  I'm not sure if i metnioned this, but Paul's House, the house that freaks me out, has burnt to a crisp. This happened about a month ago. Evidently, Crazy Uncle Paul offered Sanctuary to a female aquaintence of his. She left, the house promptly burnt. My mother suggested sabotage involving insurance or some such, but Paul's place, or as my Dad called it, The House of the Heirs, was a big nasty dump, and consequently, wouldn't be worth the gas to light it up. I AM STILL SICK. Am I right in saying I'm always sick? In spite of the heroic amounts of echinaeca I imbibe when my throat gets scratchy, the vitiman C I've been eating ever since, and the liquid, oh, the liquid, I've been drinking to stave off dehydration.
In other news, the Vatican has offically said that Harry Potter is A-ok by them. Read all about it here: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=493&ncid=762&e=6&u=/ap/20030203/ap_en_mo/vatican_harry_potter It is also interesting to note that all her negative spiritual press has been limited to North America. Also, rumors of her books insipring young minds to court the occult can be traced back to two SATIRE websites. The Onion web site published an article where thay claimed to interview children wanting to grow up and become witches. This satire was picked up by another satire site, called Landover Baptist, who quoted the Onion article as fact. A legitimate, if uninformed Baptist website, assumed Landover was a real website, and quoted again the satire originally written by the onion.
All of the sudden, claims were made that JK Rowling was corrupting the youth of North America. *sigh*. One of the many reasons why I do a ton of research on everything I find interesting. It's bullcrap like this that leads people to believe that, on the average, a person swallows seven spiders in her sleep in a lifetime. 
