Put Some FUN in "DysFUNctional"

Nuggets of news from the recliner. . .

• Because I'm sure you want to know: It's snowing here for the first time this winter. Hate the stuff.

• Prompt-claiming has begun at dysfuncentine, an anti-Valentine's Day fest for stories about dysfunctional relationships. The prompts are PRIME, and I'm not just saying this because I had a manic moment (okay, a manic hour) and posted 19 of them. There are nearly 140 in total, and many feature the OLSB and their old-man friends.

• Mark your calendars -- Sign-ups for the incomparable hp_beholder begin on January 26.

• Maggie Alert! Rumor has it that Maggie Smith is going to be in the next James Bond movie, Skyfall, along with Ralph Fiennes, Helen McCrory, and yes. . .Judi Dench.

• Tomorrow will be a madly busy day, but I have Saturday completely free. That's right -- nothing that I absolutely must do. No papers to grade yet, no major reading to do, and I've decided that everything else can be put off. The uncleaned closets and the unwritten professional articles have been uncleaned and unwritten for this long, so there's no reason they can't just wait a little longer. What am I going to do with my day off? Well, expect some LJ/DW spam, dears.