Only a few hours to go...

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...till Bloomsubury has this meeting of theirs and MAYBE something 
substantial comes out of this "analysts believe yadda yadda release 
date etc. etc." business.  I take Bloomsbury's extremely recent 
decision to change "In a perfect world, July 2002" to "In a perfect 
world, early autumn 2002" on their webpage as an indication of what 
they will say tomorrow (actually, it's 2 a.m. today Eastern as I 
write this and 7 or 8 a.m. in England, so I guess I mean today, not 
tomorrow).  I'll plump for September sometime, but I hope a miracle 
will happen and they'll say summer as these "analysts" expect.  The 
best part is that when I wake up tomorrow around 10 or 11 (I love 
Spring Break!), I will know whether this meeting said anything worth 
hearing about OotP's release date (assuming the meeting is during 
business hours).  I pray that it does, and if anyone reads this in 
time in America, sweet dreams.  As for you who are elsewhere in the 
world (like much of Europe), I hope Bloomsbury puts the info out 
early in the day.  I relish my not having to sit at the computer and 
refresh and refresh and refresh on the HPfGU-Announcements page and 
am sorry some of you don't have the same opportunity.

I wonder at almost everyone's not mentioning tomorrow's possible 
release date info.  Is it that we're collectively holding our 
breath?  Is it that we're afraid we'll jinx it if we say anything?  
Or am I the only one sitting here with baited breath?  I'd actually 
like an answer to that last part.  Why has it been so quiet around 
here about that particularly?  Is it that everyone is just resigned 
to wait and talking doesn't help?  And if the info is released 
tomorrow, will we flood in discussion for a day or two and then just 
start sitting and waiting (this time with an end in sight)?  I hope 
tomorrow, no, today (and anyone who would care to respond to the 
above questions) brings a lot of answers, but mostly I hope we can 
finally settle on some sort of official date to start counting 
towards.  I hope you all are doing well, and again, sweet dreams or 
lots of patience to those who need it as far as tomorrow's (damn) 
today's info is concerned.  Then again, we've all had to have 
patience for approaching two years (except those of us who joined the 
party late), so I guess I'll just wish for more of it for all of us.  
Good luck getting to tomorrow (damn!), that is to say, getting 
through today.

Devin