Grumpy!Neil/Q. about the movie

[Neil Ward]

Hi all...

I thought I'd steal that trendy, fanfic-style heading to give the 
impression that I know all the latest goss on the latest chapters of 
SoB, BYOB, PTO! and BBQ [Any resemblance to real fanfiction title 
acronyms is purely coincidental. PS: No horses were hurt in the 
writing of this post].

I managed to download the latest HP movie trailer this morning and 
sat watching it repeatedly in an attempt to cheer myself up. It 
worked!  Psychologically, it was a bit like stuffing down a whole 
packet of biscuits instead of "being good" and having just the one 
(have you seen my pneumatic waistline?).  Who wants to be good, 
anyway?  Even Dumbledore has that latent evil streak I used to talk 
about...

I had a funny week this week.  On Monday, at work, I bent over to 
pick up a letter from the floor and split my suit trousers straight 
up the back.  My best suit, too.  My trusty assistant had to run to 
the nearest clothes shop to pick me up a new garment.  She giggled 
all the way there and back, and continued to laugh like a schoolgirl 
every she looked at me slopping round the office in the XXL tracky 
bottoms she'd bought me.  

The rest of the week has consisted of working late, having a 
headache, getting home very late, falling asleep on the sofa, and 
waking up at 5am to the sounds of a repeat of 'Karaoke Challenge' on 
Challenge TV. If I had the courage, the regular, subliminal exposure 
to bad singing might inspire me to pop to my local pub tonight and 
give them my rave version of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow".  I'm a 
coward though...

You can tell I'm at a loose end, can't you?

Question:  To those of you planning to see the HP movie.  Would you 
rather go:

(a) alone, because you want to annotate a copy of the film script you 
bought on e-Bay for 378 dollars?;

(b) with other HP fans, because you can share the experience and show 
off your humungous knowledge to the appreciative people sitting in 
the seats around you?;

(c) with friends or relatives who will have to be bribed with a large 
pizza and several pints and dragged into the cinema by their hair?

Neil    
Flagging Ford Anglia