Lokifan

My laptop Sidney, after the virus of evil, had his charger go kaput. :( I was laptopless for DAYS, and have been using the downstairs computer. It is horribly slow, and also ‘the family computer’ so I felt weird about the whole thing. Plus the keyboard is awful and makes it really difficult to write.

I got Sidney back last night and I am SO HAPPY.

I’m also happy because I made it through the first round of the Harry/Draco LDWS! We’ll see if I make it through to round three – the competition is so fierce, OMG. Voting is open at the second round right now at slythindor100 -- GO FORTH AND VOTE.

The third thing I’m happy about? The family is away. (Huzzah!) They all went on a last-minute holiday to a Greek island because my dad was desperately in need of a break. I kinda yearn for sea and sand, but it was definitely the right decision to stay. No fighting with them, plus FREEEEEEEEEDOM.

Saw my cousin today. He’s sixteen and a bit of a twat; I’m kind of waiting for him to grow out of it. I love him though, and he’s always been the cousin I get on with the best. He’s a sweetheart even if he’s arrogant: he’s in London because he’s looking after his great-uncle, out of the goodness of his heart. His great-uncle is lazy and yells a lot: I know that last because he took great exception to a girl calling his flat for Ivan, even after I explained that I’m his cousin not a Hot Older Woman. I’m really impressed: my poor cousin has been very, very bored and missing his girlfriend but still Super Stoic. It’s a shame he felt the need to grow the massive beard – seriously WHY – but still.

Hopefully he’ll grow out of the Thatcherism.

I am more-or-less back online, in the sense that I'm using Middle Sister's computer and she is very tolerant. Oh, interwebs, did you miss me? You make everything OK. Even the fact that I have been struck down by a nasty cold. This cold is particularly nasty because I thought 'it's not that bad' and wrote 1000 words of enchanted_jae's przzie, before I read it back and realised it was gibberish. Dispiriting.

But everything is all right again, because Wendy Cope is going to be speaking at Warwick University soon. She is a great poet. A little while after that, Helen Dunmore. I've got to figure out a way to be there for at least one of them. Two hours in a car is as nothing to me.

I have been fighting not to unleash a shower of quotes - damn, one got past me! - from Wendy Cope in this post. Now I feel this is pointless. So I sign off saying thank you, slash and funny flist, for entertaining me while I feel unwell. Visiting relatives tomorrow I shall spend a blissful evening, lost/ in carnal thoughts of you.