This morning I woke up to a dream where I was mourning the loss of someone important in my life and ended up talking to Remus Lupin about it, which led to watching the Perseid meteor shower (which is supposed to be quite a show this year), which led to some really hot frottage. (It's quite possible I was Tonks in this dream, and we were both mourning Sirius.) And yet, in the middle of the dream, I'm thinking, "No, don't do this, you're not Sirius!" so maybe I do finally have an OTP. (Except not, because I'm pretty fond of the idea of Tonks/Lupin, if not always the execution.) Anyway, yes, that was a fun dream, except for the whole being in mourning at the beginning and the fact that my alarm woke me at the end when, somehow, Sirius walked in. Damn alarm.

So then I went to work my last Saturday shift, and then came home and packed for hours. Yeah, I leave here a week from yesterday. I am not yet ready, though I am making good progress. I have two more days of work, two stories to finish and post, and packing to do before my going away party Wednesday night. Thursday morning is already scheduled as hangover morning. The theme of my party is Make Carla Your Favorite Alcoholic Drink.

(If any of you will be in the area and want to attend, let me know and I'll send you an email with details.)

Friday night I plan to spend in a hotel, and Tuesday through Friday of the next week the school is putting me up in a hotel during early orientation, so I might have some internet access, but I don't know how much. Then I'll be in the new apartment, and I likely won't have any there for awhile. Plus I think I'll be quite busy with school, it being a program different from anything I've done and a good school, on top of that, so I'll be scarce here. I'll likely read more than I comment or post, but I will read when I can, and I'll miss you guys tons.

(Since there's all this movement, I'll repeat I'm escritoireazul at greatestjournal and insanejournal, and will be at journalfen if that's where everyone goes and I find someone to hook me up with an account. I've been trying to add people at those places as they've posted their names, but my internet time is dropping soon, as I've said.)

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While thinking about The Baby-Sitters Club books, I was struck with this thought. It's always such a big deal that Mary Anne has two best friends, and the tension between Kristy and Dawn (the two best friends in question) comes up throughout the series. Which is one of the more believable things to me, actually; Kristy is the One in Charge, the One in Control, of course she'd hate sharing her best friend. However, I'm not sure why the idea of two best friends was supposed to be so shocking, especially when you consider the following.

Members of the BSC with two best friends:

Mary Anne (Kristy and Dawn)
Dawn (Mary Anne and Sunny)
Stacey (Claudia and Laine -- though, eventually she ends the friendship with Laine, and later still she and Claudia have that big fight and their friendship is never the same, either)
Jessi (Mallory and her cousin whose name I can't remember and all my books are packed Keisha?)

Members of the BSC with one best friend:

Kristy (Mary Anne)
Claudia (Stacey)
Mallory (Jessi)

Members of the BSC with no best friends:

Abby

And yet the two best friends thing is so weird when Mary Anne does it?

(Okay, technically I'm leaving out Logan and Shannon here, but they're associate members! Everyone knows they don't count!)

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I'm working on my femgen story, and I'm really wishing my books weren't packed. I don't remember the end of one of Claire's plotlines. (I'm writing Making Out fic, which would thrill the girl, except she's never around anymore.)

However, I'm enjoying the story.