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.

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[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