Maine #3, and Massachusetts

[jlh]

Well, the weekend is near its end. C____ came to the house yesterday and had lunch with my parents and me. Dad got him to take piles of old LPs and 78s that he had bought at an auction. Then hung out in Portland for a while before going down to Boston.

Always very odd to be back in Cambridge. Ghosts. We ate dinner across the street from my old college house--I could see the summer school kids hanging out in the common room.

Today, back to NYC.

Sorry to see about the CR's at FAP; the end of an era. I definitely think it's the right thing to do, maybe should have been done a while ago though I can understand trying to make it work on FAP before giving it up. I'm sure we'd all rather preserve the HP and writing-focused boards before everything else. With all those people around, something had to give.

Comments

[raymarie.livejournal.com]

::places a flower on the CR::

It's for the best. I'm rather sick of it now. Too many people, not fun anymore. You're completely right, something had to give. So RIP, CR. God bless, and good luck.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Are you not going over to the Y!Group?

I should def be online tomorrow night; congrats on being up by the way? FA is not loading very quickly for me at the moment, so I'll try to get up your review tomorrow from (dull) work.

--jen

[rabican.livejournal.com]

If I might ask, what were the CRs?

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Common Rooms. In the forums for each house, FAP had Common Room threads. That's where I met a lot of the people on my friend list, like Ray and Lily and Syddle and Isis, and Ely and Femme and Luna (though really, I met Femme in the slash forum). There wasn't really a topic, it was more of a very loose RPG. We would talk about studying and other houses, and what we were doing/had done in Hogsmeade, and a lot about boys. It was fun, so much so that in the Gryffindor CR we ended up doing a round robin fic about it. But, with all the people around, they rather took over FA. They've been moving everything that is sort of OT to Y!Groups, like all the Scribbulus threads. As you can see, most of us who were in the CR have moved onto LJ anyway, so I don't feel like I've lost that much personally. But it really is the end of an era, as Ely said in her post in FAP.

--Jen

[angeldemaria.livejournal.com]

Welcome back to the city, sweetie.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Thank you, lovie! On the train back, I read an article in Vanity Fair about the wife of that doppelganger of yours, and thought of you. I hope the weekend treated you well.

I was in the cab coming uptown from Penn Station (having my usual coming-home thought of "New York sucks, why do I live here/New York is fab, why do I ever leave?") when I saw, hanging over a building opposite the Port Authority Bus Station, a banner that was so coated with grime that what was once probably white was now not even grey, but nearly black. I mean, what are they thinking? Only in New York, indeed. Ew.

--jen

ps--that ballyharnon friend of yours is writing about her sex life again. Oh, to be young again . . . .
On second thought, nah. ^_~

[regardingmoony.livejournal.com]

Hi. I'm Ryan Phillipe's doppleganger's wife.

And at least Bally has a sex life, unlike poor ickle me.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Hi. I'm Ryan Phillipe's doppleganger's wife.
Welcome! I hope you don't look like Reese Witherspoon; I don't think that sharp little chin works on a man, really.

And at least Bally has a sex life, unlike poor ickle me.
Betrothing yourself to someone who isn't fucking you strikes me as a little self-defeating. Have you read "Women Who Love Too Much"?

I don't think anyone would ever doubt that Bally has a sex life, whether she posts about it or not.

[regardingmoony.livejournal.com]

Betrothing yourself to someone who isn't fucking you strikes me as a little self-defeating.

That's exactly the problem. He is (http://www.angelfire.com/punk3/ballyharnon/potter/ff/youhavenotlived.html) fucking me.