Catherine came back yesterday after several days at home to get over the flu. She brought with her both sisters and her mom who spent the evening cleaning her room. I couldn't believe that. They even did her laundry. In any case, the best result of that was that they brought an old vacuum cleaner we get to keep--a real vacuum! It's much superior to the little dustbusters we've been using so far, which not only take forever to clean a room with, but have latex-rubber filters that gave me a bad reaction the first time I found that out. So now I can vacuum my room much easier. Which is good because I track in an amazing amount of grass.

Classes are same old, same old. I've been BS-ing my way so well in my humanities class that while I understand very little of what we're actually talking about (once, we read a bit of an article on changing "disease concepts" and the teacher started a debate on how does changing ideas of disease change what the disease is, and you could hear the gears cranking in all the engineers' heads going "Why...does...it...matter?!") I've done very well, grade-wise.

I realized today that the Harry Potter movie coming out next fall, the Goblet of Fire, can't have a happy end. In the first three books, there is a moderately happy ending, mostly that Harry survived the major adventure that always occurs after the end of exams and the return train trip. But this one ends with kidnapping, torture, death, and the evil guy reborn. I wonder how the movie people are going to handle that. It's a kid movie, and as proven by the previous (pretty bad) endings to Harry Potter movies the directors like a focused, determinately happy ending, whether or not it makes sense or fits with the story. So I wonder what they'll do.

I finally found poppy seeds at Publix when we went Saturday night (I'm currently avoiding Kroger due to a fiasco with their hamburger). So yesterday I made my lemon poppy seed muffins I developed the recipe for over break. They weren't as moist as the ones before, but still very tasty. And now I have something other than oatmeal to eat for breakfast. Did you know if you microwave oatmeal it expands so much it glubbs out of the bowl? It's an interesting phenomenon.