Eliza Dushku looking very pleased, with her boyfriend, some baseball guy.

Nice...

Natter is dying very, very slowly.

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Hey, Nilly!

SA and I called it a night and are now in our respective beds. Even the funny of tv was not enough to keep us awake. We anticipate new thread in the morning. Coffee is preplanned...

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t Waves at Cass (say hi to SA for me, OK? Probably only in the morning, but still)

Natter is dying very, very slowly.

I wonder if I'll be here in front of a computer when it's over. I have to go early today to do lots of grading for tomorrow. Oh, and hopefully to finally get my HP7 copy. I wish I had to grade that instead, but I don't think any of my students is Rowling in disguise. Unless she is really good with Hebrew, and managed to learn physics while writing all those books. And in that case, why doesn't she translate her own books into Hebrew herself?

[Edit: oh, and in our let's-whine-some of the day, I still don't have shoes for my sister's wedding. Which is this Friday. And I've looked everywhere I can think of.]

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but I don't think any of my students is Rowling in disguise. Unless she is really good with Hebrew, and managed to learn physics while writing all those books.

I am thinking that this is a lovely and good idea. Physics is good to know, you know...

I shall greet the SA in the morning. We set up coffee tonight so the first one up can hit the machine and then hit the other. I am not really placing bets. Except she's been on the east coast so I expect to have a pillow throw at my head sometime. But we were both stupid tired earlier.

How are you doing, darling Nilly?

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Physics is good to know, you know...

Especially since some of the things physics does is pretty much magic, before you understand how they work.

As for me, yesterday was a fast ("9 of Av"), a day of mourning over the destruction of the temple (almost 2000 years ago). So today I'm still kinda head-ache-y and fuzzy and not much unlike a zombie who instead of saying "braaaaains" says "waaaater". But I hope that in a few more liters I will be OK (including a mental picture of myself being watered, as in, in a plant-pot, with my hands held up high like branches and leaves and my mouth wide open trying to catch the drops).

Oh, and my sister is getting married on Friday! I'm so excited, yet still lack shoes.

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Especially since some of the things physics does is pretty much magic, before you understand how they work.

I don't know, even after the explanations, sometimes I think it is kinda magic.

Oh, I wish you hydration and am wishing your sister every happiness.

I think my plants do the "hydration" thing sometimes when I get really forgetful. I should remember to take care of them better than I do...

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sometimes I think it is kinda magic

But it is! Just a different kind of magic, no?

Thanks for the wishes for my sister! Her soon-to-be-DH is a sweetie, so I think we're in good hands.

And I'm working towards the hydration thing! One sip at a time (at the end of fasts I have to deliberately stop myself from consuming a few liters at once. It takes practice, but I think I got it, in the last few years. Of course, Yom-Kippur-before-last, when my younger brother saw me drink the fist glass of water after the fast, he was all like "OK, so now I know how a junkie looks when he gets his drugs", but still).

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Hydration is good, now that I'm spending so much time at home I'm trying to remember it more -- at work, I'd stretch my legs by walking to the water coolerpurifier every time my bottle went dry. Here, it's not quite the same.

Hippo Birdies to VW!

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Theo! How is the job search going?

now that I'm spending so much time at home I'm trying to remember it more

In the university, I have a 2-liters bottle sitting next to me, so that I only need to fill it up once or twice a day. I always have a 1-liter bottle in my backpack. At home, there are always several bottles (filled and re-filled with tap water, of course, because I couldn't possibly afford buying this amount of bottled water on a daily basis).

When I bought a small purse, for going out and stuff, I made sure that I could put a 1/2-liter bottle inside, just in case. So that bag has a bottle of its own, too.

Why, yes, I do have a drinking problem.

[Edit: and now I've learned that I won't get my HP7 before yesterday, and nothing certain about that, too. No way am I going to finish it before the wedding, and seeing as at least half of the guest don't mind spoilers or actually seek them, and at least three siblings of mine, the bride included, are already reading the book, I'll probably have to spend half the day sticking my fingers into my ears and going "la-la-la-I-can't-hear-you". Oh, well.]

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I'll probably have to spend half the day sticking my fingers into my ears and going "la-la-la-I-can't-hear-you".

My sister was telling me that she ended up doing this yesterday at work when someone shouted across the office, "Hey, does Harry die in this book?"

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