January 11 - early evening

The last week has been more chaotic than ever - and yes, that is possible. The chief bit of strangeness is that Ginny has found someone for me who she says balances me. Because she is my best friend and I have run out of excuses to say no to her matchmaking schemes, I agreed to go out with the man tonight on one condition, which is that I will be nowhere near a Chinese restaurant. G complied, of course - in fact, she says that Edgar (the man I'm going out with tonight) doesn't like Chinese food. That can only be a good sign.

Will write after I get back - I have forty-five minutes to get decent...

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January 12 - ridiculously early in the morning

My date actually went quite well, at least the first part of it did. Edgar Gibbon is a nice, intelligent person, and I might possibly like him. We went to an Italian restaurant, which was quite nice, and it was an enjoyable evening... until we left the restaurant.

What happened was this - unbeknowest to the pair of us, a group of pyromaniacs were testing fireworks in the parking lot. Because this is my life, and weird things frequently happen in my life, it couldn't be just a random pack of Muggle pyros. No, it was that brother of G's, the one with the shop, and he was every kind of ticked-off when I realized who it was and (in a moment that would've made G proud) started snapping at him and the other people in his group. This, of course, is where poor planning on the part of the pyros turned the evening into a nightmare. All their fireworks - in other words, enough explosives to blow up a building - were in a stack right against the outer wall of the restaurant. You can figure out the rest - one of them had bad aim, and next thing anyone knew, KABOOM!!!!! The entire wall of the restaurant collapsed, and (because this was in a parking lot) the explosion did in two delivery vans. Needless to say, I am now not allowed within 100 meters of that restaurant, even though none of that was my doing. G is going to get it when she hears about this...

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A/N: a big thanks goes to yellow14, who wanted to see some of the matchmaking attempts in action. Suggestions are always welcome, especially now that I have no idea what I'm doing with this project. Thanks for reading, and please press the pretty button in the center that says 'review'.