Slumber

Three things made me happy yesterday.

1. The Blackhawks
   
   Liek duh, you guys, but they won against Dallas Stars and swept the series for the first time in 41 seasons asjd;fajskdlf;asdfj THIS IS A SEASON FOR RECORD-BREAKING, OKAY? The Blackhawks already broke a franchise record for the longest-winning streak (it was 8 before, now it's 9), and then they broke a drought in the Anaheim arena and the Shark Tank where the San Jose Sharks (top of the division, they're tough to beat especially at home, even if you go overtime) play, and then against Florida who they haven't beaten since 2002 either, or something, and now Dallas Stars. HELL YEAH. My boys are awesome.
   
   And Patrick Kane apparently got a haircut and it got buzzed all the way when he wanted to "fade it up" so his golden curls are still there but WHO GETS HAIRCUTS WHEN THEY'RE ON ROADTRIPS? That makes no sense at all. NO SENSE.
   
   OH, and they scored 9 points total, right, 3 goals and 6 assists, and you know you've got a fucking awesome team when all those 9 points belong to 9 FUCKING DIFFERENT PEOPLE. CRYING. THIS ROSTER. I LOVE IT SO. NEVER GO AWAY.
   
   
   
2. My Mystery Cupid
   
   Yesterday I got my hpvalensmut fic!
   
   Forgetting Mandy Brocklehurst. When Terry is left at the altar, he's pushed into going on his honeymoon alone. Except, Lisa has other ideas and is Unspeakable-y sneaky. And Blaise is a closet romantic. (Blaise/Terry; mentions of Terry/Mandy and Mandy/Stephen)
   
   It's Blaise/Terry, you guys, I didn't expect that to be written at all! But it was cute, based off the initial premise of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but with a hotter, sexier Mila Kunis equivalent. :P And mmmmm. Terry. Terry.
   
   Give it a read, and then shower it with love and comments, okay? Okay! :D
   
   
3. Linds!
   
   So longleggedgit was over in the city for her JET interview (which she totally ROCKED and PWNED and OMG JAPAN) and since she was here we met up for dinner and drinks! Ahahaha, I've never been to Gino's East before but that was cool, deep dish pizza in Chicago (LINE I forgot to tell you maybe we should TRY that the crust isn't like too pastry-ish like it was in Lou Malnati's or Uno's?) ftw! Even though we could only really get one slice because ahahahaha, huge serving.
   
   Then we had $16.50 pitcher beers this is why I don't go out in the city on a regular basis (except to see hockey because that's special, duh) and then we went back to where Linds and her friends were staying to drink and watch the really bad sequel to Grease.
   
   (AHAHAHAHHAHA LINDS IT WAS MICHELLE PFEIFFER.)
   
   Then I went home and crawled to bed and slept til 7am, lol.

I browsed my flist and there were no Terminus updates, which makes me sad, but um. That's because the Hilton charges quite a lot for internet, which is the last thing you probably want to do in a conference for people who all got into the conference because of the internet.

I'm just saying.

So, like, I went to Wrock Chicago last Wednesday and listened to the headliners for the first time ever (except I've heard Draco and Harry before) with cmere (miss_charmed we have photos!), illuminations, jazzyjello, reallycorking, and I think longleggedit. Did not get to meet acidpop25 because of massive number-exchanging fail *facepalm* but Saturday will be better!

Wrock Highlights:

• Everyone jumping so much the floor was shaking, til we were told to stop because there's a conference downstairs and the people there are concerned.
  
• People actually following the rules, which, as reallycorking pointed out, says a lot about HP fans.
  
• The Remus Lupins saying "To hell with that, this is a rock concert, I want to see you guys ROCK!"
  
• cmere shouting "That is NOT Remus Lupin!" in response (because come on, Remus would follow the rules) JUST as the crowd quieted down, so that a couple of people (and maybe Remus Lupin) heard. ♥

Yesterday I met up with perculious and moonlitmercury, who I'm rooming with as well as Emily, Tai's cousin, aaaaaaaand we ran into slash_a_holic while checking in.

Registration Highlight:

• perculious singing and dancing "My Dad is Rich" for a 17-cassette audiobook of Order of the Phoenix.
  
• Finding out that I'm dueling.
  
  Yeah, no idea what that means either. I'm like. "What, really?" Apparently dueling means going up to your "mark" (kinda hard to do in a con of 1500) and saying their name in a conversational voice ("Hello, Rainsparkles25!") before waving your wand (Does my pen count for a wand?) and saying "Tumultosa!" (I'm sure I got that spell wrong; shit. :|)
  
• Having possibly the only two Terry Boot fangirls in the world in the same room. perculious and I are totally going to drive our roommates up the wall.
  
  Quoth Emily: "Who's Terry Boot?"
  
  Quoth moonlitmercury: We should totally have a Wizard Rock band. We can call it Terry's Boots. ♥♥♥
  
  Quoth moonlitmercury: You guys are terrible.
  perculious: Did you say we were terrible?
  slumber: Did you spell that with a y?
  
  But it is amazing. The password to our hotel-room-slash-dorm is like. Terry Boot is awesome.
  
• Finding really good programming.
  
• Finding Theodore Nott's rumored to have been cast in the movies already (LINE YOU TOTES HAVE TO SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HIM HE IS ALL KINDS OF PRETTY AWESOME. NGH. I'm gonna get the pic emailed to me so I can email it to you. :|)

The great big dinner was very Hogwarts-esque, which is cool except I felt like a first year, haha. Also, my roommates are all in the same house and I'm like. Not. Tragic.

Terminus staff keep telling us not to scare the Muggles away. I wonder why. :|