I know the sparkly vampires are in my future. I'm sure I'm going to get a "you've never read them!!! but they are so wonderful!" from someone.

I have read excerpts but that was enough. I'll struggle through. Vampires don't have souls that makes them evil, not sparkle. (Although this does bring me to the fact I was always disappointed "spike has a soul" didn't lean more to "Spike has free will and now he kills things because he likes it.") I'm really excited about it and I wish I could get the syllabus before hand so I can read and watch everything.

There's also a class on called " The Power of Food in Literature, Culture & Film" there's also class on Science Fiction. UVM has one as well on Sci Fi and Fantasy and another on American English Dialects (with an emphasis on Vermont of course).

I'm really abetting excited about going back to school. I'm going to try and see if I there's some way I can get a formal evaluation for learning disabilities because I'm pretty sure I have some issues besides ADD. When I was back in Tally the idea of going to the community college was just another reminder of my multiple failed attempts. And I did not want to go to FSU -- way way too big. But Vermont has me all excited and I feel like I'm getting a whole new chance at things.

I just ordered a book called "The Human Skull: a cultural history". I'm quite looking forward to it. Considering I have five plastic/resin skulls within eyeshot, it's the book for me.

Jilli! A package of vampire books and other sundries is (finally) on its way to you. You should be getting it soon.

I must ask - is the course given at night?

Suh-nerk.

The Jane Espenson-edited collection of essays about Dollhouse is on sale for the Kindle at 99 cents.

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Found another HP plot hole. In HPVII, Deathly Hallows, Harry takes polyjuice potion so he can attend Bill & Fleur's wedding without being recognized.

Except we have already established (in this same book, in fact) that polyjuice potion only lasts an hour. And there's no mention of him taking any more during the course of the post-wedding party before Kingsley's patronus arrives.

Aww, thank you, smonster!

Kim Newman just confirmed me as a friend on FB, and I ordered my new edition of Anno Dracula last night.

I think the polyjuice potion lasts more than an hour, and duration seems to vary based on the person's size since all the HP decoys de-Harry at different times even though they drink in rapid sucession. Also inside the ministry they don't know exactly how long they have before it runs out.

In ASoIaF news, _Feast for Crows_ is narrated by a different reader than the first 3 books! And i don't like him! And he pronounces names differently! It's really bugging me, i might have to just read the hard copy instead of listening to the cds.

eta: after a little research, i can forgive the first actor (Roy Dotrice) for not doing the 4th book - apparently he was cast as Pycelle in the tv series and had to bow out due to med reasons. And if you can't film a relatively small part, how on earth could you narrate a tome that large. And he played Wesley's father on Angel. I totally don't recall ever meeting Wesley's parents. But still no love for new actor not researching how to pronounce "Viserys". No cookie for him.

I don't think we did - but there was a Wesley-Father bot in (I believe) the final season of Angel.

I finished PoA, and I am still so miffed that the movie cut out the explanation of the Marauder's Map. I mean, what the hell. Does the movie even explain why Harry's Patronus is a stag?

My recollections of the movies, having shown them to a friend who never read the books, is that they explain very little. They assume you've read the books.