3 Sad, Sad Stories

[heartwrenching]

[ooc: Looks like Graham was experimenting with using part of a journal page as a day planner with... decidedly mixed results. No filters, so everyone can see his opinion of the upcoming match.]

Comments

[doctorkishitani]

The idea that practising Divination robs us of our free will is a very common misconception. It's more to do with interpretation than anything.

In any case, I like what you've done with your day planner.

[heartwrenching]

Aha, but what happens when your interpretations prove themselves correct time and time and time again?! What you get, Shinra, is free will getting bludgeoned over the head with the cold, unchanging, iron fist of unshakeable destiny!!

... which is sounding pretty great! Damn! I just made myself more interested in Divination!

Sadly, I don't think I have it in me to stick to this planner stuff. It was an idle experiment and frankly it is just terrible. Writing down plans sets them in stone, and that'll just send me into another terrible, terrible tangle with thoughts of predetermination! SO RESTRICTING!

[actuallyspeakslatin]

You're an ass, we're not boring.

[heartwrenching]

Well well well, you're certainly not polite, so - by process of elimination - Nerd Boring it is!

[actuallyspeakslatin]

Do you think the only interesting people are in Gryffindor and Slytherin?

[nunganunga_k_o]

Blimey, I'd hate to see how we were named for the match.

[heartwrenching]

As much as my compatriots might rant and rave about them, your garden variety (GARDEN SNAKE???) Slytherin is more interesting than your average Ravenclaw or - especially - Hufflepuff by an order of magnitude! On top of that, the family's got a long history with Slytherins, and as much as I don't care at all about some of their ways, I am by no means a traitor to the family!!

So! Rest assured, my only qualms with your team is how brutally brutally BRUTALLY you all beat down Gryffindor last match, and even then, EVEN THEN, there is some level of exquisite beauty in such a tragic, horrible defeat! It moves the heart, ripping it apart elegantly, the way an artist stabs at a block of marble with his painfully sharp chisel!!

[nunganunga_k_o]

Normally, I'd be glad we're more interesting than most other houses, BUT you called me a cheater to the whole school which makes you a twit of the first water and not really someone of sound judgment.

And you are quite joyous about this for someone rooting for the losing team.

[arachnoble]

Perhaps next time you feel the need to yell in your day planner, you shouldn't use your journal as a substitute.

[heartwrenching]

Ahhhh, but I don't have a day planner! The goal, if I'm remembering my own goals correctly (50-50 chance, let me be honest with myself here), was to see if I could use my journal as a planner... nooo, no no no, more than that, it was to see if I am capable of using a planner at all!

What d'you think? Is it a glorious and fantastic success?

[brothor]

I think you need a bigger piece of paper, Specter.

[heartwrenching]

I AGREE!

For a long time I've thought these journal are just not NEARLY adequate enough to hold all my thoughts! If my thoughts keep coming and coming and I need, absolutely positively NEED to get them written down as I am sometimes wont to do, I must face the terrible truth that page space is a limited resource! And then I am left, hopelessly and woefully bereft of space, with all these bottled-up thoughts bubbling and bubbling away! HOW DO YOU EVEN SOLVE THAT KINDA PROBLEM?!

Ohhh but then I'm blaming others, right? I'm not accepting my own role in this, am I? For in this instance, at least, I'm at fault for drawing out the parameters of my planner experiment. How self-defeating, what immense self-hatred, does this imply masochistic tendencies?!

[brothor]

Perhaps you should use a charm. Something to make the pages huuuuge!!

...Although that would be difficult to carry. Aha! Perhaps a charm that makes your font smaller? Not so small that you cannot read it, of course. That would not help!

Perhaps you could be more concise?

[Voice]

[catblog]

I think you underestimated the power of what Hufflepuffs can do.

[Voice]

[heartwrenching]

[Graham laughed, a loud and manic sound.]

Now that sounds like a challenge! See, challenges I like. Challenges I understand. Challenges are what jolt me awake from wherever I fell asleep and keep me going, going, going until my body gives up for another night of knocked-out slumber! If I even do have a night of knocked-out slumber at all! That doesn't always happen.

Buuuuut I'm a visual learner, y'know? I've gotta see things done right in front of me - of even better, do it myself - to believe in the reality of it. I can't just hear pretty little words with no back-up! So, the burden's on Hufflepuff to prove me wrong and be interesting. Nooooow, can you guys even do it?

[Voice]

[catblog]

[...what has Molly gotten herself into...]

Of course we can, I'm sure of it. You'll be surprised at what we can do when we work together!

[pomodoroo]

I lost all hope in using my planner for anything useful after second year, though I guess what you've done is one day to do shit!

[di_intraining]

I guess I'll have to make you eat your words on that day then, Spectre.