muggles and curly fries

Hey, y'all.

Guess what we don't have to do for a-entire-nother semester? Finals. That's right. We're done with our winter finals. D-o-n-frikkin-e. Yay us for memorising this far, right? :)

I would say that the past couple days have been very adequate celebration. The 6LCF all chilled at Momo's and had a super fun sleepover complete with...

Doodles! (the title: "Things that R round," next to the scores for our card game. daddy, be proud.)

look at the pretty view!!!

AND WE MADE CURLY FRIES!!!! WITH CHEESE :D

As you can see, we had a pretty wicked time. Jealous? I think so.

In other news...
Guess what starts this Sunday?
Quidditch season is kicking off, yo.
I'll be the ref for a game xiy, Virgil, and Linda get to play in. Best of luck to you guys!
The only concern I have at the moment is how the high (as of now) is ~15°F... ugh. That's gonna be a bit chilly. We're required to have some adult from the school to be there, so there's a chance it could be cancelled?* (Also, this is the first game I'll have ever actually been part of. And I'll most likely be the only ref there. Ohmigosh >.<)

So, yeah. That's about it.
I'm gonna go enjoy the rest of our nice, long weekend :D

With all due respect,
House


*Even though you [obviously] can't cancel quidditch.

There's a seriously legit amount of snow on the ground outside....

Hi guys.

I'm sick. 

It's not contagious though, so don't back up like that. I have pneumonia. It's not fun. It's not the really bad kind, just the basic cough/fever kind. There's this weird crackling thing going on in my lungs and it feels weird. There's also not as much oxygen going to my brain as there should be. Hence, not much writing is going on. Not much of anything is going on.

I've barely edged past 5k in my novel. The last sentence was.... (oh God, I haven't even looked at the document in three days)...

"The feeling of freedom was short-lived. Unfortunately, Xerxes would always be Ajax’s master." 

I renamed the story-within-the-story protagonist as Ajax Wolfe. The previous name did not please me, so I changed it at the last minute.

(Xerxes is his cat's name. I think that was xiy's idea.) 

Happy NaNo-ing and merry Christmas!!

Virgil

Leave your doting messages of sympathy in the comments. 

Oh and p.s. our school is starting a Quidditch club, and I think my life is complete.  

P.P.S OHMYROWLING THERE'S LESS THAN TWO WEEKS LEFT UNTIL HARRY POTTER 

It's Massively Icky Outside >.<"

Happy NaNo. Yay, wordcounts...
Alright, we've gotten that out of the way.

Look at me, posting. Yay, me. This week (as you may have noticed), two members forgot to post. [Be still, my beating heart...] I do not know if we're doing anything about that, but something surely will develop soon. Props to Carrie and Lynda, though. Welcome to the Forgot to Post... Heh, Oops Club! *celebrates*

In more exciting news, it's cold and icky and freezing raining outside. I'd usually take this space to grumble and moan about being cold and not being able to feel my fingers, but whatever. The temperature falling outside means that it's time for hot apple cider!!! Zomg! And hot chocolate with cinnamon! Ahhh.

Speaking of cinnamon...
Okay, not really. I'm just bad at these transition things.
Our school is starting up a Quidditch Club! This is seriously exciting for all of us nerds. The club isn't yet legit legit, but it will be soon enough. We just have to present in front of student counsel ^_^ Momo, Virgil, and I attended the meeting this week, but that doesn't mean it's too late for the other three Curly Fries. [hint, hint]
If you don't know what (muggle) quidditch is, well...

A Basic Run-Down of Muggle Quidditch

We play on an open field, usually a large one marked for soccer. There are three hula-hoops used as goals.

There are five positions: keeper, chaser, beater, seekers, and the snitch runner. The keeper acts as a goalie (one per team); the chasers score the goals (three per team); beaters try to hinder other players by chucking dodge balls at them (two per team). Lastly, there are the seekers and the snitch runner. The snitch runner sprints all over wherever they'd like while for the game while the seekers (one per team) try to tackle them to the ground and steal a tennis ball away from the snitch runner. (Oh, and refs.)
A game ends when the tennis ball is stolen from the snitch runner.
The game is quite physical. You're not allowed to play if you start bleeding, according to the rule book.


Because we muggles can't fly (tear, tear), we must run with a broom between our legs for the entire game. I must admit that it looks pretty swag.

So... yeah. That's about it.
Oh, and get well soon, Virgil!!!!!!!! (She's sick, [sadface].) We miss you D:

With all due respect,
House

Virgil's World (Cup)

Have you ever noticed that when you write a certain word more than about five or six times, it starts to look funny, as if you've spelled it wrong or something, even if you've spelled it right? No? Okay, never mind, that's just me. Moving on.

*theme music plays* (to the tune of "Elmo's World") La-la-la-la, la-la-la-la, Virgil's World! La-la-la-la, la-la-la-la, Virgil's World! Virgil loves quadratics and Potter too! That's Virgil's Whhirrrrlldd! *end theme music*

So... today is kind of officially the first day of summer vacation. I know that Thursday was supposed to be, but we still had to go to school for graduation, and then yesterday we went to Cedar Point, which still involved garish yellow buses and teachers. Also, this morning I had an audition for a very prestigious youth orchestra in our area (which went well even though there's no chance that I'll be getting in, regardless) so I couldn't actually relax until that was over. Now I'm on vacation.

When I'm on vacation, my brain somewhat turns off. Today, I think I'm just going to jog for a bit on the treadmill and then start outlining this new idea that I got for a story the other day. I might study some Latin or read some more of Lessons from an Optical Illusion (which I've been reading for several weeks now and still haven't finished) ...but I'll probably just end up reading fanfiction.

What should I talk about? I was going to write about the last day of school and then our field trip, but Lynda and House decided to have *collab posts* - so instead of posting about those things in here, I felt obligated to post about them over there. 

You know, yesterday was probably the last time that all six of us will be together in the same place for a while. We're all going to different places over the summer, so starting in about a week, we'll never all be in the same state, let alone the same room. 

OH I know! I'll write about the World Cup. That'll be fun. 

So there are two World Cups going on this summer. There's the football one, which is taking place right now in South Africa, and then there's the Quidditch World Cup 2010 (yes, since there is one every four years and there was one in 1994 when the 4th book took place, there should be one in 2010). The latter isn't being broadcast-ed on American Muggle television, but the former is, so I've been watching bits and pieces of the matches, even though I'm honestly not that interested in football. 

I don't have much else to say, really.

Questions:

1) By how many points do you think England will slaughter America in today's match?

2) Do you like football?

3) What do you do on summer days when you don't have anything planned?

4) What is your favourite song?

5) Do you think that I should go do something productive instead of coming up with more questions?

6) Do you have a favourite quote? What is it?

7) Celtics or Lakers?

8) Where is your favourite place in the entire world? 

DFTBA,

PDBAZ,

Peace, love, & otters,

Virgil