Looking at the world from the bottom of a well

Which is to say, I spent the last four days doing that thing I do a few times a year where I get sucked into a Harry Potter mega-epic and can't do anything for a few days but read it. (This time it was aspenlight's A Year Like No Other and A Summer Like No Other--I have managed to close the tab without plunging into the third story, which has been a WIP since 2008, but that was still a million-plus words of fic in four days.)

So that's meant no writing for four days, or reading anything else, or watching anything, or, um... well, the less said about the state of my apartment the better...

AND it means that despite writing myself a note I once again missed my LJ-versary, but, guys as of Friday I'd been on LJ and in LJ-based fandom for NINE YEARS. Nine years!

I guess I am really for real not a noob anymore. *g*