Whizzball

It's ten o'clock and I have nothing to do until one fifteen. Why did I get up this morning? I don't know. Also, I was late. Life is imitiating art, as I had lost my glasses, and to qutote glitter_james, to whom the same thing has happened, the world is "one big fuzzy blob." Only, my glasses turned up under the bed. James's glasses have been stolen by those nasty Slytherins, Sirius is trying out a new Muggle drink called "Cow Hula" that involves Honeydukes chocolate dissolved into Firewhiskey, and my darling Moony wants to kill himself following an encounter with McGonagall and Careers Advice. Life is complex for them all.

Real life is less so. Two and a half days of school left until Easter, and I'm not really doing anything this week beyond tution, work and Patrick. And playing Whizzball. Damn you, purplerainbow. I'm addicted.

And that's enough. I'm hungry and I'm going to get some chocolate.

Name meme

Meme, because it's fun and I hadn't updated today.

My journal is called _____ because _____.
"A stately raven from the saintly days of yore." This is because, surprise surprise, there is an obscure, hardly-well-known-at-all poem called The Raven by an equally obscure poet and writer named Edgar Allan Poe. I just like the lyrical quality of the line, mostly. It mentions ravens and it's pretty.

My subtitle is _____ because _____.
"where the falling angel meets the rising ape." This is a quote from Hogfather (Terry Pratchett, Discworld) and I simply love it. It's such a poetic way of stating the dichotomy of human beings - so high-minded, moral, just, far-removed-from-the-animal-kingdom, and yet slaves to food, sleep and sex, just like everyone else. I could say it's my subtitle because my journal is a combination of high literary aspirations and food, sleep and sex, but in truth I just like the quote.


My friends page is called _____ because _____.
"Necrotelecomnicom." Another reference to Discworld (and Good Omens) but really a rather morbid joke. Necrotelecomnicom means, more or less, "The phone book of the dead," and as I use my friends page to keep track of most of my friends, the title just seemed weirdly amusing.

My username is ____ because _____
loneraven is a combination of Raven, my pen-name and nickname and general cool(er) name, and the concept of a lone wolf, which is what I have been known to call my single defining characteristic. The resulting username struck me as fairly pretty and easy to say/spell, so it stuck. I use it most places on the net, nowadays, although I have been known to use "single crow" instead.

My journal name is ____ because _____.
Raven. Because I like it.