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’cause if I did, I couldn’t be having a Harry Potter themed sleepover this weekend.

Yeah, that’s right. I’m almost 24 years old and I am totally having a Harry Potter themed weekend. Jaime is coming up to my corner of MA from RI Saturday morning and then the geekiness will commence.

She’s going to be making and posting a vlog about the weekend, and hopefully under her guidance I’ll post my first vlog, too.

I should warn you though, things might get pretty intense. You see, Jaime is a Gryffindor girl at heart, and I’m definitely more of a Slytherin. I can’t help it, I’m just devious and ambitious like that. Plus, I’m kind of a chickenshit, which doesn’t really fly with that “brave and daring” bit.

Anyway, Quidditch-related brawls aside (ha), on the agenda we have: watching all 6 currently released HP movies in a row, making butterbeer, and baking brownies and then cleverly diguising them as Cauldron Cakes.

I know it’s completely nerdy and more than a little childish, and I also DON’T GIVE A HIPPOGRIFF’S ASS, because I love Harry Potter and I’m not ashamed. Kiss my green-and-silver clad ass if you have a problem with it!

Oh, and we will also be enjoying the fine musical talents of Harry and the Potters and Draco and the Malfoys \m/

Hello, all. I realize it’s been awhile since I updated this blog, but trust me nothing happened that was worht blogging about unless you want to read me bitching about customers at work Library patrons, whatever. They were just annoying though, they weren’t really funny, so it’s pretty dry stuff.

Anyway, something interesting happened to me this morning. I put a water bottle in the freezer to make it cold faster, and I forgot about it for a few hours. Imagine my surprise when I opened the freezer, and the water was still completely liquid, despite having been in the freezer for over three hours. So, I took the bottle, put it down on the counter and fixed myself a bowl of cereal (Honey Bunches of Oats, in case you were wondering). I went to pick up my water bottle and WHOA. It was frozen solid.

Thanks to wikipedia, I now know what happened to my water! The temperature in my freezer is lower than the freezing point of water, but no one had opened the freezer since I had put the water bottle in, meaning that the water hadn’t been disturbed at all. Apparently, in order for ice crystals to form, there has to be some movement or disturbance in the water to create a nucleus for the ice crystals to form around. In essence, I supercooled my water bottle, by bringing it below its freezing point without allowing ice crystals to form. When I took the bottle out of the freezer and plunked it down on the counter, the water rippled, and ice crystals fomed instantly.

And that is my bit of nerdiness for today I thought it was wicked cool.