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	<title>Damaged Yet Delightful</title>
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		<title>True love fanmix tracklisting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey guys. Here is the tracklisting for a fanmix I&#8217;m making about true love. I&#8217;d welcome suggestions about the title and any other songs!!

Order of tracks is not fixed yet either, this is just the order I thought of them/found them on my iPod:

 1) She&#8217;s Gonna Find Me Here - Melee
 2) Average Girl [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey guys. Here is the tracklisting for a fanmix I&#8217;m making about true love. I&#8217;d welcome suggestions about the title and any other songs!!<br />
<br />
Order of tracks is not fixed yet either, this is just the order I thought of them/found them on my iPod:<br />
<br />
 1) She&#8217;s Gonna Find Me Here - Melee<br />
 2) Average Girl - BarlowGIRL<br />
 3) Just Friends - Jonas Brothers<br />
 4) Perfect - Fairground Attraction<br />
 5) Haven&#8217;t Met You Yet - Michael Buble (<33333)<br />
 6) I Believe In Love - Dixie Chicks<br />
 7) What Makes You Different - Backstreet Boys<br />
 8 ) Princes and Frogs - Superchic[k]<br />
 9) All Time Love - Will Young<br />
10) Beautiful Soul - Jesse McCartney<br />
11) Feels Like Home - Chantal Kreviazuk<br />
12) Gotta Find You - Joe Jonas (if you ignore the context from the movie it works SO WELL OMG)<br />
13) Love is On Its Way - Jonas Brothers<br />
14) Some Day My Prince Will Come - Snow White (I HAD TO)<br />
15) When I Fall In Love - Celine Dion and Clive Griffin<br />
<br />
Note: Rebekah also suggested &#8220;Heaven Forbid&#8221; by The Fray, but I haven&#8217;t listened to it yet!</p>
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		<title>Video Bonanza?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I just looked through all my memory cards from this summer and OH YEAH, I have like four hours of video or something stupid like that. I don&#8217;t know what to upload first etc. so I&#8217;m looking for some guidance. Do you want it chronologically? Do you want particular things? Do you want entire shows [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just looked through all my memory cards from this summer and OH YEAH, I have like four hours of video or something stupid like that. I don&#8217;t know what to upload first etc. so I&#8217;m looking for some guidance. Do you want it chronologically? Do you want particular things? Do you want entire shows uploaded? Do you want the videos of people uploaded first? So I&#8217;m going to detail what the videos are, tell me what you want here, or on Twitter or Skype. Here we go! Listed chronologically:</p>
<p>
<strong>LIBRARY SHOW ST LOUIS, 10th JUNE - TRL, G&#038;F</strong><br />
 1) Gred and Forge (+ Alex and Tyler) - My Ear&#8217;s Not Here (a bunch of people are also in this video - Ashle and Kassie, Beth, Rachel, Lauren and James SL, Nate, Cryssy, Paul and Devon briefly)<br />
 2) Gred and Forge - Percy is a Prat<br />
 3) Gred and Forge - Her Dark Mark (cuts off at 0.59, not sure if you&#8217;d want this or not).<br />
 4) Gred and Forge - the end of Her Dark mark, has Danielle sitting on the floor with a group of kids, Michelle, Beth, Rachel, Lauren iSL and Nate.<br />
 5) Gred and Forge - Our Family is Poor (with Alex + Tyler, Alex beats the CRAP out of the drums. It&#8217;s epic).<br />
 6) Gred and Forge - We Miss Quidditch<br />
 7) Gred and Forge - Ginny Gets Around<br />
 <img src='http://lauren.digitalkiss.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt='8)' class='wp-smiley' /> The Remus Lupins - Don&#8217;t Duel<br />
 9) TRL - APWBD<br />
10) TRL - The Weasleys<br />
11) TRL - Luna Lovegood<br />
12) TRL - Marauders Worst Memory (and &#8220;album release show&#8221; announcement)<br />
13) TRL - I Was A Teenage Werewolf<br />
14) TRL - Tyler plays bass for a bit, then Toby gets the sax out and they play Remember Cedric. AWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOME.<br />
15) TRL - Lovely Lily. *this is split into two files because I didn&#8217;t know it extended. It was the first time I&#8217;d heard it XD*<br />
16) TRL - Alex tunes and rambles&#8230;<br />
17) TRL - &#8220;Forgive me, I never forgot you&#8221;&#8230;I don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s called. Fan!fail.<br />
18) TRL - &#8220;Hi to people on the internet!&#8221; - Devon and Jenni - The Order<br />
19) TRL - Precious Days?<br />
<BR><br />
<strong>LIBRARY SHOW EVANSTON, CHICAGO, JUNE 12TH - TRL, G&#038;F, TONKS AND THE AURORS</strong><br />
 1) TatA - I&#8217;ll Be There<br />
 2) TRL + TatA + G&#038;F = Marauder&#8217;s Worst Memory<br />
<BR><br />
<strong>PCLUPINWILLOW, STL. JULY SOMETIME</strong><br />
 - Clip from On Behalf of Neville, already online - features a bunch of wizards I love wrocking out.<br />
<BR><br />
<strong>NON-MUSICAL VIDEOS</strong><br />
 1) Danielle and I vlog from the roof of City Museum. We uploaded this, right?<br />
 2) I pedal to light up lightbulbs at the Missouri Botanical Garden<br />
 3) Short Dance Time driving clip with Danielle and Michelle<br />
 4) Short Goodbye Privet Drive dance clip<br />
 5) Shakespeare&#8217;s Pizza clip!<br />
 6) Space Needle! (+Jenn DePrey)<br />
 7) Driving through (Everett?) with Rebekah to the sound of Lady Gaga XD<br />
 <img src='http://lauren.digitalkiss.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt='8)' class='wp-smiley' /> Jetty Island with Rebekah<br />
 9) Rebekah&#8217;s AWESOME SEATBELTS.<br />
10) Elvis tells my fortune at Pike Place (+Hannah <3)<br />
11) Amazing guitar-playing hula-hoop guy at Pike Place<br />
12) Hannah and Z: "Hey There Little Red Riding Hood"<br />
13) Hannah doing the robot and dancing <img src='http://lauren.digitalkiss.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':-P' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
<BR><br />
Various videos of leopards etc at Chicago zoo&#8230;also Danielle narrates some lions which is one of the funniest voiceovers ever&#8230;also Enchanted Species carousel&#8230;<br />
<BR><br />
<strong>CHICAGO HARRY POTTER EXHIBIT/DRIVING TO OHIO</strong><br />
 1) Danielle and I vlog in front of the Flying Ford Anglia<br />
 2) A cuboid poster thing becomes a photo op of HILARITY. This is on facebook already.<br />
 3) Megan driving and us singing to Elvis.<br />
<BR><br />
<strong>HOGWARTS CLASS OF 1984 - CINCINNATI, OHIO</strong><br />
 1) Waiting to get in - Carrie, Taryn L, Megan + CheleLlama, Emily and Mallory.<br />
 2) Not the Future Mrs Weasley (from a bad angle, eek) - with Nate, Megan, Wendy, Carrie, Ariel, Patrick, Shae and Jen Drucker all in evidence.<br />
 3) Dancing in the Dark - Tonks and the Aurors, with a rad dance cameo by Alex and Monica!<br />
 4) Michelle and Danielle, short clip<br />
 5) Like a Prayer - Megan, Nate, Danielle, Michelle, Ariel, Jen Drucker, Susie, Michelle G etc.<br />
 6) Alex&#8217;s dancefloor slide entrance ~ The Rainbow Connection ~ The Weasleys ~ I Gotta Feeling<br />
 7) Alex performs You Spin Me Right Round ~ Luna Lovegood<br />
 <img src='http://lauren.digitalkiss.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt='8)' class='wp-smiley' /> Aaron as Freddie Mercury sings We Are The Champions while Alex changes guitars.<br />
 9) &#8220;No pants&#8230;sometimes you just have to say what the fuck&#8221; intro by Alex, then I Was A Teenage Werewolf<br />
10) Alex - What I Like About You ~ 867-5309<br />
11) Guitar change, then Alex plays Lovely Lily and Under the Sea<br />
12) Alex - Use Somebody ~ I Wish You&#8217;d Be My Witch ~ The Power of Love (Huey Lewis and the News)<br />
13) Alex and Steph banter for a bit ~ Just What I Needed (The Cars)<br />
14) Alex, MoM, Steph, Erinn Lewis and Jenna Fuerst - Looking For Trouble<br />
15) MoM - The Power of Love (Huey Lewis and the News)<br />
16) MoM - Accio Love<br />
17) MoM - Goodbye Privet Drive + Gryffindor Rally Cry (with Abby - who smashes her fake foam guitar)<br />
18) MoM - Ministry of Magic (Megan, Michelle, Danielle all visible)&#8230;and Ryan eats cake? and then Snape vs Snape, with Alex<br />
19) MoM - The Bravest Man I Ever Knew<br />
20) MoM - Mischief Managed<br />
21) MoM - Don&#8217;t Stop Believin&#8217;<br />
<BR><br />
Three clips of Beerball - Monica, Steph and Alex.<br />
+Indiana State Museum pendulum short clip.<br />
<BR><br />
<strong>More non-music videos, from fourth memory card:</strong><br />
 1) Giant mechanical dinosaur in Toys &#8216;R&#8217; Us, Times Square NY<br />
 2) Times Square panorama with Wendy talking in the background about a barn dance her friend went to XD<br />
 3) Ariel having her skirt blown up standing on a subway grate at a street fair<br />
 4) Jess&#8217;s apartment in Texas<br />
 5) Mark doing the White Boy dance in Texas (on Facebook already)<br />
 6) Mark &#8220;The most interesting man in the world&#8221; in Texas (on Facebook already)<br />
 7) 7 minute long video of the Texas housewarming wherein we are all drunk and it is hilarious.<br />
 <img src='http://lauren.digitalkiss.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt='8)' class='wp-smiley' /> Adrianne and Ceci dancing to &#8220;Maria&#8221; by Blondie (Texas)<br />
 9) Sarah and Annie feeding birds at Richmond Metro Zoo.<br />
Multiple videos in which giraffes refuse to eat food from our hands.<br />
Then one where Sarah and I both manage to feed a giraffe.<br />
Then the carousel and two videos of the skyride.<br />
<BR><br />
<strong>WROCKSTOCK III</strong><br />
 1) Whompy introducing the Mudbloods<br />
 2) Mudbloods - Not afraid to die?<br />
 3) Eulogy for an Acromantula<br />
 4) A Pensieve Full of Unrequited Love<br />
 5) Mudbloods rap?<br />
 6) Audience singing The Weapon (very dark)<br />
<BR><br />
<strong>ALSO:</strong><br />
On my phone (not sure how to upload them anywhere yet, will work on it XD):<br />
<BR><br />
 1) DatM - 99 Death Eaters beginning (30secs, I was quite far back D:)<br />
 2) DatM - the rest of 99 Death Eaters (still quite far back) (also you can hear me singing XD shutup, I love DatM)<br />
 3) OBatR - Grab My Wand, I Dare You. (quality not brilliant, not too far from the front though)<br />
 4) OBatR - Bridge to the Other Side<br />
 5) Welsh Jess rolling around in some leaves being AVPM!Malfoy. I laugh kind of obnoxiously. But it was HILARIOUS.<br />
 6) RiddleTM - Thestrals. I go &#8220;WOOOO!&#8221; loudly sometimes. Inebriation is fun XD Also you can hear James and I talking. Sorry XD and singing haha.<br />
 7) RiddleTM - Draco&#8217;s Christmas Wish. You can hear me singing again.<br />
 <img src='http://lauren.digitalkiss.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt='8)' class='wp-smiley' /> RiddleTM - For Jo. I tell James I think he&#8217;s going to cry. (he didn&#8217;t XD).<br />
 9) RiddleTM - Beans. James and I sing along audibly. It was FUNNY. He knows fewer words than I do.<br />
10) The Whomping Willows - Merch Girls are Easy. I was on the floor by the side of the stage sitting down holding a plug in the socket so the lights overhead would stay on (don&#8217;t even ask) so it&#8217;s a really weird angle XD also I sing along somewhat audibly. I didn&#8217;t MEAN to focus on Nina&#8217;s ass all the time, that&#8217;s just the angle I was at. Yeah, you can barely see Matt, mostly Nina and Jarrod on drums at the back XD I think I went to talk to someone and then there were too many people to try and squeeze through so I just sat down XD<br />
11) The Whomping Willows - House of Awesome. You get to see Lauren rock out for a few seconds before Nina climbs back on stage and blocks her XD Also Ami Dawn for a sec&#8230;<br />
12) The Whomping Willows - Draco and Harry. Anna switches the plug to the lower socket and it works without needing held in. Such a simple answer! She and Vago also wrock out a lot and sing to the camera. So does Vanishing Jenn and Maria is also visible!<br />
13) The Whomping Willows - I Believe In Nargles<br />
14) The Whomping Willows - Wizard Rock Heart Throb. (I was yelling &#8220;ALEX CARPENTER!&#8221; so I missed what he ACTUALLY said. What did he say that time? XD) Also look out for Nina doing &#8220;Junk in the trunk&#8221; hahaha.<br />
15) The Whomping Willows - a song I don&#8217;t know, presumably from Demons at the Helm although you never know.<br />
16) The Whomping Willows - another song I don&#8217;t know.<br />
17) The Whomping Willows - On behalf of Neville. I managed to catch Monica wrocking her ass off, though whether it&#8217;ll be too dark or actually visible I don&#8217;t know.</p>
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<BR><br />
fin.</p>
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		<title>Life Is A Highway</title>
		<link>http://lauren.digitalkiss.org/2009/08/life-is-a-highway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Yeah, cliched, I know, but it fits with both the blog theme and the content.

Surprise, I&#8217;m in Seattle!

Okay, that&#8217;s not really a surprise unless you don&#8217;t have me friended on Facebook, but whatever. I AM in Seattle.

So at 6am on Wednesday 19th I woke up (I know, right? Me, waking up at 6am??) and got [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;Yeah, cliched, I know, but it fits with both the blog theme and the content.<br />
<BR><br />
Surprise, I&#8217;m in Seattle!<br />
<BR><br />
Okay, that&#8217;s not really a surprise unless you don&#8217;t have me friended on Facebook, but whatever. I AM in Seattle.<br />
<BR><br />
So at 6am on Wednesday 19th I woke up (I know, right? Me, waking up at 6am??) and got ready, and then Beth and I put my big suitcase and stuff down in her storage area, and she drove me to Union Station to catch a Megabus. I had a little purple suitcase I borrowed from Michelle so I could just take carry-on luggage and not have to pay $20 for a checked bag (because that adds up! But also, omg, what kind of crazy person leaves for a month-long trip with HAND LUGGAGE? This is doomed to failure already because it was pretty full when I left and I already bought quite a few things today. I hasten to point out that ALL BUT ONE THING was for other people! I&#8217;m a giver.)<br />
<BR><br />
So anyway, Beth took me to Union Station, which was lovely of her, and I caught the Megabus, and it stopped at a Route 66 trucker store or something, I took a picture of it anyway, and I bought a little book of crossword puzzles and a copy of USA Today, because I am a journalism nerd. The air conditioning was broken so the driver couldn&#8217;t do anything about it and it got pretty warm. Also my pockets were full of laundry quarters and I lost one of them down the side of the seat, so I transferred them to my purse. I&#8217;m pretty sure I spent a few today though on a couple things.<br />
<BR><br />
Anyway XD So we got to Chicago at like 2pm or so, and I put my iPod away (I&#8217;d been listening to a playlist of new music - Lecrae, which I only bought the night before on Amazon, (Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar by the Guild, and some Jonas Brothers (well of course, it&#8217;s ME, people) and got off. Then I hit a snag. I went into Union Station to find a bathroom (yes, Union Station in Chicago. They&#8217;re BOTH Union Station. That happens a lot in America though right? Like Portland and Springfield XD) and then got completely, totally lost. I didn&#8217;t know how to get out in order to get to the Clinton blue line stop. The instructions on the website had said the night before, &#8220;Go two blocks South&#8221;. What do I know from South? I&#8217;m a Sociologist.<br />
<BR><br />
So I wandered around and asked a guard, whose instructions I couldn&#8217;t understand, then eventually bought a Cinnabon (because they looked so tasty and omg, it totally was) and then I tweeted about being lost, and nothing helped, and just as I was starting to freak out a little bit, like omg, I&#8217;m going to be stuck here forever because I don&#8217;t know what way to get out, and the six hours between the bus and my flight is starting to seem like it was an excellent idea, Danielle called me. So I called her back and she Googled and talked me through it, and I ate my Cinnabon and then I went on my way, and sure enough there it was - tucked away and with not a whole lot of signage. NEEDZ MOAR SIGNS. Also I totally maligned Chicago and the fact that I couldn&#8217;t find a free map of the station, it turned out there WAS one, I found it after I tweeted. So, sorry, Chicago. I was just a bit overwrought. But I was like &#8220;I can navigate the London Underground with no freaking problems but I can&#8217;t even find my way out of a Chicago train station? WTF?&#8221; and wishing I was in Covent Garden or even Leicester Square.<br />
<BR><br />
Anyway. So I got on the proper train and was soon at O&#8217;Hare airport. Too soon. At like 4pm. For an 8.50pm flight. So I killed some time, then I ate my leftover Pei Wei honey-seared chicken (SO TASTY), and then I went to the self check-in machines to check in and somehow there was a wad of watermelon gum on the floor and I somehow managed to set my Whomping Willows tote bag RIGHT ON TOP OF IT. It was disgusting. I scraped off as much as I could with my plastic fork and then I gave up. Then I went through security and sat down to wait.<br />
<BR><br />
I did crosswords, Sudoku from the paper, word games&#8230;I managed to plug my phone charger into a laptop outlet and charge it up so at least it didn&#8217;t die on me, thank goodness. And then I found out the flight was delayed until 10pm. At 9.15 I called Beth and went in search of McDonalds fries. Then I headed to the gate, only to find that they were BOARDING THE FLIGHT. Even though there were no announcements and the board just said &#8220;Now 10.05pm&#8221;. I was like, OMG. So I shoved the fries, in their to-go bag, into my tote and got on the plane (I know, I know. Anyone who&#8217;s ever encountered fast food on public transport probably just groaned right now. It IS a distinctive smell, shut up, I wasn&#8217;t thinking straight XD). So then people around me are going, &#8220;I can smell food!&#8221; and I was like, trying to keep my head down. I&#8217;m pretty sure my seatmates (I was in the middle of a row of three, my LEAST FAVOURITE place to be. Ugh. I think I have window seats on all the other flights that I&#8217;ve been able to confirm seating though. I HOPE.) totally clued in, but they both kept silent and went to sleep. So I went to sleep, although I did also read a little of An Abundance of Katherines, which I finally got a few weeks ago but had been saving for the plane XD<br />
<BR><br />
So we got to Seattle like an hour late and Jenn was waiting, which was really awesome and straightfoward, and then we drove back to her house&#8230;it&#8217;s a pretty long drive that late at night, so thank you Jenn <3<br />
<BR><br />
Today we got up earlyish (haha, 9.30, that&#8217;s earlyish for me) and had breakfast - omg, cinnamon and brown sugar Pop Tarts are sooo good - and then went to do touristy stuff. First was the Space Needle (SO AMAZING. The view is phenomenal! Also they took our picture and we bought it. And I got some souvenirs).<br />
<img style="border: 0px;" src="http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d127/moonie_the_great/Americaland%20and%20Randomness/S4010530.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="216" height="288" /><br />
<BR><br />
Then we went on a log flume and a rollercoaster, which were hilarious and we just could NOT stop laughing throughout. It was kind of silly but fun <img src='http://lauren.digitalkiss.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':-D' class='wp-smiley' /> Then we went to get something to eat, and we had fish and chips, which I found ironic because it&#8217;s sort of an iconic British dish, and it was really good, actually.<br />
<BR><br />
After that we headed to the Experience Music Project, which was SO GOOD. There were all these interesting exhibits, and I flailed a tiny bit over the Heart drum kit, which was so cool, and when I came to the grunge section I thought of Hannah N XD And then we went downstairs to the Science Fiction Museum and OMG, Beth, you would have loved it. There was sooo much Star Trek stuff, and some Star Wars stuff, and a bunch of things I had no clue even what they were about, but they didn&#8217;t allow photography (grrr) so the only photos I have from there are the giant sculpture thingy, if you can call it that, made up of mostly guitars but also drums and stuff, called &#8220;VI to IX&#8221; or something (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/empsfm/3331485060/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/empsfm/3331485060/</a>), which was amazing, and Jenn and I hugging a furry pink wall left behind by a now packed-up-and-ready-to-ship Muppets exhibition XD</p>
<p><img src="http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d127/moonie_the_great/Americaland%20and%20Randomness/S4010537.jpg" alt="Jenn and the wall" width="216" height="288" /><img src="http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d127/moonie_the_great/Americaland%20and%20Randomness/S4010538.jpg" alt="Me and the wall" width="216" height="288" /><br />
<BR><br />
After THAT, we got the monorail downtown to just wander about for a little bit and miss the traffic, and then we took it back again and drove back to her house. We had chicken and pasta for dinner and it was really tasty <img src='http://lauren.digitalkiss.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':-D' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
<BR><br />
So yeah, that&#8217;s the skin-and-bones details of the day I guess. But it&#8217;s funny. Sometimes I just get all &#8220;You know, I feel like life is totally passing me by.&#8221; And then there was today, where I was with a friend, outside, going on rides and learning about music and even just driving, listening to music. And I thought, actually no, this is what life is supposed to be.<br />
<BR><br />
So that was day one of my great American adventure. Tomorrow we&#8217;re meeting Rebekah and she&#8217;s taking me places since Jenn has to work, and we&#8217;ll see what that brings. Just know that I&#8217;m super excited for the rest of this trip.<br />
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		<title>Do I really eat that much different fast food?</title>
		<link>http://lauren.digitalkiss.org/2009/07/do-i-really-eat-that-much-different-fast-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been ridiculously busy. No, that&#8217;s a lie, because I&#8217;m pretty sure most of my time has been spent watching West Wing DVDs. And yet it&#8217;s July 19th. When did THAT happen?

Things I have actually done since getting here:

Went to the Botanical Garden with Beth (just today actually)
Saw Half Blood Prince (um, twice)
Went to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been ridiculously busy. No, that&#8217;s a lie, because I&#8217;m pretty sure most of my time has been spent watching West Wing DVDs. And yet it&#8217;s July 19th. When did THAT happen?<br />
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<u>Things I have actually done since getting here:</u></p>
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<li>Went to the Botanical Garden with Beth (just today actually)</li>
<li>Saw Half Blood Prince (um, twice)</li>
<li>Went to SLAM, with Beth and with Paul</li>
<li>Went to the History Museum, with Michelle and Abby</li>
<li>Took a road trip to Chicago and went to Hot Doug&#8217;s and Krispy Kreme</li>
<li>Rode the Metro all available ways (into Illinois, into St Louis on both red and blue lines, almost the whole way along both of them)</li>
<li>Took public buses</li>
<li>Saw Transformers 2, The Proposal, Star Trek (twice), Up!, Night at the Museum 2, Year One, at the movies</li>
<li>Saw Fight Club, Supernatural seasons 1-3 and some of 4, West Wing seasons 1-3 almost, Nick and Norah&#8217;s Infinite Playlist, Twilight, on DVD, </li>
<li>Ate stuff from McDonalds, Imo&#8217;s, Arby&#8217;s, Buffalo Wild Wings, Lee&#8217;s, The Creve Couer Lakehouse (last night), 54th Street Grill, Olive Garden, Sonic, KFC, A&#038;W/Long John Silver&#8217;s, That 50s Place, Blueberry Hill, Cold Stone Creamery, Chick-Fil-A&#8230;</li>
<li>Tried corn on the cob, zucchini, corndogs, fried green beans, toasted raviolis, root beer, Italian soda, Italian cake, &#8216;American&#8217; cake, American baked beans, pulled pork&#8230;</li>
<li>Seen The Remus Lupins, Gred and Forge, Tonks and the Aurors and The Whomping Willows Live. (G&#038;F twice, TRL three times - after having missed TRL a year ago, I then saw them three times in the space of a month here. Random and awesome.)
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As for things I still need to do, well attending a baseball game is up there, along with visiting the Arch, and I know Danielle has a list.<br />
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&#8230;I felt bad for not having updated so I overcompensated. Sorry.<br />
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I bought the issue of Time magazine with the wrock article in it (and also an article about why Scotland&#8217;s sheep are shrinking, which I&#8217;m actually wondering about now so much that I really want to read it XD) and y&#8217;know, some kind of commentary may be forthcoming&#8230;you know I love to comment on Muggle coverage of wrock <img src='http://lauren.digitalkiss.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':-P' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
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Anyway. I&#8217;m going to go now and watch some more West Wing. I found Heinz baked beans today and that made me happy <img src='http://lauren.digitalkiss.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':-D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>The good old US of A</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m in America! I can&#8217;t believe how awesome it is here. I mean, one long weekend did not fully demonstrate to me the awesomeness.
I flew from Glasgow airport at 10.15am on Saturday and arrived in Philadelphia at 12.30pm on Saturday&#8230;hahahahaha. It&#8217;s a total brain thing with the time difference. But it&#8217;s pretty cool. So [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I&#8217;m in America! I can&#8217;t believe how awesome it is here. I mean, one long weekend did not fully demonstrate to me the awesomeness.</p>
<p>I flew from Glasgow airport at 10.15am on Saturday and arrived in Philadelphia at 12.30pm on Saturday&#8230;hahahahaha. It&#8217;s a total brain thing with the time difference. But it&#8217;s pretty cool. So anyway, I arrived, and then I had Chick-Fil-A waffles in the airport (which, btw, OMG SO TASTY). Then I got my connecting flight to St Louis, which was an hour late because there were two identical US Airways planes at adjacent gates and they put our luggage in the wrong one&#8230;wtf, airport&#8230;but we made up the time in the air and ended up only 20 minutes late. Also I spent the whole three hour flight talking to the guy next to me, who reminded me so much of Tim (but with a little bit of Jack-from-Peeved added in) that it was creepy. He&#8217;s doing a PhD in engineering <img src='http://lauren.digitalkiss.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> so that was fun.<br />
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When we got to St Louis I realised Danielle didn&#8217;t actually know anything beyond &#8220;I&#8217;m getting in around 6!&#8221; and then I was like *facepalm*. But she was sitting there and it was ALL GOOD. So then we drove (well, she drove. I sat and was like OMGSOHOTHERE!!!) to her house and dropped off my stuff, and we went to Imo&#8217;s for pizza (well she got pizza, I got toasted ravioli, which OMG SO GOOD. I mean really. I&#8217;ll definitely be able to go to Imo&#8217;s with SLAW now and just have the toasted ravioli. It&#8217;s amazing) and thennn we watched some Supernatural and then we went over to her friend Ben&#8217;s house. It was really pretty, like a showhome, you know, with the fancy kitchen and all - and Ben was so freaking awesome. He had an Y Tu Mama Tambien poster on his wall which was a brillant start XD and also a copy of Augusten Burrows&#8217; memoir &#8220;Running With Scissors&#8221;. Not to mention the largest DVD collection I have EVER seen. Bar none.<br />
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So yeah, I met the mysterious Ben and then we drove back to Danielle&#8217;s and went to sleep.<br />
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Sunday we slept until 10ish then got up and went to Sonic for lunch that was actually more brunch. I got my first tater tots since Wrockstock and I was ridiculously happy about it XD Also, their lemon slushies are SO GOOD. Next we drove to Target where I got a US phone, something else I&#8217;m really happy about, and I bought a new pair of sunglasses because Danielle was like &#8220;Oh yeah, they&#8217;re awesome, you should totally get them!&#8221; So now I have three pairs here XD The new ones are pink and they&#8217;re really rad, though.<br />
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After that Michelle came over and we watched Ten Inch Hero, which is freaking AMAZING, really, and then some Supernatural (these girls are SPN obsessed, it&#8217;s pretty great, especially since they&#8217;re making me watch them and I&#8217;m really enjoying it XD) Then we went out for KFC and had a really random, hilarious conversation.<br />
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Yesterday, Danielle had to work and I basically stayed in all day getting people&#8217;s numbers and setting up Twitter and Facebook notifications for my phone. And then I discovered the Disney channel so I watched like five episodes of Wizards of Waverly Place, which is epic. And then Phineas and Ferb, which is also funny. And then even a little bit of Suite Life, which I&#8217;d been sure I wouldn&#8217;t watch. Drat XD Then we went and got McDonalds and then came back and ate it while watching Supernatural.<br />
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So today we&#8217;re at the SIUE campus, Danielle has a class and I&#8217;m squatting in the computer room, AIM-ing with Jess and trying to defend Twitter on a facebook status conversation. I got a text a little while ago saying &#8220;What t-shirt size do u wear? I have myrtles transparent shirt too big 4 me. U&#8217;re a sm girl, but w/big rack.&#8221; and I was like &#8220;Ok, random message from a number I don&#8217;t know talking about my rack. Uh huh?&#8221; but it turned out to be Lauren iSL hahaha. Which isn&#8217;t really that surprising XD so it&#8217;s all good. So that&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve done so far. Once Danielle&#8217;s done we&#8217;re going to apply for my social security number and then we&#8217;re going job hunting! And food will be involved somewhere, too. I had a smores pop-tart for breakfast and it was amazing XD<br />
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I&#8217;ve rambled enough for now XD I&#8217;ll catch you later <img src='http://lauren.digitalkiss.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>The Big News</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I totally haven&#8217;t been blogging&#8230;after a good start it sort of became a chore and I started forgetting and that was it. This is probably going to be the last one for at least a few weeks, too XD Sorry.
Anyway, if you&#8217;re reading this you probably know already, but I&#8217;m flying to America at [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I totally haven&#8217;t been blogging&#8230;after a good start it sort of became a chore and I started forgetting and that was it. This is probably going to be the last one for at least a few weeks, too XD Sorry.</p>
<p>Anyway, if you&#8217;re reading this you probably know already, but I&#8217;m flying to America at the weekend. I have an &#8216;exchange visitor&#8217; visa and I&#8217;m going to spend the summer working and then travel around for a bit before flying home to my loving family. This means that I&#8217;ll be gone from literally this weekend through mid September!</p>
<p>I&#8217;m pretty excited because I get to stay with Danielle for 9 weeks. She lives in IL, but technically I&#8217;ll be working in St Louis, MO, and I&#8217;m thrilled to be going back there and seeing all of St Louis Area Wizards (SLAW) again, especially my name-buddy Lauren. And then I&#8217;ll be travelling, and the idea right now is: West Virginia (to see Trinity and possibly go go-karting XD); Virginia (to see Sarah and probably hand-feed giraffes), maybe a road trip up to DC with Sarah, then to Ohio for &#8220;Hogwarts Class of &#8216;84&#8243; which is going to be an 80s themed gig and then dance party, 80s costume encouraged, and after which I&#8217;m going to be rooming with Danielle, Michelle from SLAW, Carrie (who my BFF Jess knows but I don&#8217;t really, but is apparently lovely :-D) and the awesome Susie. After THAT it&#8217;s looking like it&#8217;ll be New York (if not before Ohio, actually, that&#8217;s not really sorted out yet, Ohio was a last minute addition to the itinerary after Danielle told me about the show) where new and lovely friend Jenni has offered to show me around, and then hopefully to Washington State if I can swing it (I know, it&#8217;s a REALLY far place to get to from NY) to see Washington Jenn and Rebekah, my first ever fandom friend who is confusingly ALSO named Jenn XD and Hannah who might tattoo me. Then back to MO and then home XD</p>
<p>So it&#8217;s shaping up to be a freaking exciting summer. Not least because I&#8217;ll actually be in the same state as Maggie, too, so we could possibly meet at some point (even though she&#8217;s Kansas City, not St Louis) and HCo84 means I might meet Allie and Vago since they&#8217;re in Ohio, and y&#8217;know, the general awesomeness of OMG I&#8217;LL BE IN AMERICA!</p>
<p>So yeah <img src='http://lauren.digitalkiss.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> I&#8217;m going to try and keep this blog updated sometimes but I might not have net access very often. You can follow my adventures on Twitter though, by clicking <a href="http://www.twitter.com/glasgirl">here</a>.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s to a really great summer and lots of pictures and video when I get home!! <img src='http://lauren.digitalkiss.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':-D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>House Wars</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 05:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight we had #housewars on Twitter and it was one of the most hilarious things EVER.
Here&#8217;s the short Tweetsplanation I sent Julia:
@juliapwns a tweet convo between @omgitsjace @sallyslytherin and @slytherykin (and some thrown in by me, @jesuischele and @slythphoenix ) 14 minutes ago from web
@juliapwns &#8230;turned into a discussion on which houses were best, we [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tonight we had #housewars on Twitter and it was one of the most hilarious things EVER.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the short Tweetsplanation I sent Julia:</p>
<p>@juliapwns a tweet convo between @omgitsjace @sallyslytherin and @slytherykin (and some thrown in by me, @jesuischele and @slythphoenix ) 14 minutes ago from web</p>
<p>@juliapwns &#8230;turned into a discussion on which houses were best, we decided Ravenclaw and Slytherin would be an unbeatable team and started 14 minutes ago from web</p>
<p>@juliapwns talking about how we&#8217;d win. @sallyslytherin started the #housewars tag and a bunch of us declared allegiance. That&#8217;s about it XD 13 minutes ago from web</p>
<p>@juliapwns Just a bunch of smacktalk and far too many Slytherins and Ravenclaws (20+) against like 5 Gryffs/Puffs. Does that help? 13 minutes ago from web</p>
<p>So there was some smacktalk, like this:</p>
<p><strong>sallyslytherin</strong>: Slytherin haiku: We are the best/This school is for Salazar/You all can suck itabout 4 hours ago from TweetDeck </p>
<p><em>Then we realised we could work together and win:</em></p>
<p><strong>slytherykin</strong> : @OMFGItsJace @sallyslytherin I still think we should unite and finally deal with those Gryffindors and Hufflepuffs. We&#8217;re the clever houses!about 4 hours ago from web </p>
<p><strong>sallyslytherin:</strong>  @OMFGItsJace Ravenclaws can plan the fight, Slytherins can fight it. Wow, it&#8217;s a perfect marriage of houses!about 4 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to OMFGItsJace</p>
<p><em>So started, officially, with this:</em></p>
<p><strong>sallyslytherin:</strong> Why isn&#8217;t there a game called Hogwarts House Wars? I&#8217;m starting it. Trending topic #housewarsabout 4 hours ago from TweetDeck</p>
<p>THEN:</p>
<p><strong>sallyslytherin:</strong> If anyone wants to start the Gryffindor/Hufflepuff Alliance, be my guest. Just know that you will be crushed #housewarsabout 3 hours ago from TweetDeck</p>
<p>And finally:          </p>
<p><strong>OMFGItsJace</strong> : @glasgirl hahaha. Slytherin/Ravenclaw vs Gryffindor/Hufflepuff shall commence. #housewarsabout 3 hours ago from web in reply to glasgirl</p>
<p>And we were on XDDD          </p>
<p>So the Slytherins and Ravenclaws started smacktalking the Hufflepuffs and Gryffindors:</p>
<p><strong>slytherykin</strong> : @slythphoenix I tend to just respond with yelling stuff about hitting Hufflepuffs with wooden spoons? THEY LOOK LIKE BEES.about 3 hours ago from web in reply to slythphoenix</p>
<p><strong>slytherykin</strong>: Let&#8217;s face it, Hufflepuff and Gryffindor are gonna run in without a plan, trip each other up, and then get hexed like woah. #housewarsabout 3 hours ago from web </p>
<p>and poor Shannon was mostly on her own to hold up the other side:</p>
<p><strong>gryffindorgal87</strong> : @LoonyShoshan @glasgirl @sallyslytherin It is my duty to my house to say Gryffindor pwns all. We had Mama Weasley. <img src='http://lauren.digitalkiss.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong>gryffindorgal87</strong> : @glasgirl @sallyslytherin Slytherclaw: If you can&#8217;t mystify them with your inteligence, mystify them with your bullshit. ;-)about 4 hours ago from txt </p>
<p>and then Sylvie didn&#8217;t know WHAT the heck she was doing:</p>
<p><strong>hufflepuff4ever:</strong> @glasgirl @omfgitsjace @sallyslytherin Any room for an amazing Hufflepuff in this war?about 4 hours ago from mobile web </p>
<p><strong>huffepuff4ever:</strong> I AM PART OF THE SLYTHERIN/RAVENCLAW ALLIANCE BECAUSE I&#8217;M COOL. #housewarsabout 4 hours ago from mobile web </p>
<p><strong>hufflepuff4ever:</strong> MGNOOOOOO I&#8217;M GOING WITH THE GRYFFIE/PUFF ALLIANCE NOWWWW KTHXBAIabout 4 hours ago from mobile web </p>
<p><strong>hufflepuff4ever:</strong> WHAT ABOUT HOUSE OF AWESOME????!!!!!about 4 hours ago from mobile web </p>
<p><strong>hufflepuff4ever:</strong> HOUSE OF AWESOME WILL PWN ALL THE HOUSES EXCEPT HUFFLEPUFF.about 4 hours ago from mobile web </p>
<p>and then she gave up:</p>
<p><strong>hufflepuff4ever:</strong> *backs out of war* Peace, pleasekthanks?about 3 hours ago from mobile web </p>
<p>and the Slytherclaws were victorious:</p>
<p><strong>OMFGItsJace</strong>: Seriously, the #housewars are pretty much over, haha. Gryffindor/hufflepuffail ;)about 3 hours ago from web </p>
<p>And thennnn Alex couldn&#8217;t let it lie:</p>
<p><strong>theremuslupins:</strong> #housewars sorry, i was recording, did i miss the war? i do love a good war..about 3 hours ago from web </p>
<p><strong>theremuslupins</strong>: #housewars Well, you cant just HAVE a war. jeez.about 2 hours ago from web </p>
<p><strong>theremuslupins:</strong> Always spoiling for a fight, as long as its on your terms, arent you Crion? Bring it . #Housewarsabout 2 hours ago from web </p>
<p>And we started all over again! But by this time, @slytherykin, @slythphoenix and some other people had gone to bed, and @sallyslytherin had gone to work. And we were worried we might LOSE.</p>
<p>And there were a LOT of Gryffinpuffs turned up: like @pipsipirate who couldn&#8217;t smacktalk very well, because she&#8217;s too awesome:</p>
<p><strong>pipsipirate:</strong> @glasgirl Iz a Hufflepuff. i don&#8217;t do smacktalk well. #housewars slytherins are smelly?about 1 hour ago from web in reply to glasgirl</p>
<p>and a bunch of random people who Tweeted the &#8220;#housewars&#8221; tag. And then we were sad. But then @WizardRockDA and @nikkeekristen helped rally the troops, and @obockstal defected to our side, and @sallyslytherin came back, and other people signed up, and OVERALL WE WIN.</p>
<p>And then there was a Facebook group for the survivors: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=79497188633</p>
<p>Because we declared it should be so:</p>
<p><strong>deepwonderment</strong>: @GryffindorGal87 someone should make a facebook group for the surving #housewars thing.   33 minutes ago from DestroyTwitter</p>
<p><strong>glasgirl:</strong> I vote yes for FB group and the tagline &#8220;We who were there will never forget&#8221;, shamelessly cribbed from @riddletm &#8220;For Jo&#8221; XDDD #housewars   24 minutes ago from web</p>
<p><strong>sallyslytherin</strong>: @glasgirl I will make it right now! #housewars   24 minutes ago from TweetDeck</p>
<p>And then all the little boys and girls went to bed, except for this one who has to stay up and finish stupid projects - but without which I wouldn&#8217;t have been up so late anyway, so maybe it was worth it <img src='http://lauren.digitalkiss.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I&#8217;ll leave you with some of my personal favourite Tweets from the #housewars now:</p>
<p><strong>glasgirl</strong>: @slythphoenix Um, yeah XD I&#8217;m not sure there is such a thing as a merciful bee. But if they sting you THEY DIE. Just like &#8216;puffs! #housewarsabout 4 hours ago from web </p>
<p><strong>slytherykin</strong>: The only problem is that Granger girl but I am pretty sure she we can take her out by kidnapping Ron or something #housewarsabout 18 hours ago from web </p>
<p><strong>glasgirl</strong>: @jesuischele Hahaha yes. We&#8217;ll keep our side&#8217;s morale up with ambiguous comments and gratuitous nudity, whut?</p>
<p><strong>sallyslytherin</strong>: @glasgirl Gratuitous nudity?? I LOVE THIS WAR! SO MUCH! #housewarsabout 3 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to glasgirl</p>
<p><strong>jesuischele</strong>: @glasgirl LOL, doesn&#8217;t matters if we&#8217;re distracted, we&#8217;re winning, but just in case *Puts on a Slytherclaw cheerleader outfit* Go us go! about 3 hours ago from twhirl in reply to glasgirl</p>
<p><strong>glasgirl</strong>: @omfgitsjace @gryffindorgal87 You&#8217;re right, we&#8217;re done. So I&#8217;ll just take @jesuischele and her cheerleader outfit into this corner here&#8230;about 3 hours ago from web </p>
<p>And why have I chosen to compile this little history?<br />
1) because half the time most of the people didn&#8217;t have a clue what the heck was going on XD and<br />
2) <strong>gryffindorgal87</strong>: @glasgirl I dub thee the offical #housewars historian. Lol!about 2 hours ago from txt </p>
<p>So there you go. History has been made!!</p>
<p>Now go join the Facebook group and pick your side!!! <img src='http://lauren.digitalkiss.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':-P' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>ETA: Sallyslytherin pointed out that the whole thing was *actually* sparked by Bob Dylan&#8217;s moustache, which was something I had totally forgotten and made me LOL. So here it is:</p>
<p><strong>omfgitsjace</strong>: Bob Dylan has a creepy mustache.about 19 hours ago from web<br />
<strong>sallyslytherin</strong>: @OMFGItsJace Your Mom has a creepy mustache. BUUUUUUURN!about 19 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to OMFGItsJace<br />
<strong>omfgitsjace</strong>: @sallyslytherin thats just mean and uncalled for ma&#8217;amabout 19 hours ago from web in reply to sallyslytherin<br />
<strong>sallyslytherin</strong>: @OMFGItsJace Slytherin > Ravenclawabout 19 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to OMFGItsJace<br />
<strong>jesuischele</strong>: @sallyslytherin I second the Slytherin > Ravenclaw. =Pabout 19 hours ago from twhirl in reply to sallyslytherin<br />
<strong>glasgirl</strong>: @sallyslytherin @jesuischele Uh-uh. I respectfully disagree. RAvENCLAW PWNS ALL. Right, @OMFGItsJace ?about 19 hours ago from web<br />
<strong>omfgitsjace</strong>: http://twitpic.com/4kt68 - Love this guy. But honestly. Creepy &#8217;stache.about 19 hours ago from TwitPic<br />
<strong>sallyslytherin</strong>: @OMFGItsJace O ya, you&#8217;re right that is creepy. It&#8217;s like movie Remus Lupin with some extra scary added inabout 19 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to OMFGItsJace<br />
<strong>jesuischele</strong>: @OMFGItsJace Okay, Jace as a point there&#8230; it&#8217;s a creepy mustache indeed.about 19 hours ago from twhirl in reply to OMFGItsJace<br />
<strong>glasgirl</strong>: @omfgitsjace &#8230;he kind of reminds me of Jason Isaacs. Is it just sleep deprivation or is it something about his eyes there?about 19 hours ago from web<br />
<strong>sallyslytherin</strong>: @glasgirl @OMFGItsJace @sallyslytherin Everyone knows that a Slytherin can beat up a Ravenclaw in a fight, hands downabout 19 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to glasgirl<br />
<strong>omfgitsjace</strong>: @sallyslytherin Yeeeeaaaaaaah we all know THAT&#8217;s not trueabout 19 hours ago from web in reply to sallyslytherin<br />
<strong>glasgirl</strong>: *is now playing Creepy Mustache by Remus and the Lupins because&#8230;yeah* XDabout 19 hours ago from web<br />
<strong>glasgirl</strong>: @sallyslytherin NICE XD &#8230;and HEY! You only win because you CHEAT. XD You too, @jesuischeleabout 19 hours ago from web </p>
<p>&#8230;and then we all started talking about how we could actually get along and defeat the other houses. I can&#8217;t believe I forgot that part XD</p>
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		<title>My Latest Obsession</title>
		<link>http://lauren.digitalkiss.org/2009/04/my-latest-obsession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been really neglecting this blog, first of all because I had too much to do for my dissertation proposal, and then because - horror of horrors - Livejournal has gone and got me addicted to another new fandom. Bandom. And it&#8217;s worse XD

First, it was Harry Potter. I found Livejournal after FF.net, and it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been really neglecting this blog, first of all because I had too much to do for my dissertation proposal, and then because - horror of horrors - Livejournal has gone and got me addicted to another new fandom. Bandom. And it&#8217;s worse XD<br />
<br />
First, it was Harry Potter. I found Livejournal after FF.net, and it wasn&#8217;t a big deal. Then while reading HP fic about a year or so ago, I stumbled upon a community called &#8220;Ship Manifesto&#8221; where people write a &#8216;manifesto&#8217; all about how their favourite pairing in a specific fandom is really canon. With examples, and screenshots, and it&#8217;s AWESOME. So I read a few&#8230;some HP ones, a Degrassi one, and more that I can&#8217;t remember. Then I found a High School Musical one, and there were fanfics recommended and I got ADDICTED. Like, full-on addicted. I&#8217;ve got posters and postcards up in my room and they&#8217;re split more or less evenly between HP and HSM XD<br />
<br />
And last week, it happened again (although there was a false start). I was on Livejournal (Livejournal is going to be the DEATH of me) and I checked my favourite HSM fic community, and there was a link to this other community, and I clicked it and ended up reading a bunch of RPS - Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki. The stories were movies rewritten - like, Notting Hill, where Jensen&#8217;s the big star and Jared owns a pet store. And two Miss Congeniality rewrites that were simply hilarious. So I read that for a couple days and all was good. Then I went back on to the HSM community and that&#8217;s when it happened. There was a link to this other community, and I clicked it, and I&#8217;ve been reading it, and it&#8217;s RPS and it&#8217;s slightly worse because it&#8217;s not rewritings of movies, it&#8217;s just stories about them XD and it&#8217;s a billion times worse because while I can explain away my High School Musical obsession - hello, I&#8217;m a girl, I&#8217;m allowed to like girly musicals and funny Disney movies - this takes it into preteen, first-crush, almost-stalker territory. Because it&#8217;s the Jonas Brothers.<br />
<br />
Yes. I have developed an addiction to Jonas Brothers fanfiction. It&#8217;s horrific because I absolutely adore it, have memorized the pairing names, have favourite pairings and authors already, and have like 24 of the stories saved on my iPod so I can read them at will.<br />
<br />
I know that given my addictive personality I&#8217;m probably lucky that all my obsessions at the moment are so harmless, but you know this one is going to involve buying posters and memorabilia, and don&#8217;t I already have enough to buy, given that I&#8217;ve been eyeing up a Whirlwood wand, robes, a Ravenclaw tie&#8230;I do have HSM stuff that people sent me for Christmas/birthday though. Including, randomly, a pair of Troyella socks. XD<br />
<br />
Anyway. I&#8217;m probably going to write a whole ship list on my LJ now and encourage my f-list to do the same, and that&#8217;s kind of awesome and lame at the same time. But I thought you should have an explanation&#8230;and a heads-up. Because you know, when I get obsessed, I really get OBSESSED. And that always requires a warning XD</p>
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		<title>The Big Bang Theory, and Big Bags</title>
		<link>http://lauren.digitalkiss.org/2009/04/the-big-bang-theory-and-big-bags/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though I decided against doing BEDA, I still feel guilty for not having blogged today! (Yes, I still count this as Wednesday, since I haven&#8217;t been to sleep yet. I&#8217;m aware that it&#8217;s technically Thursday but whatever, I didn&#8217;t get up til 3pm. My sleep schedule is so whacked out right now).

So I love [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Even though I decided against doing BEDA, I still feel guilty for not having blogged today! (Yes, I still count this as Wednesday, since I haven&#8217;t been to sleep yet. I&#8217;m aware that it&#8217;s technically Thursday but whatever, I didn&#8217;t get up til 3pm. My sleep schedule is so whacked out right now).<br />
<br />
So I love The Big Bang Theory, I have the DVDs of season one and the whole lot on my iPod. But when it comes to season two, I have to admit I&#8217;m woefully lacking. I watched episodes 1 and 2 because they were in a double bill, MONTHS ago, and even only then because my friend Neil reminded me they were coming on. But since then, nothing. I got obsessed with Dollhouse for a while, I watched religiously every Sunday for the first few weeks, since it only aired on Fridays and I had to give people a chance to get it online. And I&#8217;ve seen all the How I Met Your Mother episodes up until s4e15/16, so I don&#8217;t feel too badly about that. The Naked Man was my favourite season 4 one. But The Big Bang Theory, I have been sadly neglecting.<br />
<br />
I decided to rewatch episode one tonight and go from there, so that&#8217;s what I did. Here&#8217;s what I remembered: There are a spectacular number of awesome quotes in BBT episodes. Being a geek, I wrote them down. Here they are XD:<br />
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Penny: Sheldon, may I ask you a question?<br />
Sheldon: I would prefer that you not, but I won&#8217;t go so far as to forbid it.<br />
Penny: &#8230;All right, I heard &#8216;yes&#8217;&#8230;<br />
<br />
Sheldon: You thought the opposite of &#8217;stupid loser&#8217; was &#8216;community college graduate&#8217;?<br />
<br />
Sheldon: When I try to deceive, I myself have more nervous tics than a Lyme Disease research facility!<br />
<br />
Sheldon: I couldn&#8217;t become Green Lantern unless I was chosen by the guardians of Oa, but given enough startup capital and adequate research facilities I <b>could</b> be Batman.<br />
Leonard: YOU could be Batman?<br />
Sheldon: Sure. <b>I&#8217;M BATMAN!</b> See?<br />
<br />
Leonard: Oh God, I AM the bad fish!!<br />
<br />
Sheldon: This mind does not forget!  **side note - anyone having a HIMYM flashback to The Pineapple Incident here? Because as soon as he said that, I LOLed, thinking of Ted. &#8216;This is a super brain! Mere alcohol cannot stop this brain!&#8217; XDDD**<br />
<br />
Wolowitz: That&#8217;s kind of an overreaction to a little harmless necrophilia.<br />
<br />
Leonard: That was fast.<br />
Sheldon: My pre-packed disaster evacuation bag. Recommended by the Department of Homeland Security. (beat)&#8230;And Sarah Connor.<br />

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<p>
Sorry this post was so unoriginal. I&#8217;m also breaking my rule, created a WHOLE THREE DAYS AGO, about not posting fandom-type stuff - other than journal-type accounts of fandom meetups and stuff - on this blog. I&#8217;m saving that stuff for my <a href="http://musicaldiscord.livejournal.com">fandom Livejournal</a>. Well, it&#8217;s not *totally* unrelated as I&#8217;m going to post a question here. So in future I&#8217;ll keep the UNRELATED quotes for LJ. How does that sound?&#8230;I&#8217;m essentially talking to myself here because nobody has commented since the first entry anyway (although a few people did say they liked my new theme, when I asked <img src='http://lauren.digitalkiss.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> It IS pretty).<br />
<br />
The Question: If you were going to pack a disaster evacuation bag, what would you put in it?<br />
<br />
My answer: You know what&#8217;s sad? I&#8217;d be tempted to buy another external hard drive, back all my crap up AGAIN, and then put it in the bag every night after backing everything up. Because if there was a disaster, either I&#8217;d be taking my hard drives with me, or I wouldn&#8217;t be leaving! (Wow, that sounds really melodramatic and unbearably geeky. Go me.) Other than that, the usual crap like clothes&#8230;warm socks&#8230;notepad and a few pens to record the disaster (the internal journalist is hard to keep down, it turns out, once trained)&#8230;my video camera, for the same reason&#8230;Money, obviously&#8230;some non-spoiling food like cereal bars&#8230;and like, stuff from my friends that has sentimental value.<br />
<br />
&#8230;Ok, it would be a very BIG bag.</p>
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		<title>L is for Loooooser!</title>
		<link>http://lauren.digitalkiss.org/2009/04/l-is-for-loooooser/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It is no secret that I&#8217;m a bit of a loser.

Oh come on, don&#8217;t go feigning surprise or anything. Most nights all I do is go online, the only time I ever go out anywhere is to the rare Harry Potter meetups/wizard rock shows (this is not anything to do with putting down HP fans, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is no secret that I&#8217;m a bit of a loser.<br />
<br />
Oh come on, don&#8217;t go feigning surprise or anything. Most nights all I do is go online, the only time I ever go out anywhere is to the rare Harry Potter meetups/wizard rock shows (this is not anything to do with putting down HP fans, naturally, I <3 you guys), and I'm currently not only in my third year of a BA degree in Journalism and Sociology, but I am currently (all right, not right this second, but lately and for the next week and a half) working on a dissertation proposal for next year which would see me interview Harry Potter fans in an attempt to explore the social connections and benefits we get from being in the fandom community.<br />
<br />
Today though, I believe two separate Twitter monologues can display my loser-ness far easier (and faster) than I can ever explain.<br />
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<blockquote><p>
Glasgirl: Facebook says my account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance, oh God, this is a nightmare!!! Thank the internet for Twitter!!<br />
&#8230;<br />
Glasgirl: OMFG YAY, Facebook has stopped PMSing and let me log in. It&#8217;s really pathetic how happy I am about this, isn&#8217;t it? D:<br />
<br />
***************Some Time Later***************<br />
Glasgirl: Is on www.envelope.co.uk having a total stationerygasm. Who surfs the web at 2am not for porn but for PADDED ENVELOPES?!?! *dies*<br />
&#8230;<br />
Glasgirl: Someone want to talk me out of buying six coloured envelopes (3 yellow, 2 metallic silver, one padded red) and a blue &#8216;hamper box&#8217;? D:<br />
Glasgirl: I should point out even with P&#038;P (and it&#8217;s funny to think of paying packaging for envelopes XD) it&#8217;s still only £3.85&#8230;<br />
&#8230;<br />
Glasgirl: &#8230;I need a hobby.
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<p>
PS. I didn&#8217;t buy them.</p>
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