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Alice Griffiths picture! Perhaps its unnecessary to post it, but link and password to my photobucket up above nonetheless.

Alice hasn't been around much for the past two chapters, and she won't be in the next two either, but she returns triumphantly (lol) in Chapter 28. Frank, Kingsley, the mysterious Sam, and a whole lot of canon mini characters will show up there, too. 

I know, you probably want me to shut up and get writing, so I'll do that. Enjoy the picture, and remember to be nice, because drawing isn't my thing. Side note: roughly twenty five pages of Chapter 26 are finished =)  

I'm not a lazy wench.

Wrote twelve pages of Chapter 26 and six pages of Chapter 27 today. YAY me.

The reason I'm even bothering to record this is to prove that I'm not a lazy wench, and also to motivate myself. And also to make me feel good about myself, because Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday are my slave days... where I have lots of school and lots of work and not so lots of sleep, and I can guarantee I won't get much of anything done.

Fun fact--I'm working on Chapter 26 right now, and there were a total of 26 chapters in my last mammoth WIP, "Shaken, Not Stirred." And, because I enjoyed writing that story so much--flawed as it undoubtedly is--I'm putting little references to it in Chapter 26 of LAT. Cheese and rice, I'm conceited. =D.

Cheese and rice sound really gross together.

Eh

Okay, so one of you lovely reviewers of LAT suggested this, and I thought it was a good idea, so here it is. This is just a place where I can tell anyone who cares why exactly I am taking so long to update at any given moment. But there might be other stuff here, too-- like, I don't know, things that make me giggle fiendishly as I write them, and tidbits about what's to come in the future of Life and Times.

For instance, right now, I am an awful person because I have only written TWO scenes for Chapter 26, "The Wedding." One of them is super adorable, though.

In case you did NOT guess, the chapter centers around Petunia's wedding. So, Lily will be dealing with that unhappy prospect, Marlene will be moping because of Prudence Bloody Daly, and the Marauders will be figuring things out. So that's always fun. Also, there will be chicanery and gallivanting, which is always fun. Okay, not so much with the chicanery, but I like the word.

Actually, Chapter 26 is kind of a hard chapter to spoil for, because it's all very broad and conceptual. Chapter 27 is more fun. There's a make out scene that earns the story its rating. And for all of you who cagily remember that I said Carlotta would be returning in Chapter 27... fear not. She is not involved in the make-out scene to which I refer. But she will be there, being all Carlotta-y. Alright, I'm rambling. I shouldn't be allowed to talk about myself.