Harry Potter and the License of Driving

(Safe post; no spoilers)

So, what do you get when you spend a weekend (well, 4 days, since I also took Friday and Monday nights) re-reading Harry Potter 1-6? Well, you get so much Potter in your head that you end up thinking about writing fic, even if you've never done it before.

And what do you get when you cross Potter fic with a quest to renew a driver's license? Why, you get my column today, which I highly recommend.

Home sweet home

Well, I'm back from NY.

Wednesday I worked a 10-hour day, but I did get to have a delicious dinner with kimberkit and entropicangel, who has lost his long golden tresses (and thus super-strength). Then I stayed at the Williams Club, whose motto is: "Summus maxima infernum turgesco, es numquam scio non quatrum leaguarum est". (or in English, "We're so damn stuffy, you'd never know we're not in the Ivy League.")

Thursday was the retreat, at which I was mandated to be present by my boss, though today a co-worker pointed out that neither my boss or another local office head showed up. Not that it mattered. 5 hours of eating and watching other people drink a lot, and then a 4 hour bus ride home which while unpleasant for me, seemed even more unpleasant for the people who drank a lot. I was just glad to get home, and had enough time to read Potter 7 before going to bed.

Today, thankfully, is soon to be over, and then I can hopefully do something productive over the weekend. Ye gods, I don't believe it's almost August. Man, I spent too long on this week's column. But sometimes you just get a wacky idea and want to run with it, y'know?