Selenay's Ramblings

Inspired by Actual Documented Accounts... (9583 words) by Selenay
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hermione Granger/Luna Lovegood
Characters: Hermione Granger, Luna Lovegood, Minerva McGonagall
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - X-Files Fusion, Case Fic, Magic, Femslash, First Kiss

Summary: The sceptic and the believer. Science versus the unexplained. Hermione Granger is supposed to be proving that Luna Lovegood's strange cases have scientific, rational explanations, but their latest adventure may force her to change her mind...about more than just Luna's beliefs.

Inspired by this Tumblr gifst: a harry potter/x-files au

Note: My entry for femslashex this year

This entry is being typed very slowly and painfully due to the accident references in the title. It's called "Sel had an idiot moment". I was cooking myself some lunch and took the spring rolls out of the oven. They slid a bit when I put them down so I used my oven-mitted hand to push them back to be where they should me.

I completely forgot why I needed oven mitts, though, and rested the tips of my left fingers on the pan. Without oven-mitts. Um, ow. So I've got nice burns on the tips of three fingers on my left hand. So impressed with myself - not! They're surprisingly painful...

This morning I popped into town to sort out my mum's birthday and Mother's Day. I needed to do it today and usually I drive down because it's over three miles with a steep hill downwards at the end. Last night it occurred to me that it would be a good challenge to attempt to walk it. I've never done it before, but it's no further than the bookshop and back were last weekend. I could walk it and get the bus back.

Being fearful of the embarrassment of attempting and failing, I didn't actually tell anyone what I was planning when I left this morning. My car still being in the drive might have given me away but apparently nobody spotted it.

So I ate breakfast, popped some bits in my backpack, put on my walking trainers and grabbed my iPod. Oddly, it was the first mile and the last half mile that were the hardest. I guess at the start I was worried that I wouldn't manage it and at the end my hip complained about the downhill thing.

I did it, though.

I'm actually feeling quite pleased with myself for doing it because it was one of those milestones that I never thought I'd achieve. The next big thing will be to walk there and then walk part of the way back, but just doing this feels really good.

Usually I just walk with no accompaniment but this time I thought that it might be a good idea to have something to distract myself as I walked. So I put on the iPod and listed to a Pottercast (one of the ones with a JK Rowling interview from the end of last year, in fact, because I'm quite far behind) throughout the walk. It really helped to keep me distracted and the walk seemed to fly by, so that's definitely the technique next time!

The reason why I was cooking lunch on a Saturday is that we're going to the cinema tonight to see Juno. So by the end of today this will have been a terrific Saturday despite my minor burns!

( Possible minor spoilers for Deathly Hallows under here. Be prepared for others providing spoilers in comments )

Today is monumentally boring. I really want to be at home finishing a French assignment so that I don't have to do it at the weekend or even just reading fic. Instead I am bored :-(

And coming down with a serious case of meeting-itis.

Is it time to go home yet?

I don't have the words to talk about the Tour de France and Vino. Yet. I shall probably recover my ranting abilities later.

( Cut for spoilers )

Only two more days until I have a copy of book 7 in my sticky little paws!

For all my fellow Harry Potter fans, Leaky Cauldron has a sneak peak of the cover art for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows here. UK fans are probably going to be most interested in the UK cover :-) Looks pretty good and makes me even more impatient to get the book into my grubby little hands.

Also, how did I not know that the RSS of John Scalzi's blog was available at scalzifeed?

In addition, marthawells kindly alerted everyone on her friend's list to Lois McMaster Bujold's new MySpace feed at lmb_myspace so I am passing on the info to interested readers. I'm just not sure why they picked MySpace...

I now return to writing and attempting to learn some French, not necessarily in that order.

Harry is here!!! Not going to be checking my f-list until that's finished, just in case. I may also be picking and chosing my emails carefully, just as a warning. Beautiful book.

Also bought my own bow, finally, which is cause for much excitement and sqeeing. All in the same day! The bow is a KAP Evolution II, measuring 66 inches with a 22 pound draw weight. She has a blue handle and is utterly beautiful. Photography may follow soon :-)) I've gone for a draw weight that I can actually draw comfortably because the shop will allow me to swap limbs for free to a higher draw weight if I need to within the next six months. Very reassuring. I've also bought a warm-up band that I can use to excerise and build up some strength in my shoulders. Basically, it allows me to make the 'pulling a string' motion with appropriate resistance without having to set up the bow in my bedroom and risk hurting someone. If I use it every day, I should start building some muscles and get moved up to heavier limbs within the six months. Woo!

Thursday was also my best scoring round, ever. I pretty much doubled my usual score. I think it's because I haven't been scoring myself for the last few weeks so I've been able to concentrate on what I'm doing rather than worrying about bad shots. It's very satisfying to see that kind of improvement :-)

Well, I'm going to get some lunch, open Harry...and have the Tour on in the background because today is a big Pyreneean stage. Not that I'm a sports fan or anything...