Snippets

So, yeah. I went to the party at Borders. (If I had known that U of O was having a Potter Party, I would have gone there.) Still, lots of cool people went. We had dinner first with fearga and K, as well as vesta_aurelia at Ambrosia, and that was lovely and fun. The food was excellent, and all of us had dessert (of course). I changed my mind about going as Ginny and decided to go as Tonks instead. Much more fun with the wardrobe. I meant to have alysaundre take pictures, but that didn't work out.

I'm actually a good deal more excited about this than I thought I would be. Harry Potter phenomenon aside, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy around my solar plexus to realize that all of this hype is happening about a book. Books are awesome. I just wish other books (like anything by Terry Pratchett, ahem ahem) got this kind of hype here in the states.

The Potter Party was fun, but very, very warm. I do not believe there should be that many people in one building. (The fire marshal agreed with me. There were repeated warnings that people should vacate the building immediately after collecting their books, and also that people should get the hell out of the aisles (my words, not theirs) while they were carting the books in because the book pallets were "very heavy and hard to stop.")

We met up with a bunch of lovely people, took over the English History corner where it was nice and quiet, and chatted and read and knitted as we wished until it was time to go and get our books. Then we went home. It was the quietest trip I've ever been on--fearga and vesta_aurelia started reading immediately. I managed to read up to "Kreacher's Tale" before I fell fast asleep at about 3:30 in the morning.

I finished reading the book on Saturday. I'm not going to talk about it here, but fearga is setting up a HP Discussion filter. I will say that I believe that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows is far and away the best book in the entire series. I was not disappointed. As soon as I finished, I passed the book to alysaundre and said, "Book. Read. Now." Then vesta_aurelia and I retreated to my office to discuss the book without spoiling it for alysaundre.

We had lunch with Trudy (who has an LJ but I don't know which one it is), and that was fun. Fondue for dinner. We watched Animaniacs and then stumbled off to bed.

I don't know what we're doing today. I should be doing some homework, but that will honestly only take me about ten minutes. (I do have to do it today, however, and I keep putting it off.) I suspect that today will be pretty relaxed.

Time for coffee!

Yarrrrrrrr! It be Talk Like a Pirate Day (in case ye hadn't noticed). Be sure to enjoy it, me hearties! I be going to the dump this day to clean out the bilges. Yeccchhh. A pirate's work never be done, arrr.

Sadly, it has come to me attention that me crew has better hats than I. This must be remedied at the earliest opportunity, yarr and other salty seadog exclamations. Aye.

I finished Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince last night. Let me just say this: I guessed right. I am mighty. *does a woogie dance of triumph* In other news, I'm looking forward to the next book, but I am not looking forward to the hype. Since the next book is the last, the hype is going to be horrific. I may have to go and hide in a cave for about six months beforehand.

I have many theories regarding the future events of Harry Potter's adventures:
( It's Spoileriffic! )

All in all, I would say that this is probably the best-written Harry Potter book thus far. It's much, much better than Order of the Phoenix. I was highly impressed. I don't believe that J.K. Rowling is OMG THE BEST WRITER IN THE WORLD!!!!, but I still finished the book and felt quite satisfied. I can see why many fans wangsted, but I believe that their wangst was unnecessary and a result of the mistaken belief that authors should do everything that their fans say they should. Everything that happened was, in my opinion, necessary to the story. Harry's growing up, and so are his friends. Nothing lasts forever. I love how the characters are changing and growing as the story progresses. It makes things more interesting.

That's pretty much what I have to say about that. Now, it's time to fold clothes. In a piratey way, of course. Arrrrr...

EDIT: ARRRRR!



That be me, all right. YARRRRR!