Is He Dead Jim? (very OT)

[Kaitlin]

I was just dropping in because I realized that I hadn't been here in 
a while, and I saw Randy's message, so I decided now would be a good 
time to say hi (since I'm not one of the 3 people who posted in 
August)...
I've been busy lately in my Alejandro Sanz club, preparing for the 
release of his new album ("No es lo mismo"--in stores 
tomorrow!)...just as things heated up around here with the arrival of 
OOP, people are very excited that our dear Alex is coming out with 
new material...
School starts tomorrow at 9:30, when my fellow teaching interns and I 
have a back-to-school planning meeting.  I'm the veteran of the 
group, so they're expecting me to share my "wisdom" with the newbies 
(even though I've only been doing this for a year!).  In case you 
were wondering, I'm a grad student majoring in communication and I 
teach the lab section of the undergraduate intro course.  Ahhh, 
college freshmen...a special brand of interesting, especially at the 
U of Hartford.
Hope everyone is doing well.  I will do my best to drop in more often 
this month, once the first-week-of-school business is out of the 
way.  
Aloha,
Kaitlin

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Randy" <estesrandy at y...> wrote:
> Has anyone noticed that 3 people account for over half of the 
> messages posted on this list in August?
> 
> Did everyone else dissapparate?
> 
> Perhaps we should pick a topic that someone would like to discuss?
> 
> Politics?
> Music?
> Other authors?
> 
> That jerk that keeps bothering me?
> That nice person I want to get to know?
> 
> Why does JKR have to kill off a great character and piss off half 
of 
> her fans?
> What I did on my summer vacation?
> 
> Who would I like to turn into a toad?
> Why does Neville have a toad?
> Is the toad an important character like Scabbers?
> Perhaps the toad is Voldemort's twin brother separated at Birth?
> 
> What brother?  You know the nicer looking one in the baby picture!
> Perhaps the toad is chewing all of that gum and leaving the 
wrappers!
> Perhaps Neville's twin brother was turned into the toad!
> Perhaps the toad carries the Mark of Voldemort and will save the 
day 
> at the end of the books!
> 
> Why did we ever let this guy on the list, anyway?
> 
> Is there anyone out there?
> 
> OKAY
> Let's say Harry,Ron, and Hermione walk into a bar....
> What do they say?
> "Ouch!"  
> Because it hurts when you walk into a bar! (and bonk your head or 
> something on the bar!)
> 
> Okay, Let's say the Toad leads the House Elfs in the next great Elf 
> rebellion and ...
> Hey!  Enough about the toad already!!!!
> Well, I was just trying to start some discussion....
> Well, this kind of inane drivel is what drove all these people away 
> in the first place!
> OK, I know when I'm not wanted.
> Fine.
> POOF!  Both of them dissapparate.