler.

On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

Title: Winter Wonderland
Author: batmanboxers [Sarah]
Pairing: Remus/Sirius
Rating: PG-13
POV: Third
Word Count: 700
Summary: Sirius struts from beneath the canopy and leans against a very straggly looking tree, watching his boyfriend with mild amusement.
Disclaimer: I am not JKR
Warnings: Mild swearing
Author Notes: This was written for sopdetly to cheer her up. I hope you like it lovely :3 :3

His face is flushed from the cold and his hair has become a sort of fuzzy halo that Remus itches to run his fingers through.