I should soooo be in bed by now...

... but instead I'm here. To share a few quick blips:

• hds_beltane is still accepting sign-ups. This fest is where Volunteers got started last year, so it has a special place in my heart.
  
  
  
  
• Finally sent the latest chapter of Ember to Ember to beta!
  
  If anyone's holding their breaths for the update, though... please don't. It was in really rough shape when I sent it to scrtkpr. If she can get it back to me in less than two weeks, she's a saint. And a genius. 'Cause I know I'd kinda throw my hands up in the air and wail a bit if I got something like that to beta. ::sigh::
  
  
• hd_worldcup has started! And I'm deeply immersed in school, and cannot participate in my team's discussions yet. 'Sokay, though, I'll be done on Wednesday. I'm planning on taking whatever prompt nobody else wants anyway; they're all cool, and I love the challenge of writing something I totally would never think of writing in a million years.
  
  
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl is an incredibly awesome movie. I liked the two sequels too, but every time I see the first one I get floored by the awesome all over again. It's got so many just dead-on perfect scenes. And of course, Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom. And Keira Knightley, who, although she is not on my admittedly rather short list of "If I went that way, I'd go her way," is still very very cool :)
  
  
• You know the part in Order of the Phoenix where Hermione explains Cho's feelings to Harry and Ron, and Ron says, "One person couldn't feel all of that!" and Hermione says, "Just because you have the emotional depth of a teaspoon!" You know that part?
  
  Well, when you watch the French dubbed version (as I did, with my kids - hey, it was for home schooling, they do French) she says, "C'est parce-que toi, t'as la capacité d'émotion d'un fromage!"
  
  "Because you have the same emotional capacity as cheese!"

And now, I'm off to bed.