Random Baaaaabblings

Because it's just too perfect: Like Any Other Day, by ashestodustdusttoashes.

I need someone to skim through TSFE and find the place where I referred to Minerva trying to find someone other than Harry for the DADA job and having trouble doing so. That bit is inconsistent with The Day After Victory and needs to be fixed before I forget...

Irish Gaelic is odd, and not just because of all of those accents that I can never figure out how to insert...

From what I can deduce, in Irish Gaelic:
Four is caethair
Fourth is caethru
Five is cuig
Fifth is cuigiu
Six is se
Sixth is seu
Twenty is fiche
Twentieth is fichiu
So if fifty is caoga, that would make fiftieth caogau?

If anyone reading this knows an Irish Gaelic speaker who could help, I'd really appreciate any help I can get...

I'm not playing bridge tonight, in part because the latest addition to the crowd is a dead ringer for a young Severus Snape.

So, I've been playing Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn off-and-on since we got our Wii. And I'd kinda wondered why Queen Elincia is single. And then I got Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, the prequel to Radiant Dawn, and wondered why Elincia hadn't married Ike. And then I saw the conversation at the end between Ike and Soren and now I understand: Ike/Soren and Elincia/Lucia... There must be fanfic somewhere...

In a (possibly misguided) effort to compartmentalize, I'm shifting all my IRL friends to facebook. If you know me IRL, look me up there. This journal will be strictly fannish.

A friend posted some thoughts about the ways in which we're taught to question authority (or not), another acquaintance posted about someone claiming to challenge the status quo by repeating (generally nasty) comments that have been made by other people since the dawn of time, and I was thinking about classroom management. All of which brings me to this thought: before you question authority, be sure that your question hasn't been answered already and that your authority actually has the power to do something about the situation.

However, AER's management says it hasn't felt a need to boost giving in recent years. "I don't necessarily think the need is any different than it was four or five years ago," says Spiegel.

Because it's not like there's a financial crisis going on that might be affecting military families, and there're certainly no families with injured ex-soldiers who might need financial help, and we all know that scholarships are a dime a dozen just right now... Oh, wait, you mean that's not true? WTF are they waiting on giving out that money for?

A Texas teacher has been suspended for "being too liberal and an atheist". Funny how fundamentalists are extremely upset at the mere possibility that someone might not hire an unqualified do-nothing for a tenured professorship at a major university (yes, I'm looking at Expelled) but think nothing of dismissing a competent, well-respected teacher in a small school for not being biased in their direction.

The people who made bad decisions for the banks which got bailed out, still got huge perks and bonuses.

The total amount given to nearly 600 executives would cover bailout costs for many of the 116 banks that have so far accepted tax dollars to boost their bottom lines.