If he were standing before you now, with a bottle of fine red wine, wearing medieval costume, reciting the love sonnets of Shakespeare. Barring that, though, this was pretty awesome.

Can I put in a request for him in a Victorian suit, reading sections from Dracula?

I think that anybody who's seen Truly Madly Deeply can attest, Rickman should be singing "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine" while strumming on a cello.

It's like an actor version of Clue: "Alan Rickman, in Tudor costume, with a mandolin."

Alan Rickman's Farewell Letter to J.K. Rowling.

I'd love it if it said "I just finished Deathly Hallows and read what you did with Snape. WTF?!"

I'd love it if it said "I just finished Deathly Hallows and read what you did with Snape. WTF?!"

"Do you know how hard it is to do a death scene with a CGI snake?!"

Oh how I love us.

We're very pretty.

And yet, probably still easier than learning English.

English is actually an easy language. It's not inflected and doesn't have grammatical gender. It just has some weird spellings left over from previous incarnations.

I took my sick self to the doctor, who was upset over the state of my lungs. I ended up with a nebulizer treatment, amoxicillin, codeine and prednisone. The prednisone means I'll careen about like a pinball for the next two weeks, but at least I'll have oxygen in my blood.

I took my sick self to the doctor, who was upset over the state of my lungs. I ended up with a nebulizer treatment, amoxicillin, codeine and prednisone. The prednisone means I'll careen about like a pinball for the next two weeks, but at least I'll have oxygen in my blood.

Good lord, woman! I'm glad you went to the doctor! Also, codeine is quite nice.

Relatedly, I have had 3 glasses of wine since 7:00 (Eastern time) because I am so stressed about the goddamn IUD. Seriously, healthcare for everyone -- including reproductive healthcare -- should NOT be something you have to wend through a labyrinth and fight a goddamn minotaur for.

And if I spelled all that correctly (and made appropriate allusions) then I need more wine. Fortunately, I have more.

Also, completely unrelatedly, I am 12 years older than the actor who plays Thor. I felt the need to look up his age and see if I could be his mother. (Wait, that is more related to the IUD than I thought.) So I could indeed biologically be his mother, but had that happened, it would be creepy and enormously bad.

So I feel better about the lusty wrong thoughts I have about his arms. And iliac crest.

In conclusion, I have hard-boiled eggs on the stove. (Not a euphemism.)

I was wheezing a startling wheeze that sounded like a tiny penny whistle tune. I kept thinking it had to be coming from somewhere else.