I completely understand, although I've finished readaction 2. Woo hoo! Apparently my fairy name is:

Hex Elftree

She is a cheerful sprite.
She lives in places hexed and tainted by black magic.
She is only seen when the first leaves fall from the trees.
She wears black feathers and rose petals. She has delicate green wings like a cicada.

and my vampire name is:

The Great Archives determine you to have gone by the identity:
Rani of Blood
Known in some parts of the world as:
Nuit of The Storm Riders
The Great Archives Record:
The Riders come with the rain clouds, you will hear the thunder of their hooves in the sky.

Ummm, what is it with the fat guy?

My group's ethical dilemma for Research. We're supposed to ponder and discuss. (Ha!) The issue:

"A trolley is hurtling down a track towards five people. You are on a bridge under which it will pass, and you can stop it by dropping a heavy weight in front of it. As it happens, there is a very fat man next to you - your only way to stop the trolley is to push him over the bridge and onto the track, killing him to save five. Should you proceed?"

My reaction is that 1) I'm not strong enough to throw him over the bridge and 2) I don't think I could cold-bloodedly kill him, even to save five other people. But I might ask him if he'd consider jumping, himself, to save the others. Which I'm sure would go over really well. :D The variation on the question is, of course, that you merely switch the track the trolley runs on, knowing as you do so that there's one person, instead of five, tied to that alternate track. Oddly enough, I might consider doing that. If I didn't go all Hamlet on the situation and start pondering "Yes, but what if that one person will cure cancer?" and then, "But what if one of the other five people will cure cancer?" followed by, "But what if that one person is a serial killer?" and, "Maybe the other five people are KKK members...." 'Tis a quandry. The easiest thing is, of course, to simply do nothing. Thus abdicating responsibility for the situation---and the accompanying guilt---but I'm inclined to think that may be an unethical decision in and of itself.

I dunno. It's fun to ponder, but I hate that I'm doing the pondering for *Her* class. Grrr....

...And nifty names, by the way. We're, like, totally Storm Rider sisters! Does this mean "storm rider" is really a secret name for librarians?

...Riders on the stoooorm... ::hums:: ...riders on the stoooorm.... la-la-lala ...into this house we're born...into this world we're thrown....

That is *so* the librarian theme song now.

Your fairy is called Bramble Icefly
She is a bone chilling bringer of justice for the vulnerable.
She lives in leafy dells and bluebell glades.
She is only seen at midday under a quiet, cloudless sky.
She wears bluebell-blue dresses. She has icy blue butterfly wings.

The Great Archives determine you to have gone by the identity:
Goddess of Moldovia
Known in some parts of the world as:
Lodemai of The Vile
The Great Archives Record:
Vile, foul, filthy and greedy: this creature knows nothing of light.

What a nice combo! Both delightfully reminiscent of your Ambella the Red alterego. I especially like how it inserts "the Vile" into everything....

This reminds me...here's a pic of me and several others at the hp release night. I don't have any more pics posted of us - mainly because I'm slack but currently also because my old hard drive died a horrid death and took all my photos with it. With luck, my dad will be able to resurrect them.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lissamonster/862756169/

Oh, how sad! I hope he'll be able to resurrect them, too. That's a great photo. I'd love to be able to see what other zany moments you captured from our Night o' Chaos. (That was so much fun. I'm sad there aren't any more HP release parties to go to....)