okay, it's obviously beginning

People who want to talk about spoilers for HP7:  obviously I would never deny your right to do so.  However, may I ask that you either a) reveal nothing, and I mean nothing, outside of what will naturally be a non-revealing LJ-cut, or b) let me know now that you might be dangerous, so I can find a way to put you on some sort of filter and not get inadvertently spoiled like I did last time?

I know some of you hunt spoilers and others of you think avoiding them is stupid.  But thanks for humoring me and my pathological need to know as little as possible.  :-)

All I really do want to know, actually, is, do we know a release date?

lame duckery continues

Gave a speech tonight at Going Down Dinner (yes, that is in fact really what it's called; yes, my speech made a joke -- obliquely -- of it).  Everyone was very complimentary about it; the Master liked it a lot (one can tell the difference between positive reactions comme il faut and positive reactions that are genuinely enthusiastic), and the Development Exec specifically said she thought it was better than Queen P's speech last year (from which I cribbed heavily [g]).  This was my second-last official act as student president, but the last will be going to Executive Committee tomorrow, at which I predict I will contribute nothing, and then someone will point out that it's my last meeting, and the committee's thanks to me will be entered in the record, and I'll thank them, and then I'll leave.  And that will be that!  I'll go buy some packing tape, at that point.

I'll still be president until 23:59 on Friday, but there won't be anything else presidential I'll have to do.  Hallefreakinlujah.