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This is basically how my week went. I have a lot to say so I split it all by topic and you can just click on the Series of Unfortunate Cuts below.

Or you can just skip all the cuts and take my word for it that my world was the same as usual this week - namely, lame. I bitched, I moaned, I ranted, I raved. I loved, I hated, I'm so ready for next week!

Ipod celebrated it's 5th anniversary this week and I am too. No, I didn't start my own company, but approx. 5 years ago is when I joined the fandom. I was just a wee lass of 11, almost 12. I discovered HarryPotter.com (which is almost recognizable from the old days now) and I've been hooked ever since. After that I went to hpfanfiction.net and had so much fun there. Alas, another great site bit the dust. I would love to back there now. Finally, I didn't discover this side of the fandom (CM, FA, SQ) until early 2003, though I didn't join until awhile later. I'm so glad, though.

So, here's to me: five wonderful years and still going strong (or too lazy to find another hobby)...

I love beta reading, I really do. Sometimes the trials of trying to get the write point across or just trying to polish a fic up is great. And other times...it's horrible. When I took up a story, I thought I had gotten a good story because it was clearly written and the plot seemed interesting. It's still clearely written (too clearly), but the plot is boring and the writing is less than mediocre. I like to take stories that I would read if I weren't the beta reader, and I usually suceed. But I haven't this time. I don't want to back out because that would be really lame. I've already done so many chapters and it would have been a waste of my time. And yet I have so many more bad chapters to edit. At least the sooner I get this story done, the sooner I can take more WIP's that I want to do instead of only oneshots, and limited ones at that. I just wanted to get that off my chest.

This morning, I'm calmly sitting in homeroom when this teacher comes in straight to me. I don't know him and I'm sure he doesn't know me, so of course I'm wondering what he wants. He asks me (very rudely, I might add) is I'm the one with the horrible mouth using foul language. I don't even know what he's talking about and why this random guy is accusing me of something I don't even know about. Not to mention that anyone who knows me knows that I rarely cuss. When I do happen to say something, they get all surpised and say, "I never heard you cuss before! It sounds so strange..." So yeah, I didn't appreciate that at all.