Assorted bits of news...

[azurelunatic]

Bitchy Witchy Week is *still* trailing off. Grr. It wasn't a very heavy flow; in fact, it was barely staining the tampons each time for the entire week. Now I'm still getting pinkish goo and lumps. I know there's no possible pregnancy involved, as there was nothing even resembling sperm/semen near me for the past several months. Not worrisome, just... a little irritating.

shammash is back to his regular bouncy self, and his ear is still funny-looking, but no longer requires draining. It's lumpy and wrinkled, but it's healing in its own good time, and isn't abscessed.

Little Fayoumis starts school the 11th. Ghaa! Pants! And then we'll have to get all the usual equipment... I guess we can start with the Kleenex, because I know that's standard. His backpack's still good and still cool, and maybe I can find some Pokémon and/or racecar patches to sew on it for maximum coolness.

FatherSir sent Little Fayoumis an octopus. He's been waving it in people's faces. Garr.

Kilbridge is determined that the baby will come on schedule, and will not interrupt finals. Her doctor laughed.

It's been muggy and hazy around here. Thank you, fires. You can go ahead and stop already.

hlynna: I had to clean that up so much to even get him that cross. I just haven't been quite feeling like I'm in command there. I guess that's because I befriend the grouches... I have a model for Snape. Well, sort of two. I just imagine Spock with Darkside's darkest side. The trouble is, while Darkside is perfectly Snapeish to other people, he warms up and smiles and glows around me.

Comments

[ruisseau.livejournal.com]

I think the problem was that you used him for exposition which FORCED him to speak AT LENGTH.

That's very OOC for Snape. At the same time, it was his...thing. So, I'm not quite sure, maybe if Dumbledore picked up some of the thread?

[azurelunatic]

He's potions-geeking. Maybe if someone made an inane comment, which he shushed?

Hm. I could expand it, and have all the Heads of House there... Eeep. Which requires research.

[azurelunatic]

Because we don't get to see him in his element so much, with his peers, we don't get to see if he does run off at the mouth about potions. But I agree that maybe Dumbledore should take over some of the... hm. And if there are nosy questions being asked, he can do more of the acerb, and sound like he's saying a lot less, rather than volunteering it.

[ruisseau.livejournal.com]

bingo!

[azurelunatic]

Right. So he says he thinks he knows what it is, and Madam Pomfrey gets curious, and he says that if it is what he thinks it is, it's his.

Pomfrey bursts out with the curiousity, then *Dumbledore* asks if she knows what Snape did after he left Hogwarts. Pomfrey guesses, Dumbledore shakes his head, and they look like they're going to make it a guessing game. Snape sneers, and cuts it short by rolling up his sleeve, and making that same explanation, but in context that way, it'll sound like a vast understatement, and either Pomfrey will be intimidated into silence, or hushed by Dumbledore before they can get into a sniping match.

[ruisseau.livejournal.com]

Much more like Snape and much less like he's being helpful. He does in fact sound like "don't you know *anything*" which is Snape-all-over. :)

[boojum.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it'll work for trailing-offness and it's not the right time of month for me to check, but lower abdominal massage and/or sharply clenching my lower abdominal muscles often give me a spurt of heavier flow some seconds later. I think it dislodges stuff.

(I also love pantiliners for those days when my body is ambivalent about menstruating, because unblooded tampons can be annoying to get out.)

[azurelunatic]

Imagine trailing-off level of flow for the full week.

Now imagine trailing off from *that*.

It's to the point where I don't need to wear anything between me and my underpants, as there's not enough to come out...