Conjunction junction, what's your function?

This is for sache. I just read this on customers_suck

So i finish with my alterations, which pretty much cut their obit in half and excluded the picture.

Sis1: Wow...
Sis3: why did you cross out this comma?
Me: [considering I had done this over and over for people now for several months, it was second nature to just go ahead and alter it like I was really fixing to enter it in to the computer] Excuse me?
Sis3: This comma, and that comma, and, well good lord! Someone needs to teach you how to write!
Me: *pause* Those commas are gramtically(sp) incorrect...
sis3: *laugh* Right, right, hon, I have a degree in English. I think I know what I'm talking about.
Me: MLA or APA?
Sis3: ...what?
Me: If you have a degree in English you no doubt use MLA format. However, newspapers work a little differently. We use APA format because MLA makes us use to much space. APA has different rules about where commas are necessary and other funthings like that. If you want, I can go get our APA handbook.
sis3: *stares furiously at the obit like she would change the commas with her mind*
sis2: Well, this just won't do. I guess we'll have to go with the paid obit. How do we do that?
Sis3: You said we could put anything in a paid obit.
Me: yes
sis3: Well I want commas here.
Me: I can't do that. Some editting will still take place to make it grammatically correct.
sis3: But I want these commas.
Me: ...Tell you what. I'll ask if I can keep these commas where they are but I'm pretty sure the answer will be no. But I'll try. However, if you see this obit without the commas, it was because I was unsuccessful and policy won. Is that ok?
Sis3: I guess that'll do.

Taken from this story.

Something wicked this way comes.

Soooo, I finished rereading HP:OOTP just now at midnight, so my memory's refreshed and I'm finally ready to read the new book.

( Ramblings - cut so sache won't have to look at it ;P )

I'm sure it goes without saying that anyone who comments HBP spoilers on this entry will earn my undying eternal hatred for all time. But I'm saying it anyway. :P So far I've managed to remain untainted by spoilers of any kind despite the very tempting threads floating around ASMR. Finally it'll be my turn to read the thing - once I get done with work. -_-

Now I'm wondering what the heck I'm going to do during the second half of my shift, until I can get home and finally OPEN the new copy of HP:HBP currently sitting forlorn and unread on my coffee table. At least I've got the "awww" fuzzy feeling that's come from the following scene during both reads:

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I don't much care for HP:OOTP, but I've always quite loved that bit. Such a sensitive ending to such a heavy chapter.

BTW, I snatched an icon from potterpuffs. Everyone's always going on about making sure you give credit when you use icons you take from places...how exactly do you do that? Can you set an ALT tag or something? *be's a n00b*

EDIT 4:55 AM: Lord, I must be really tired. I didn't notice until just now I had a typo in my quote from OOTP - "say" instead of "saw." I thought this was really weird since I'd reread this entry several times already and never noticed, and Y and W aren't anywhere close to each other on the keyboard. Anyway, I corrected it, surveyed the entry with satisfaction, and saved it - only to discover upon returning to my main journal page that I had changed the erroneous and inexplicable Y into an even more erroneous and inexplicable Q.

I need to go home. x_x