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Advice: When/If you see Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, stay until the end of the credits!

There were 21 of us in the end. Twenty-one people! Before the movie started, there was an advertisement for booking your own screening of the movie. We could almost have justified it. The Major Street household came to the showing after all. Several of the first year Centre MAs came. My advisor and his daughter were there, as was a friend from my department to whom I had made the promise that yes, it is possible to have a pleasant evening in a pub and not come out smelling of smoke afterwards. irvinl and C. and Anna and Aleta, and Christopher and Saffy were there. Purely by accident, we even ended up sitting right next to Sara Jane, the woman I met at the costume party on Halloween and saw again the next day at the LOTR Q&A, along with her brother. Afterwards, 8 of us loitered around and went out for a pleasant evening of drinks at a pub, and indeed, did not smell of smoke afterwards; although the pub closed early when their computer system broke down on them.

The movie itself was fun. ( Movie Spoilers... probably no big deal if you've read the book... )

It's snowing here and a bit of it is sticking. In Venice, the aqua alta was impressively high today - my mother sent photographs.

I've warmed up enough now, and I think I won't bother going outside again today. Instead, I'll stay up, hopefully upload my site to the new host, and catch up on sorting through pieces of paper and the like.

Update: There's an even layer of white snow coating the world outside my windows, making the night brighter than it has been lately. The snow really did stick. I'm guessing there's at least an inch of it.