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Don't kill Arthur Weasley!
While I was out for a walk last week I passed the textbook store in town where I had reserved my copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I dropped in to ask about their Harry Potter festivities, because I could remember being told that they were opening sometime before midnight, but I couldn't remember the exact time. I asked the woman behind the counter what time they were opening for Harry Potter and she said, "11:45. 11:40. Half an hour before midnight." I don't know if she was just making it up as she went along, if she kept pushing the time back based on the surprise and disappointment on my face, or if she just didn't know how to tell time and her next try was going to be 13:88.
So let it be known that at 11:45, 11:40, 11:30 or maybe 13:88 tomorrow night, I will be in line. Since this is a small town and this is really more of a textbook store than a real bookstore, I may be the only one in that line. Can it still be called a line? Maybe I should bring a friend to make it more line-y.
I had briefly considered walking uptown and back to get my book, as it is good exercise and I like steps, but then it occurred to me that 13:88am in the middle of summer (when the town is mostly empty) might not be the best time to go wandering around, especially since I would probably be buried in the book, straining and squinting to read by the streetlights and then I'd get hit by a train and it wouldn't even be the Hogwarts Express. So driving it is, alas.
I shall drive home, brew up a pot of tea and gather my snacks (this year I am thinking Things Spread On Crackers will be nice) and read until I can read no more. I may need a nap tomorrow after work to prepare myself.
Anyway, yippee skippy - it's almost here! What are your big Harry Potter plans?
srah - Thursday, 19 July 2007 - 8:46 AM
Tags: books, harry potter, harry potter and the deathly hallows, walking
Comments (9)
cdp - July 19, 2007 - 9:19 AM - ℓ
I keep meaning to check out this "henry porter" thing. I'll have to record it on the vcr....
sarah - July 19, 2007 - 10:50 AM - ℓ
um, we're going to a trek convention the next morning, so can't stay up that late. k's gonna swing by the borders on the way to the convention saturday morning. does that make us more or less lame than the people who are standing in line at 13:88 the night before?
Jamie - July 19, 2007 - 1:46 PM - ℓ
My plans right now are praying very intensely for our postman to be clever and sensible enough to leave the book at our neighbors or on our doormat or whatever and not (Please-God-No) take it back to the post office where I won't be able to freaking get it until Monday morning. I thought I had changed the delivery address to the parcel station where I can get my parcels whenever I want, but alas I haven't. So it's going to be delivered on Saturday morning when I will still be in Cracow. Or on the plane. Or on the way from the airport to our apartment. But I most certainly won't be home. GAAAAAA!
Cheryl - July 20, 2007 - 8:17 AM - ℓ
Your plans sound fun. I am not a Harry Potter person, but it would be fun to have it all planned out with snacks and everything.
I'm probably the only person I know who won't be doing something Harry Potterish. I should have come to visit you and stand in the line with you!